Foundation

By: Sham Bhangal, Kristian Besley

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Foundation Flash 8 is the book you need if you're looking for a solid foundation in Flash 8 Basic and Flash 8 Professional.

Thousands upon thousands of designers have already learned from its previous editions and it's easy to understand why.

The fourth edition of friends of ED's legendary beginner Flash book, Foundation Flash 8 uses a series of structured exercises and detailed discussions to help you start your exploration of Flash. The detailed tutorial style will ensure that you retain the knowledge you gain and are able to draw upon it throughout your Flash career. Foundation Flash 8 features a running case study that evolves into a fully-functional Flash website as you work through the tutorials, so you'll immediately see everything that you learn being used in a practical project.

This book focuses on the core skills that you need to get started working with Flash 8: understanding the interface, becoming familiar with the creative tools and their capabilities, grasping the relationships between the different components that make up a Flash movie, and getting insight into how to put all the pieces together to create your own Flash-based website.

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About the Authors	p. xiv
About the Technical Reviewer	p. xv
About the Cover Image Designer	p. xvi
Introduction	p. xvii
Flash-the big picture	p. xviii
What's significant about Flash 8	p. xx
Our aims and philosophy in this book	p. xxi
How to use this book	p. xxii
Flash Movie Essentials	p. 1
The authoring environment	p. 2
The stage	p. 5
The work area	p. 6
The Properties panel	p. 6
The size of the stage	p. 7
The movie's background color	p. 9
Default movie settings	p. 10
The Timeline	p. 10
Frames	p. 11
The playhead	p. 11
Keyframes	p. 14
Animation	p. 15
Layers	p. 21
Layer modes	p. 23
Scenes	p. 25
The Movie Explorer	p. 26
Summary	p. 27
The Flash Tools Panel	p. 29
The Tools panel	p. 30
The Selection tool	p. 31
The Zoom tool	p. 38
The Hand tool	p. 39
The Tools panel's drawing and modification tools	p. 39
The Rectangle tool	p. 39
The Oval tool	p. 41
The Line tool	p. 43
The Paint Bucket tool	p. 48
The Ink Bottle tool	p. 49
The Eyedropper tool	p. 49
The PolyStar tool	p. 50
The Pencil tool	p. 51
The Brush tool	p. 52
The Eraser tool	p. 55
The Text tool	p. 55
The Free Transform tool	p. 58
The Pen tool	p. 63
Bezier curves	p. 63
The Subselect tool	p. 64
Beziers and animation	p. 65
Case study	p. 66
Summary	p. 69
Flash Symbols and Libraries	p. 71
Symbol essentials	p. 72
Symbol types	p. 73
Graphic symbols	p. 73
Modifying symbols	p. 79
Working with multiple Libraries	p. 81
Button symbols	p. 83
Button states	p. 84
Movie clip symbols	p. 87
Movie clips and the main Timeline	p. 89
Sharing symbols	p. 90
Case study	p. 92
Summary	p. 94
Managing Content	p. 97
Grouped objects	p. 98
Symbols within symbols	p. 100
Snap Align	p. 105
The grid	p. 108
Rulers and guides	p. 110
Alignment	p. 112
Align panel	p. 112
Stacking order	p. 117
Distribute to Layers option	p. 121
Layer folders	p. 122
History panel	p. 123
Case study	p. 126
Summary	p. 129
Working with Color and Images	p. 131
Color primer	p. 132
Custom colors	p. 133
Persistent custom colors	p. 138
Gradient color	p. 140
Making the gradient	p. 141
Using light and shade with gradients	p. 144
Applying gradients to objects and modifying them	p. 146
Overflowing fills	p. 151
Locking fills	p. 153
Bitmaps	p. 154
Using bitmap images in Flash	p. 154
Tracing bitmaps	p. 158
Optimizing bitmaps	p. 159
GIF files	p. 160
Understanding transparent GIFs	p. 160
Understanding animated GIFs	p. 161
JPEG files	p. 162
Fireworks files	p. 164
Importing vector images into Flash	p. 165
Importing FreeHand files into Flash	p. 165
Importing PDF documents into Flash	p. 166
Vector clip art	p. 168
Fonts and typefaces	p. 169
Working with device fonts	p. 169
Working with text	p. 170
Case study	p. 170
Summary	p. 173
Motion Tweening	p. 175
Animation revisited	p. 176
Motion tweens	p. 177
Scaling objects in motion tweens	p. 179
Easing	p. 181
Options for editing your animations	p. 186
Using onion skins	p. 186
Editing multiple frames	p. 188
Motion tween effects	p. 189
Color change animations	p. 191
Motion guides	p. 193
Case study	p. 200
Summary	p. 205
Shape Tweening	p. 207
Shape tweens	p. 208
How shape tweens work	p. 208
Irregular shapes	p. 210
Common tweening text effects	p. 212
Natural-looking tweens	p. 215
Tweens with color	p. 216
Shape tween modifiers	p. 217
Shape hints	p. 217
Case study	p. 221
Open sequence	p. 225
Close sequence	p. 225
Summary	p. 225
Masks and Masking	p. 225
What is a mask?	p. 228
Animated masks and masking multiple layers	p. 235
Using masks with text	p. 237
A text-shaped mask	p. 238
Case study	p. 241
Summary	p. 246
Advanced Animation, Effects, and Commands	p. 249
Timeline effects	p. 250
