- Animating with the New Flash Professional 8 Filters
- Jun 2, 2006
- Flash Professional 8 now includes a cool collection of image-compositing effects called blending modes and image special effects called filters. Join James Gonzalez on a hands-on journey of animating the new filters to create sophisticated, eye-catching graphic effects.
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- Designing the Obvious: The Ongoing Mission of Good Design
- May 19, 2006
- Concluding his series, Robert Hoekman, Jr. provides some practical suggestions on how to implement good design in your software and/or site, despite the sometimes frustrating process of working with other people in everyday business life.
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- How to Use the XPathAPI in Flash
- Apr 7, 2006
- Flash 8 has delivered the ability to do simple searches for node names and attribute values in an XML file with its new XPathAPI class. Kris Hadlock shows how to use the XPathAPI in Flash 8 to simplify and give power to your XML parsing.
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- Creating a Video with Synchronized Captions in Macromedia Flash 8
- Mar 3, 2006
- The projects in this chapter are the most universally practical projects in a book full of practical projects! At the core, you’ll build text captions for video content. You’ll also learn to create any kind of synchronization.
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- Introducing Fireworks 8: New Features and Best Practices
- Dec 30, 2005
- This chapter gives you a rundown of Macromedia Fireworks 8, with a focus on the new features added to this edition. Novices and experts alike will find this chapter useful as they explore the new version of Fireworks.
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- Importing Graphics into Flash
- Nov 23, 2005
- Ideally, you should create all of the graphics you use in a Flash animation in Flash. Sometimes, though, that just isn't practical. This chapter will help you prepare for that eventuality by teaching you how to import graphics into Flash from some other program.
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- Creating Graphics in Flash
- Nov 11, 2005
- This chapter provides a good introduction to the toolbar, how to draw shapes, and how to work with them on the stage. Like nearly everything else Flash related, the more you work with them, the more comfortable they will become. Get started here in this sample chapter.
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- Getting Started: Adding Text, Lists, and Previewing in the Browser in Dreamweaver 8
- Nov 11, 2005
- At its most basic, a web page is simply a text document that has been placed on the web. This chapter helps you get started building a webpage in Dreamweaver 8 by working with options for the most basic element of a web page: the text.
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- Building a Web Page in Dreamweaver 8
- Nov 4, 2005
- Building web pages in Dreamweaver is extremely intuitive and quick to pick up. Flanked by key panels and inspectors, building web pages in Dreamweaver is merely a matter of dragging and dropping objects onto the development environment and formatting attributes using the Properties Inspector, the Tag Inspector, and so on. This chapter covers the most common types of links and how to customize them using Dreamweaver 8.
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- Using Layers in Dreamweaver
- Jan 7, 2005
- Layers offer a great way to design pages, especially with the inclusion of the CSS standards. Find out how in this sample chapter.
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- Dreamweaver MX 2004 Site Management
- Oct 15, 2004
- Dreamweaver is best known as a web design tool, but it can also be a great tool for website management. Learn about the tools built into Dreamweaver for just this purpose in this chapter from Matthew Pizzi and Zak Ruvalcaba.
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- Adding ActionScript to Your Flash Animation
- Jul 16, 2004
- Bill Sanders explains how to use ActionScript to add behaviors to object-oriented animations in Flash.
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- Macromedia Studio MX: A Bird's-Eye View
- Jul 2, 2004
- Michael Hurwicz presents a high-level view of Studio MX and what each of the Studio MX programs can do.
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- Creating Graphics in Flash MX 2004
- May 21, 2004
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- Planning and Defining a Project in Studio MX 2004
- May 7, 2004
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- Importing Graphics into Flash
- Apr 30, 2004
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- Creating Graphics in Flash
- Apr 16, 2004
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- What's New in Flash MX 2004?
- Oct 24, 2003
- Unless you've been living under a rock, you know there are new versions of Flash. Matthew David tells you what is hot in the latest versions of Flash MX 2004.
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- Your First ActionScripts
- Jun 20, 2003
- Learn the basics of ActionScripts to get you started in creating movies. With this step-by-step guide, you will create two movies that will send you on your way to more complex efforts.
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- Drawing and Painting in Flash
- Apr 25, 2003
- Put down your finger paints and learn how to create your own Mona Lisa in Flash. Discover how to use vector graphics, drawing tools, layout aids, masks, and more.
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