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| Introduction | |
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| Before Jumping into Flash: Rich Media Design | |
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| Principles and Practice | |
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| Working with Clients to Create Rich Media Projects | |
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| What Is Rich Media? | |
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| Viewing Great Rich Media Examples | |
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| Identifying Your Content’s Purpose and Audience | |
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| Choosing the Best Media Types | |
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| Addressing Accessibility Issues in Rich Media | |
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| Designing for People Who Are Blind | |
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| Designing for Low-Vision Viewers | |
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| Designing for Hearing-Impaired and Deaf Viewers | |
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| Designing for People with Physical Limitations | |
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| Designing for People with Cognitive Limitations | |
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| Designing for People with Photosensitive Epilepsy | |
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| Understanding Project Management 101 | |
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| Identifying a Project | |
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| Creating the Project Plan | |
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| Creating the Project Schedule | |
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| Properly Closing Out the Project | |
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| Understanding Copyright Issues When Using Others’ Work | |
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| Understanding Text Copyright | |
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| Understanding Music Copyright | |
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| Understanding Video Copyright | |
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| Understanding Animation Copyright | |
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| Understanding Trademarks | |
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| Getting Acquainted with Flash | |
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| Opening Flash for the First Time | |
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| Using Flash Panels | |
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| Frequently Used Panels | |
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| Other Handy Panels | |
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| Understanding Flash Workspaces | |
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| Understanding Flash File Types | |
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| FLA | |
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| SWF | |
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| HTML | |
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| Drawing Shapes in Flash | |
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| Drawing Standard Shapes | |
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| Understanding Merge vs. Object Drawing | |
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| Creating Objects in Merge Drawing Mode | |
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| Creating Objects in Object Drawing Mode | |
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| Drawing Primitive Shapes | |
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| Drawing Polygonal or Star Shapes with the PolyStar Tool | |
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| Making Artsy Shapes with the Deco Tool | |
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| Drawing Other Shapes | |
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| Working with Color in Flash | |
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| Using kuler | |
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| Saving a Color Set | |
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| Working with Color Gradients | |
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| Getting Started with the Timeline | |
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| Becoming Acquainted with the Timeline | |
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| Adding Different Frame Types to Your Animation | |
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| Copying and Deleting Frames | |
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| Frame Names | |
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| Organizing Your Work with Layers | |
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| Creating a UFO Scene | |
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| Hanging the Moon | |
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| Organizing Your Layers: Using Layer Folders | |
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| Working with Special Layer Types | |
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| Aligning Objects with Snapping | |
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| Adding Flash Text and Fonts to Your Creat ions | |
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| Understanding When You Can Use TLF Text Fields | |
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| Flash Player | |
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| ActionScript | |
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| Flash Builder | |
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| Picking the Best Font | |
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| Choosing Serif or Sans Serif | |
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| Embedding Your Font | |
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| Using Placeholder Text | |
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| Checking Your Spelling | |
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| Using Classic Text | |
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| Deciding to Use Classic Text | |
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| Inserting Classic Text Boxes | |
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| Using Text Layout Framework | |
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| Deciding to Use TLF | |
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| Inserting TLF Text Boxes | |
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| Working with Flash Symbols | |
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| Creating Graphic Symbols | |
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| Converting Assets to a Symbol | |
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| Grouping Assets | |
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| Using the Library | |
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| Using the Symbols from the Library | |
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| Implementing a Library Naming Convention | |
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| Grouping Common Objects in the Library | |
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| Creating Button Symbols | |
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| Manually Creating a Button | |
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| Turning the Button into an Instance | |
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| Editing a Button | |
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| Using a Prebuilt Button | |
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| Creating Movie Clip Symbols | |
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| Creating and Editing Symbol Instances | |
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| Understanding ActionScript Linkages | |
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| Developing Simple Flash Animations | |
