Download or read book Foundation Flash Catalyst written by Greg Goralski and published by Apress. This book was released on 2010-12-28 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an introduction to Flash Catalyst for designers with intermediate to advanced skills. It discusses where Catalyst sits within the production process and how it communicates with other programs. It covers all of the features of the Flash Catalyst workspace, teaching you how to create designs from scratch, how to build application designs and add functionality, and how to master the Catalyst/Flex workflow. Introduces Flash Catalyst Focuses on production process Covers the interrelation between Flash Catalyst and Photoshop/Illustrator/Flex/Flash

Download or read book Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst written by Steven Peeters and published by Apress. This book was released on 2010-08-26 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Flash Platform is changing. Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst have brought a new separation of design and coding to web development that enables a much more efficient and streamlined workflow. For designers and developers used to the close confines of Flash, this is a hugely liberating, but at first alien concept. This book teaches the new workflow for the Flash platform. It gives an overview of the technologies involved and provides you with real-world project examples and best-practice guidelines to get from design to implementation with the tools at hand. Includes many examples Focuses on real-world situations Covers designer and developer workflow

Download or read book Foundation Flash CS5 For Designers written by Tom Green and published by Apress. This book was released on 2010-12-28 with total page 861 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flash is one of the most engaging, innovative, and versatile technologies available—allowing the creation of anything from animated banners and simple cartoons to rich Internet applications, interactive videos, and dynamic user interfaces for web sites, kiosks, devices, or DVDs. The possibilities are endless, and now it just got better. Flash CS5 boasts a host of new features, including better support for mobile devices, a whole new animation engine enabling full manipulation of tweens and paths, custom easing, improved inverse kinematics, a revamped timeline, built-in 3D, and much more. This book is all you’ll need to learn Flash CS5 from the ground up. If you already have Flash experience, this book will allow you to quickly catch up on all the cool new features. Flash experts Tom Green and Tiago Dias guide you step-by-step through all facets of Flash CS5, keeping the emphasis firmly on good design techniques that you use in your own projects. Learn Flash design from the ground up, or just get to grips with the new features, with a series of step-by-step tutorials. Provides an easy introduction to ActionScript 3.0 coding, but the focus is mainly kept on design. Learn from the experts—written by renowned Flash designers Tom Green and Tiago Dias.

Download or read book Foundation Game Design with ActionScript 3 0 written by Rex van der Spuy and published by Apress. This book was released on 2012-03-28 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to the success of the first edition of Foundation Game Design with Flash, Rex van der Spuy has revised and updated all the code to meet current programming best practices, and the focus is now on accurate ActionScript 3.0, regardless of the IDE that you use. We’ve all sneaked the odd five minutes here or there playing the latest Flash game that someone sent around the office, but creating those games is trickier than it looks. The aim of Foundation Game Design with ActionScript 3.0 is to take you, even if you’ve minimal multimedia or programming experience, through a series of step-by-step examples and detailed case studies—to the point where you'll have the skills to independently design any conceivable 2D game using Flash and ActionScript. Foundation Game Design with ActionScript 3.0 is a non-technical one-stop shop for all the most important skills and techniques a beginning game designer needs to build games with Flash from scratch. Whether you're creating quick blasts of viral amusement, or more in-depth action or adventure titles, this is the book for you. Focused and friendly introduction to designing games with Flash and ActionScript Detailed case studies of Flash games Essential techniques for building games, with each chapter gently building on the skills of preceding chapters Modern best practices and new content on ActionScript 3.0 Also covers asset creation in Photoshop and Illustrator

Download or read book Foundation ActionScript 3 written by Paul Milbourne and published by Apress. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ActionScript 3 is a full-fledged programming language, with complete object-oriented capabilities, event handling, sound and video support, drawing capabilities, support for regular expressions, and much more. Whether you are just starting out on the road to computer programming and animation or an experienced developer who wants to learn a new language, you’ll find all you need to know in Foundation ActionScript 3. Starting with the fundamentals, you’ll learn how to add interactivity to your Flash movies by using ActionScript objects, manipulating sound and video, and harnessing the power of regular expressions and XML. The book concludes with two case studies to consolidate what you’ve learned and introduce some additional advanced techniques. You’ll gain a solid understanding of the exciting world of ActionScript 3 and see how everything fits together, so you’ll be able to build your own professional applications. The sensible layout of the book makes it easy to find information about specific techniques. It focuses on the essential skills that will enable you to get up and running quickly. With this book as your guide, you’ll be creating killer Flash applications before you know it.

