Macromedia Flash MX 2004 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide

by Katherine Ulrich

New timeline effects and behaviors, better run-time performance (which equals faster graphics display and video playback), native support for PDF and EPS forms, a slew of workflow enhancements, an... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0321213440
• ISBN13: 9780321213440
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Peachpit Press
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent teacher

The lessons are written in plain language with an abundance of illustrations. It is one of the best computer books I have ever read. It takes a very complex program and breaks it down to simple steps.

"Flash" Made Simple

I'm a graphic design student in college and had to take a course that was heavy in flash programing. I had never really tackled flash, didn't know what it could, couldn't make sense of anything really. This was the book for our course and I can say it was well worth the money. This book is written simply, clearly, and for the beginner. It may not tell you how to do every advanced thing you can do with Flash, but it's a good place to start if you're a bit put-off by the Flash console and unsure of how to use it to tackle projects and presentations. It isn't a book you can read from page one until the last. It's a guide, a good reference book. It's divided up into chapters, the first starting with the very basics and the last chapters going through how you can get your flash work uploaded online using various technology and programs. I pretty much learned how to use flash using this book, and in just four or five weeks, I'm making web-site style presentations, animating, making video presentations and all. Every person that may be a designer or have to take-on Flash should pick up this book. It's easy to use, gives you little simple tasks you can do and breaks them down into numbered steps. It's not very wordy, and the chapters often times contains a little extra tip box if there's a question you're thinking of or if there's something a more advanced user may want to take on. Get this book!

Excellent and Thorough Intro to Flash MX

I'm completely new to Flash MX and this book was a great introduction. As a total newbie I had to work through each chapter before I could move to the next. However, by the time I got to the end of the book I found that I had very good breadth of knowlege about Flash MX and was well prepared to move to more intermediate books. This is a great book to get you over Flash MX's big learning curve.

Best for beginners

If you want to try and learn Flash MX 2004 from scratch, go get this book. It will help you to get to intermediate level fast and with ease especially if you have a good knowledge in image editing. I guess, first few chapters will be too basic for you. You may just skip chapters that you think you're already armed with, just like what i did (skipping half of the book's pages), but with no regrets. After all, learning flash is what I'm after with. And besides, I haven't completed reading the book yet. My brother is learning the book also, but the difference is, he has no knowledge in image editing at all and he's really enjoying learning from the book. He has it 5 stars, I have it 4 stars by a few chapters. We're still trying to learn remaining chapters of the book that would determine the deciding factor.

Flash MX 2004 training upgraded

This is a very good book for those who want a reference book to see quickly how to do something. Sufficient depth to be helpful in learning but sufficiently clear to be easy to follow. This should not be the only book you get, but it should be the first one.