Other kinds of timeline effects	p. 256
Assistants	p. 256
Effects	p. 256
Transform/transition	p. 256
Filters	p. 258
Blend modes	p. 268
Nested blend modes	p. 271
Layer blending	p. 271
Alpha blending	p. 272
Erase blends	p. 273
Automated commands	p. 274
Reacquainting yourself with the History panel	p. 274
Creating a reusable command	p. 277
Behaviors	p. 278
Interactivity	p. 279
Events and event handlers	p. 279
Buttons as interactive elements	p. 280
Symbols on their own do not create interactivity	p. 280
Movie clips and buttons only behave on a timeline	p. 281
Creating animated buttons	p. 284
Creating buttons that talk	p. 285
The features of behaviors	p. 286
Attaching behaviors to frames and buttons	p. 289
Case study	p. 292
Summary	p. 298
Actions and Interactions	p. 301
ActionScript vs. behaviors	p. 302
Scripts, programs, and code-it's all Geek/Greek to me	p. 303
Programming and scripting	p. 303
Scripting and animation	p. 304
Understanding scripting	p. 304
Syntax	p. 304
End each line with a semicolon	p. 305
The object, method, and argument	p. 305
The code block	p. 306
Camel case	p. 307
Indenting	p. 307
Use code blocks often	p. 307
The Flash scripting environment	p. 308
Writing your first script	p. 308
Linking your movie to a URL	p. 313
Case study	p. 316
Summary	p. 325
Intelligent Actions	p. 327
The power of ActionScript	p. 328
Dot notation	p. 333
Teaching your movie to think for itself	p. 341
Variables	p. 342
Conditional statements	p. 344
Case study	p. 347
Summary	p. 351
Multimedia: Sound and Video	p. 353
Sound on the Web	p. 354
Flash and MP3	p. 355
Creating sound	p. 355
Importing and exporting sound with Flash	p. 356
Using sound in Flash	p. 360
Attaching sounds to the Timeline	p. 360
Flash sound issues	p. 363
Integrating sound	p. 364
Video on the Web	p. 370
Creating video	p. 371
Flash-friendly formats	p. 372
Using video with Flash	p. 372
Editing video clips in Flash	p. 377
Case study	p. 385
Importing and placing the videos	p. 386
Summary	p. 388
Optimizing	p. 391
Flash and the Internet	p. 392
The Internet	p. 392
The World Wide Web	p. 393
Bandwidth	p. 393
The end user-your audience	p. 394
Streaming	p. 395
The Bandwidth Profiler	p. 396
Optimizing and fine-tuning Flash movies	p. 401
Structure	p. 402
Use the right components in your movie	p. 402
Optimizing elements	p. 403
Optimizing tricks and tips	p. 404
Loading multimedia on demand	p. 405
Loading video files, MP3s, and JPEGs	p. 407
Video	p. 407
JPEG and PNG	p. 408
MP3	p. 410
Last-minute checks	p. 410
Case study	p. 410
Summary	p. 413
Publishing	p. 415
Web formats	p. 416
Flash	p. 416
HTML	p. 417
Animated GIFs	p. 418
Quick Time	p. 418
Putting on the show	p. 418
Flash file publishing options	p. 425
HTML file publishing options	p. 426
GIF, JPEG, and PNG	p. 428
Quick Time movies	p. 428
Projector files	p. 429
Uploading your files to the host server	p. 432
Case study	p. 433
Summary	p. 434
Intermediate ActionScript, Part 1	p. 437
Planning your complex ActionScript: A practical overview	p. 438
Defining a problem	p. 438
Breaking down the Smiler problem	p. 439
Basic input and output	p. 441
Referencing paths with dot notation	p. 445
Many movie clips, many variables	p. 448
Dynamic animation	p. 454
Creating advanced animation communication schemes	p. 461
Making Smiler age-sensitive	p. 464
Case study	p. 468
Summary	p. 470
Intermediate ActionScript, Part 2	p. 473
Making coffee	p. 474
To make a cup of Cafe au Lait (coffee with milk) and sugar	p. 474
A bottom-up cup of coffee	p. 474
Creating the super class	p. 477
Reviewing the solution	p. 480
Flash and the built-in classes	p. 482
A simple mouse trail	p. 483
Putting it all together	p. 488
Possible improvements and modifications to your game	p. 502
Summary	p. 503
High-Level Site Design	p. 505
The principles of good design	p. 506
File structure and file size	p. 506
Preloaders	p. 507
Basic: Timeline-based loader	p. 507
Intermediate: ActionScript-based loader	p. 507
Intros	p. 508
Tailoring your designs	p. 508
Timeframe	p. 508
Style	p. 508
Content	p. 508
Navigation	p. 508
Case study 1: online showcase	p. 509
Storyboarding	p. 509
Content	p. 510
Integration	p. 511
Summary	p. 512
Case study 2: my Flash home site interface	p. 512
Random idea #1	p. 513
Random idea #2	p. 513
Integration	p. 514
Summary	p. 514
Dynamic websites	p. 515
Case study 3: a dynamic visual guestbook	p. 515
Suggested sites	p. 516
Summary	p. 517
Futurescape	p. 519
Where next?	p. 520
Using and improving your Flash skills	p. 520
Flash site design	p. 521
Flash games and toys	p. 521
Flash cartoons	p. 521
Using Flash with other software	p. 521
3D in Flash	p. 522
AdvancedAction Script-based Flash interface designs	p. 522
Dynamic content	p. 522
XML	p. 522
Starting a career in Flash	p. 523
HTML	p. 523
Graphic design	p. 523
Getting in	p. 523
Flash farewell-for now	p. 524
Index	p. 527
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