| If you’re a Web designer, Macromedia Flash can help you create interactive effects that’ll reel in site visitors–and keep them coming back for more. Using lots of example movies, clear step-by-step instructions, and 32 pages of vivid color illustrations, Gurdy Leete and Ellen Finkelstein walk you through 50 of today’s coolest, fastest, "stickiest" Flash techniques, from amazing 2D and 3D animations and text effects to astonishing user interfaces and mini-applications.
Your Easy Guide to Macromedia Flash MX Tricks and Techniques
- Create talking cartoon heads, image morphs, and other attention-grabbing animations
- Go 3D with a rotating logo or globe
- Make text come alive with warping, swarming dots, and other effects
- Amaze viewers with interactive effects like scrolling panoramas and draggable masks
- Enhance the user experience with mouse trails, animated buttons, preloaders, and other interface techniques
- Build applications for news tickers, music keyboards, MP3 players, and more
CD-ROM includes example Adobe Photoshop Elements tryout version, Macromedia Flash MX trial version and more
About the Author Ellen Finkelstein is the author of many other computer books, including AutoCAD 2002 Bible and several guides to PowerPoint. Gurdy Leete, a professor of digital media at Maharishi University of Management, has twenty years of computer animation experience. Together, he and Ellen wrote Macromedia Flash MX For Dummies. |
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