Download or read book Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium Classroom in a Book written by Adobe Creative Team and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2010-06-25 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Creative Suite 5 choose Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium Classroom in a Book from the Adobe Creative Team at Adobe Press. The 8 project-based lessons show readers step-by-step the key techniques for working with all the applications in the Creative Suite. Readers learn what they need to know to create engaging layouts for print or web publishing. This completely revised Creative Suite 5 edition covers designing for mobile devices and creating animated Flash documents. The companion DVD includes all the lesson files readers need to work along with the book. This guide is ideal for beginning to intermediate users and provides countless tips and techniques to help them become more productive. “The Classroom in a Book series is by far the best training material on the market. Everything you need to master the software is included: clear explanations of each lesson, step-by-step instructions, and the project files for the students.” –Barbara Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor, Rocky Mountain Training Classroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, helps you learn the features of Adobe software quickly and easily. Classroom in a Book offers what no other book or training program does–an official training series from Adobe Systems Incorporated, developed with the support of Adobe product experts. Note from the publisher: FREE Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 updates are available for this title. Simply register your product at www.peachpit.com/register and you will receive the updates when they become available.

Download or read book Flash Catalyst CS5 Bible written by Rob Huddleston and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn to use the new Flash Catalyst to create rich Internet applications Adobe Flash Catalyst enables you to take designs from Photoshop and Illustrator and convert them into rich Flash-based applications—without writing or even understanding one line of code. It may sound too good to be true, but this helpful reference shows you how to leverage the Flash skills you already have in order to convert your ideas into functioning applications. You’ll explore everything from the basics of the Flex framework to using Flash Builder to complete conversion of an application. Shows you how to use the eagerly anticipated Flash Catalyst to convert assets from Illustrator and Photoshop directly into Flex components without ever needing to write code Reviews the basics of the Flex framework and rich Internet applications Demonstrates how to import comps and assets into Flash Builder in order to create an application Convert your ideas from design into functioning applications—and avoid writing complex code—with this authoritative resource.

Download or read book Flash Builder Work Your First Information Rich Application written by Cesare Rocchi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2010-08-15 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Build your first Flex application! Discover MXML as a great markup language to quickly create a working app. Get acquainted with the Flash Builder IDE, then get your hands dirty with some Flex basics, a few components and some data service features in Flash Builder to build an application that will load and display data from RSS.Your First Information-Rich Application is the first of five articles that will be compiled in the book, Data Visualization with Flash Builder: Designing RIA and AIR Applications with Remote Data Sources. Each full-color article illustrates specific aspects of F.

Download or read book Illustrator Foundations written by Rafiq Elmansy and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2013 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expand your graphics toolkit and delve into the complexity of Adobe Illustrator with the practical and time-tested techniques, tips, and tricks of an Adobe Certified Expert, featureing all new content or Illustrator CS6

Download or read book Flash Builder 4 and Flex 4 Bible written by David Gassner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-03-26 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete and thorough reference for developers on the new Flex 4 platform Create desktop applications that behave identically on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux with Adobe's new Flash Builder 4 platform and this in-depth guide. The book's tutorials and explanations walk you step-by-step through Flash Builder's new, faster tools; the new framework for generating code; how to connect to popular application servers; upgrading from Flex 3; and much more. Shows you how to create rich applications for the Web and desktop with the very latest version of Flex, with detailed coverage for both new and veteran Flex application developers Walks you through Flex basics; upgrading from Flex 3; how to create desktop applications with AIR; and integrating Flex applications with the most popular application servers, including ColdFusion, ASP.NET, and PHP Includes extensive code samples of common tasks that you can use to jump-start your development projects Flex your development muscles with the Flex 4 and this comprehensive guide.

