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Learning Flash CS4 Professional

Posted by on May 25, 2009 | 8 Comments

There should be an image here!If you’re a Flash designer or developer picking up Flash CS4 Professional for the first time, or a user upgrading from a prior version, you’ll want O’Reilly’s newest publication, Learning Flash CS4 Professional: Getting Up to Speed with Flash, by your side.

Learning Flash CS4 Professional: Getting Up to Speed with Flash offers beginners and intermediate Flash developers a unique introduction to the latest version of Adobe’s powerful multimedia application. Authored by Flash and ActionScript expert Rich Shupe, this easy-to-read book comes loaded with full-color examples and hands-on tasks to help you master Flash CS4′s new motion editor, integrated 3D system, and character control using the new inverse kinematics bones animation system.

No prior experience with Flash is necessary to enjoy this book, as you learn the Flash interface from the ground up, but there are plenty of new features of which veteran Flash designers and developers can take advantage.

“Like many creative technologies, the Flash platform (not just the software, but also the community) has exploded over the last several years, fueled by faster, less expensive computers, the arrival of economical broadband access, and the growing role the Internet plays in our personal and professional lives,” writes Shupe in the book’s introduction. “If you’re reading this book — whether you’re a developer or designer (or perhaps a member of the recently dubbed devigner camp: a programming creative that defies easy description) — it’s because Flash does, or will, play a part in your productivity. No matter what your experience level, you’ll find that Flash is a big application with a lot to offer.”

Learning Flash CS4 Professional will help you:

  • Understand Flash fundamentals with clear, concise information you can use right away
  • Learn key concepts and techniques in every chapter, with annotated screenshots and illustrations
  • Develop an ongoing project that utilizes material from every chapter
  • Learn how to package your work for distribution on the Web and through AIR desktop applications
  • Download sample files and discuss additional Flash features on the companion blog

As part of the Adobe Developer Library, and companion volume to the bestselling Learning ActionScript 3.0 by Rich Shupe and Zevan Rosser, this is the most authoritative guide to Flash CS4 available. Get moving with Flash today!

  • http://mabertech.net Liam Green

    Very nice. Thats for the post.

  • http://twitter.com/Kyletwit Kyle Free

    An iMac running Lion can share its internet via Ethernet even while it is sleeping. Actually it can do a ton of new things while it is sleeping including having shares and printer actually work. Neato. Some features are from Snow Leopard, but they definitely work better.

  • Car WHORE

    These aren’t Easter eggs.

  • Jeremy Kelleher

    In Safari, you shift-click a link and it puts the link you just clicked into the reading list…

  • http://twitter.com/EnvoyOfTheEnd Ian Bunting

    Apple have more freedom to make their hardware look sexier due to the making it hard to upgrade.

    PC’s may not look as nice, but its because you have the freedom to create the system you want, and replace many if not all the parts.

    An option simply not available to any extent, or at least a rather limited degree on Macs.

    • http://profiles.google.com/rysliv ryan haz

      Oh please. There is many PC’s that look much better than apple.
      And Apple uses the same hardware, its not like their much different at all.
      Some people seem to cut corners and buy the cheap stuff, the saying “you get what you pay for” is true, and if you pay 40 bucks for a motherboard, your motherboard can expect to die pretty quickly. Or have issues. PC’s don’t have any problems if you have the highest quality hardware, Like most gamers do. I rarely have ever had to replace any hardware. So truly your statement is incorrect. mostly ppl just dont maintain their computer often enough to keep problems from happening, Its not any different for macs either. dont maintain you get failures.

  • http://profiles.google.com/rysliv ryan haz

    Not like PC’s look like trash. Only reason someone has problems is cause of their decision to purchase cheap hardware, or have the staff at bestbuy choose it for them, Without reviewing the product or knowing anything about it at all. And apple doesn’t use cheap hardware. Its why theres not as many hardware issues reported from all mac users. Unless they got a defective module or something.

  • http://profiles.google.com/kevinrubin Kevin Rubin

    I remember at one time it wasn’t always the case that PCs were boring. There were truly exciting choices available, the beige PC, the slightly grayish beige PC. Some had a big, red power switch on the side (how cool is that!) while others had a slick, black one at the back…