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| Developing Storyboards to Describe Your Animation | |
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| Creating a Storyboard for Cow Abduction | |
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| Animating the Cow Abduction | |
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| Creating a Frame-by-Frame Animation | |
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| Differentiating between a Stage Animation and a Movie Clip | |
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| Using Tweens | |
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| Creating Shape Tweens | |
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| Making Changes to a Shape Tween | |
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| Adding Shape Hints | |
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| Creating Motion Tweens | |
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| Rotating Objects | |
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| Using Parallax Scrolling | |
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| Applying Granular Changes with the Motion Editor | |
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| Making Animations More Realistic with Easing | |
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| Using Motion Presets | |
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| Understanding Classic Tweens | |
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| Techniques for Creating More Technical Animations | |
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| Creating a Bicycle with Rotating Wheels | |
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| Drawing the Crank Arms | |
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| Creating the Pedals | |
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| Repeating the Process for the Three Arcs | |
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| Creating the Sprocket | |
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| Creating the Tires | |
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| Creating the Bike Frame | |
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| Assembling the Bike | |
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| Setting Different Speeds Using Parallax Scrolling | |
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| Creating the Buildings | |
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| Adding Some Clouds | |
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| Assembling the Scene | |
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| Adding a Highway | |
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| Creating a Bouncing Ball with Color Gradients, Motion Presets, and Eases | |
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| Creating the Basketball Court’s Floor | |
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| Adding Pizzazz with Custom Color Gradients | |
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| Creating a Backboard by Combining Motion Tweens | |
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| Tweaking the Animation | |
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| Adding Perspective to the Basketball Scene with 3D Tools | |
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| Creating Characters with Inverse Kinematics | |
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| Boning a Character | |
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| Snapping a Photo as a Base | |
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| Tracing Your Picture | |
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| Inserting Bones into Your Character | |
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| Constricting Animations | |
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| Animating IK’d Objects | |
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| Creating the Bicycle Animation | |
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| Creating Bouncing Movement Using IK Springs | |
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| Working with Audio | |
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| Creating a Rich Media Project with Audio | |
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| Creating the Drum Set | |
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| Drawing the Bass Drum | |
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| Drawing the Bass Drum Hoops | |
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| Making the Drum Head | |
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| Moving the Back Hoop into the Back of the Front Hoop | |
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| Creating the Drum Shell | |
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| Drawing and Placing the Lugs and Rods | |
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| Creating the Tom-Toms and Snare | |
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| Making the Cymbals and Cymbal Stands | |
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| Drawing the Cymbal Stand | |
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| Drawing the Scissor-Style Brace for the Cymbal Stand Legs | |
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| Creating the Cymbal | |
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| Creating the High-Hat Stand and Cymbals | |
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| Adding Sounds to the Drums | |
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| Importing the Sounds and Preparing for ActionScript | |
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| Creating the Buttons | |
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| Adding a Hit Zone to the Cymbals | |
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| Compressing Audio | |
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| Using the Sounds Supplied with Flash | |
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| Putting a Sound on the Stage | |
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| Controlling a Sound with a Code Snippet | |
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| Working with Video | |
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| Understanding Supported Flash Video File Types | |
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| Converting Non-supported File Types | |
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| Using the Import Video Wizard | |
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| Setting Up ActionScript Cue Points | |
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| Adding ActionScript Cue Points to Your Video | |
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| Adding Parameters to Cue Points | |
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| Adding the Buttons | |
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| Working with ActionScript | |
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| Getting Started with ActionScript | |
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| ActionScript Basics | |
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| Working with Dynamic Text | |
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| Programmatically Adjusting a Text Object’s Coordinates and Formatting | |
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| Testing Your Work | |
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| Programming ActionScript to Calculate Your BMI | |
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| Writing the Code to Declare Variables and Hide Dynamic Text Fields | |
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| Garnering User Input | |
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| Calculating and Outputting the Results | |
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| Publishing Your Work | |
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| Adobe Rich Media Communication Using Flash Professional CS6 Objectives | |
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| Next Steps | |
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| Index | |