Foundation Flash CS4 for Designers or Adobe PhotoShop Lightroom how Tos

Foundation Flash CS4 for Designers

Author: Tom Green

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, or DVDs. The possibilities are endless, except that now, it just got better.

Flash CS4 boasts a host of new features, including a whole new animation engine enabling full manipulation of tweens and paths, custom easing, and inverse kinematics, a revamped timeline, built-in 3D, and much more.

This book is all you'll need to learn Flash CS4 from the ground up, or learn about all these new features, if you already have previous Flash experience—Flash experts Tom Green and David Stiller take you step-by-step through all facets of Flash CS4, with 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 expertswritten by renowned Flash designers Tom Green and David Stiller

What you'll learn

The ins and outs of the Flash CS4 interface

How to use all of Flash CS4's essential features, such as text, graphics, and animation

How to use video and sound effectively in Flash

The fundamentals of Flash CS4s new animation and timeline features

The basics of ActionScript 3.0

How to populate a Flash movie with dynamic data such as XML

Who is this bookfor?

This book is for both beginners who want a solid grounding in Flash CS4, and designers with previous Flash experience, who want to get up to speed with the new features.

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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques

Author: Chris Orwig

Build your Lightroom expertise, one technique at a time. Why sort through piles of unrelated documentation when you can focus on the essential techniques? In Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 How-Tos, author Chris Orwig brings you the best techniques to quickly organize and correct your digital images using this powerful program created specifically for photographers. Complete with illustrations and practical tips, these bite-sized lessons from Chris’s experience as a photographer and instructor provide just the information you need. Here you can explore the program at your own pace, spending less time at your computer and more time behind the lens taking great pictures.

Coverage includes

• Customizing the Interface
• Understanding File Formats
• Finding Images with Text, Refine, and Metadata Filters
• Using Presets in Quick Develop
• Correcting White Balance
• Applying Settings to Other Images
• Changing Hue, Saturation, and Luminance
• Dodging and Burning with the Adjustment Brush
• Customizing Web Galleries