Flash CS4: The Missing Manual
Posted by Admin on November 4th, 2009 at 08:08am
Unlock the power of Flash and bring gorgeous animations to life onscreen. It’s easy with Flash CS4: The Missing Manual. You’ll start creating animations in the first chapter, and will learn to produce effective, well-planned visuals that get your message across. This entertaining new edition includes a complete primer on animation, a guided tour of the program’s tools, lots of new illustrations, and more details on working with video. Beginners will learn to use the software in …
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3 Comments for Flash CS4: The Missing Manual
1. Ives | November 4th, 2009 at 9:19 am
I wish all how-to guides were written like the Missing Manual series. They really approach things from the perspective of a user who is new to the program and wants to get the meat of how it works, but isn’t familiar or comfortable with the setup and how everything in the program flows yet. I GET Flash after this book, and now it seems like ‘why didn’t someone just say it this way in the first place????’ The Actionscript section in here is GREAT for someone who is new to Actionscript. It doesn’t just dive in and bog you down in terms and theories right away, it uses several good analogies the average person can relate to in explain what Actionscript is and what it does and then gets into more details (I am sure true Actionscript junkies would say their overview was very basic, but for someone new to the language, I felt it was just right)- If you had to get one book to help you work with Flash, I would say make it this one. There are some ‘flashier’ visually more pretty books out there, but they leave alot of the explanation unsaid unfortunately. This book doesn’t
2. Woodward | November 4th, 2009 at 10:02 am
I have several books from the Missing Manual series and I have not been disappointed with anyone of them. Flash CS4: The Missing Manual, and the others in the series I purchased, have all been well written, easy to follow and loaded with information to allow for the immediate use of whatever product they are instructing the reader. I use to purchase the lynda.com series of instructional books (which is also a top-notch series), but I now prefer, and look for, the title Missing Manual whenever I need an instructional book no matter that I may have documentation (online or bookform) that came with the software. The Missing Manual truely fills in the blanks!
3. Wilona | November 4th, 2009 at 11:40 am
I don’t read any of these books! No, I study them page by page and work through all of the examples. That’s the only way to do it if you want to learn. By far and away, Flash CS4, The Missing Manual, has it all. Best organized, great examples and touches important subjects that the others do not. It’s all in there, from creating Storyboards, targeting viewers, the new Motion Editor, advanced drawing techniques, using Scenes in detail, IK bones, Sound, Video, useful Action Script examples and lots more. If you want to get up to speed then this is the book. This Flash CS4 Missing Manual is not missing anything.
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