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Focal Easy Guide to Flash MX 2004: For New Users and Professionals (Focal Easy Guide Series) (Paperback)

by Birgitta Hosea (Author) "SmartSketch was a drawing application originally developed in the early 1990s by Jonathan Gay and his company Future Splash, which developed into an animation program..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Focal Press; illustrated edition edition (10 Aug 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0240519590
  • ISBN-13: 978-0240519593
  • Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 14.7 x 1.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,094,297 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"A useful companion for current Flash MX 2004 users, and particularly worthwhile for those thinking of working with the software and seeking to understand its features." - Game Developers' Association of Australia "I have found this book by Birgitta Hosea to be an essential reference guide to keep by my computer! As I am currently teaching myself Flash MX 2004, I have found myself constantly leafing through the pages of this book for advice. The many illustrations found amongst the pages and step by step guides have made learning Flash very clear and easy. I would recommend this book to anybody, be they a beginner or an expert! This book works on two levels; as a step by step learning process for beginners or an excellent reference guide for experts. Highly recommended! If you work with Flash, you need this book!" - online reviewer, amazon.co.uk "...it is very easy to read. It is not buried in jargon, but instead uses real examples in a step by step tutorial like setting, where you play with the program and get comfortable with the environment. I seriously loved this book...Go to a local book store and thumb through it yourself." - online reviewer, amazon.com


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Confused by ActionScript? Want to get to grips with creating interactive graphics and animation in Flash quickly? Whether you are a new user or a professional illustrator, designer or animator experienced in other animation and effects packages, this highly visual, colour book will be all you need to get you up and running with the latest powerful upgrade - Flash MX 2004. Birgitta Hosea uses tried and tested material based on her teaching, breaking down the software into its main components and providing lots of screenshots and simple step-by-step instructions. This encourages you to get the most out of the programme and fully develop your skills, whilst allowing those with particular needs to jump ahead. The structure and style, influenced by her commercial and creative expertise, allows you either as a student or professional to dip in and out according to the needs of your specific projects, but also allows the exploration of the programmes capability when you have more time. It is a generalist, accessible, visual and a truly introductory guide, written from the perspective of a designer with a thorough coverage of the basic features of Flash MX 2004, without going too in-depth into coding with ActionScript. Birgitta Hosea is a motion graphics artist and Course Director of the London Animation Studio at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. Her experience ranges from designing idents and promotional materials to working as an Art Director on pop promos and short films.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars You can not do without this book by your side!, 20 Jan 2005
I have found this book by Birgitta Hosea very useful and so has become an essential reference guide to keep by my computer! As I am currently teaching myself Flash MX 2004, I have found myself constantly leafing through the pages of this book for advice. The many illustrations found amongst the pages and step by step guides have made learning Flash very clear and easy.

I would recommend this book to anybody, be they a beginner or an expert! This book works on two levels; as a step by step learning process for beginners or an excellent reference guide for experts. Highly recommended! If you work with Flash, you need this book!

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars This book makes it all clear and so easy!!, 20 Jan 2005
I have found this book by Birgitta Hosea to be an essential guide to keep by my computer. As I am still teaching myself Flash MX 2004, I have found myself referring back to this book for advice on many aspects of Flash from the basic to the advanced. With many illustrations among the pages, it was very easy to follow each step appling them straight to my learning.

I would recommend this book to anyone from beginner level to experienced as it makes a good learning tool if not a reference guide for the experienced!

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2.0 out of 5 stars Spoilt by bad editing, 19 Jan 2006
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In its favour, this starter guide to Flash MX 2004 is clearly laid out, relatively cheap and comes with colour illustrations.

But the fact is that this book, like most other computer-related publications, is in essence a reference guide. Such works stand or fall by the quality of their index, and in this respect the Focal Easy Guide to Flash MX2004 is a miserable failure.

Consult the index for "tweening", for example, and what do you find? Absolutely nothing. Or what about "keyframes"? Zilch. Try to find "marker" - you won't.

Time and again, I've gone to the index for explanation about some basic aspect of Flash and found it lacking. Instead I've had to waste time thumbing through the book until I find what I need.

What's more, the book it littered with typos, and the picture captions, bafflingly, up-cap nearly every word.

It's a shame because somewhere behind the badly thought-out aspects of this work is a good beginner's guide trying to get out.

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