Download or read book Foundation Flash CS3 for Designers written by David Stiller and published by Apress. This book was released on 2008-05-16 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a design-slanted guide aimed at giving aspiring Flash designers a solid grounding in the new version, as well as giving established Flash designers a clear look over the new flash CS3 features. Written by renowned Flash designers Tom Green and David Stiller, it features real world examples throughout, presented in an accessible, friendly tutorial style. No other beginner's Flash CS3 guide is specifically aimed at designers. Flash still remains a huge market area, and in 2007 Adobe released Flash CS3 which boasts a whole host of new features for Flash designers to get excited about.

Download or read book Quick Guide to Flash Catalyst written by Rafiq Elmansy and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2011-08-05 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you transform user interface designs created in Photoshop or Illustrator into interactive web pages? It's easier than you think. This guide shows you how to use Adobe Flash Catalyst to create interactive UIs and website wireframes for Rich Internet Applications—without writing a single line of code. Ideal for web designers, this book introduces Flash Catalyst basics with detailed step-by-step instructions and screenshots that illustrate every part of the process. You'll learn hands-on how to turn your static design or artwork into working user interfaces that can be implemented in Flash Builder or Adobe AIR. Get an overview of Flash Catalyst’s interactive components Import files from Photoshop, Illustrator, or Fireworks Convert your artwork into interactive components and apply specific actions Create animated transitions between the web pages in your project Test interactive components and transitions while you work Get optimization tips to help you create fast-loading applications Export projects to the SWF format for web use, or to Adobe AIR for desktop applications

Download or read book Learning Flex 4 written by Alaric Cole and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn Adobe Flex 4 in a fun and engaging way with this book's unique, hands-on approach. Using clear examples and step-by-step coaching from two experts, you'll create four applications that demonstrate fundamental Flex programming concepts. Throughout the course of this book, you’ll learn how to enhance user interaction with ActionScript, and create and skin a user interface with Flex’s UI components (MXML) and Adobe's new FXG graphics format. You'll also be trained to manage dynamic data, connect to a database using server-side script, and deploy applications to both the Web and the desktop. Learning Flex 4 offers tips and tricks the authors have collected from years of real-world experience, and straightforward explanations of object-oriented programming concepts to help you understand how Flex 4 works. Work with Flash Builder 4 and the Eclipse IDE Learn the basics of ActionScript, MXML, and FXG Design a Flex application layout Build an engaging user interface Add interactivity with ActionScript Handle user input with rich forms Link Flex to a server with PHP and MySQL Gather and display data Style applications and add effects, filters, and transitions Deploy applications to the Web, or to the desktop using Adobe AIR

Download or read book AdvancED Game Design with Flash written by Rex van der Spuy and published by Apress. This book was released on 2010-12-28 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creating games in Flash is a never-ending journey of exploration, learning, and most of all, fun. Once you’ve mastered the basics, a new world is opened up to you, enabling you to take your existing skills to the next level and discover new skills that will in turn open new doors. This book is a direct continuation of Foundation Game Design with Flash, and is a complete point-by-point roundup of the most important skills a Flash game designer needs to know. You’ll increase your ActionScript knowledge and your game design skills while creating some excellent example games. You’ll learn advanced collision detection skills; professional AI and pathfinding; and how to load and save game data, create destructible environments, and build and switch game levels. Each chapter highlights a new advanced technique illustrated by practical examples. Examples of games are given in a variety of genres, all of which take an object-oriented programming approach. Advanced game design topics are covered, including vector-based collision reaction, pathfinding, billiard ball physics, and modeling game data.

Download or read book Foundations of Intelligent Systems written by Floriana Esposito and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, ISMIS 2015, held in Lyon, France, in October 2015. The 31 revised full papers presented together with 18 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 67 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on data mining methods; databases, information retrieval, recommender systems; machine learning; knowledge representation, semantic web; emotion recognition, music information retrieval; network analysis, multi-agent systems; applications; planning, classification; and textual data analysis and mining.

Download or read book What s New in Flash Player 11 written by Joseph Labrecque and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will present you with a full rundown of all the new features in the upcoming Flash Player 11 runtime. Along with each feature, if applicable, will be a demonstration of how to employ the new feature. There's also be a short introduction to Flash Player and a chapter dedicated to providing you with additional resources.

Download or read book Foundations of Digital Art and Design with the Adobe Creative Cloud written by Xtine Burrough and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2014 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Teaches art and design principles with references to contemporary digital art alongside basic digital tools in Adobe Creative Cloud"--Cover, page [4].