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Adobe Flash CS3 Professional Classroom in a Book | 
 enlarge | Author: Adobe Creative Team
Publisher: Adobe Press
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
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Pages: 352
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 0321499824
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.696
EAN: 9780321499820
ASIN: 0321499824
Publication Date: May 7, 2007
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Product Description
This project-based guide from Adobe will teach readers all they need to know to create engaging interactive content with Flash CS3. Using step-by-step instructions with projects that build on the knowledge learned in each lesson, readers will learn the key elements of the Flash interface, including panels, timelines, and frames. From there, readers will learn how to work with vector and bitmap graphics; create and edit symbols; modify text and add interactivity with ActionScript 3.0; and incorporate animation, music, and sound to their projects. They'll also learn how to prepare and export their finished projects for Web and broadcast. Of course, readers will also learn how to take advantage of the new features of Flash CS3--the streamlined user interface, native support for Photoshop and Illustrator files, revamped drawing tools, new video encoding features, code editing enhancements, and much more. The companion CD provides users with all the sample files they need to complete all of the projects.
Educational instructor notes?created to help teachers plan, organize, and time their lessons?are available for this book (and for other Classroom in a Book titles) at www.peachpit.com/instructorresources.
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 Flash Step by Step Instructions from Lessons October 1, 2008
This book is straightforward and gives easy-to-follow instructions which can be applied to fun and professional-looking projects.
 Convoluted, capricious and confusing for beginners September 21, 2008
It was all going well to chapter 6 or 7 ( the code for mouseover buttons example) and my second restart. Midway through attempt three I couldn't get to the underlying rationale that they were trying to impart and went looking for an alternate. The alternate managed to show alternate ways to make resuable button object in code that made sense and wasn't a punishment designed to enforce retention by setting examples that required the same item multiple times. Are we learning concepts or muscle memory?
I'm not fit to review the correctness of the books approach just to say that it doesn't work well for me, and many others it seems. This was a poor introduction to flash cs3 that was so bad I didn't even expense the thing. Not bad enough for 1 star , I'd like to give it 1.5
 Adobe, How the Mighty have Fallen... September 14, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
My first experiences with the Adobe Classroom in a book series were several years ago with the Photoshop 7 and Illustrator 10 CIB books. They were well done, logically presented, and gave you a pretty good understanding of the basics regarding the two programs.
This year I have been unfortunate enough to buy both the Flash CS3 and Dreamweaver CS3 CIBs and they are horrible. Both purchases were a waste of money.
You will learn little from the Flash CS3 book. It is full of errors, not only in the text but in the example files on disk. The logic flow of the overall presentation is essentially non-existent. The lessons are not related to one another, so that, for instance, Lesson Six does not integrate or include concepts presented in prior lessons. And, most of the lessons incorporate material from future lessons that haven't been touched on yet, which only leads to confusion.
I am not a newbie in either web design or digital animation, with 12 and 26 years experience in those fields respectively. And this book added nothing to my learning experience for Flash. I had this book, the printed manual, a Flash 'bible', and another tutorial book, and the Flash CS3 CIB all open at once while I jumped from index to chapter to obscure references here and there, along with watching numerous tutorial videos. The Flash CS3 CIB was useless.
The bottom line is, the Flash CS3 CIB would have been better off left as a tree.
 Learn Flash in a flash July 21, 2008
The Adobe Flash CS3 Classroom in a book is an easy to understand and fast way to get up to speed with the latest version of Flash. How do I know? I had NEVER used any previous version of Flash and solely using this book, in two weeks I taught myself enough to pass the Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) certification exam!
Not for the absolute beginner June 23, 2008
I have been a graphic designer for over 14 years. I eat, breath and sleep Photoshop, Illustrator and Quark XPress, and have worked with InDesign, DreamWeaver, FireWorks, Acrobat and similar tools of the trade. I've also worked with Flash to an extent, and that's the only real reason I believe I got anything out of this book.
The problem isn't that the lessons don't illustrate real-world applications, but that the author rarely explains WHY he's instructing you to do something. Also, in many of the more advanced lessons too much has already been done for the student, especially with the construction of nested symbols for complex animations.
I had no difficulty completing the lessons successfully, but when I had finished the book and began to design an intro for a photography website, I realized that I didn't have a grasp on the principles of Flash, which should have been exactly what this book covered.
If you've had some experience with the program, I think you'll probably glean something new from it. If you've never worked in Flash before, you should probably seek a different book for your initiation.
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