Sams teach yourself macromedia flash 5

24 proven one-hour lessons

In just 24 lessons of one hour or less, you will be up and running with Macromedia Flash 5. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson builds upon the previous one, allowing you to leam the essentials of Flash from the ground up.

Tips point out shortcuts and solutions

Notes clarify concepts and procedures in a straightforward manner

Cautions help you avoid common pitfalls

Learn how to...

• Create, optimize, and export dynamic animated movies for the Web, disks, or CD
  
• Use Flash 5s advanced drawing techniques, including the new Bézier pen drawing tool
  
• Animate using time-tested techniques and Flash's special "tweening" features
  
• Program with Flash's ActionScripting to create interactive movies
  
• Create complex Button, Graphic, and Movie Clip symbols and use them over and over without adding to file size
  
• Use the Library to organize and store symbols and keep file sizes small
  
• Import existing graphics from Freehand, Illustrator'l, and PhotoshopO
  
• Create your own Shared Libraries for management of large projects and team environments
  
• Manipulate pre-programmed Smart Clips and make your own for advanced interactivity
  

Contents at a Glance

• Introduction
  
• Part I Assembling the Graphics You'll Animate in Flash
  
• Part II Animating in Flash
  
• Part III Adding Interactivity and Advanced Animation
  
• Part IV Putting It All Together for the Web
  
• Appendixes
  
• Glossary
  
• Index