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Adobe Press is a world leader in high-quality books for visual communicators and the official source of training materials for Adobe software. There is a lot of free material available on their site and you can see some of it below.
Article :: Adobe® Flash® Catalyst™ CS5 - A Smart Choice for Web Designers - Using Flash Catalyst, designers can publish working Flex applications without writing a single line of code. Scott Tapley takes a look at ten features and benefits that make Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 a smart choice for anyone who produces interacti...
Article :: ActionScript® 3.0 for Adobe® Flash® Professional CS5 Classroom in a Book: Adding ActionScript Using Code Snippets - This excerpt from ActionScript® 3.0 for Adobe® Flash® Professional CS5 Classroom in a Book shows how to add ActionScript using code snippets.
Article :: Adobe® Flash® Catalyst™ CS5 Classroom in a Book: Preparing a Design Document - The way you approach the design and organization of your artwork has a significant impact on the structure of the project in Flash Catalyst and the underlying code. This excerpt from Adobe® Flash® Catalyst™ CS5 Classroom in a Book will help protec...
Article :: Adobe® Flash® Professional CS5 Classroom in a Book: Creating Symbols - In this lesson, you will select the different parts of the imported Illustrator graphic, and then convert the various pieces to symbols.
Article :: Video with Adobe Flash CS4 Professional: Compression and Encoding Primer - Learn how to make the right decisions when it comes time to compress digital video and audio into Flash-compatible video files.
Article :: Video with Adobe Flash CS4 Professional: Delivery and Deployment Primer - Learn the differences between distribution file formats and protocols for Flash-based video, along with their advantages and disadvantages.
Article :: Creating a Twitter Widget with Flash - With the help of ActionScript 3.0 and PHP, Kris Hadlock shows how easily you can add your tweets to your website.
Article :: Flash Essentials for After Effects Users - Flash baffles After Effects users as often as it makes them feel comfortable. This chapter from Rich Harrington introduces you to Flash’s interface and core animation techniques.
Article :: Video with Adobe Flash CS4: Delivery and Deployment Primer - Learn the differences between distribution file formats and protocols for Flash-based video, along with their advantages and disadvantages.
Article :: Using Symbols and the Library in Adobe Flash CS4 - Learn the basics of creating, modifying, and organizing symbols.
Article :: Controlling Movie Clip Properties with ActionScript 3.0 - By using ActionScript in addition to or instead of the Flash interface, you can create many more interactive possibilities in your Flash projects. The Adobe Creative Team shows how easy it is to use ActionScript to control the properties of a movi...
Article :: Getting Familiar with Paths in Adobe Flash CS4 Professional - One of the most important innovations in Flash was a new set of tools that made creating vector graphics as simple and intuitive as creating bitmap graphics. This excerpt, adapted from Adobe Flash CS4 Professional How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques...
Article :: Positioning Flash CS4 Objects in 3D Space - What’s so cool about Flash CS4? You can now position and animate objects in real 3D space. The Adobe Creative Team demonstrates how to use the following special Flash tools for accurate 3D positioning: the 3D Rotation tool, the 3D Translation tool...
Article :: Embedding Flash Video with Dreamweaver - David Karlins shows how to use Dreamweaver to embed a video clip into your own web page, presented with your own customized display skin, and surrounded by your own content.
Article :: From Flash to Flex: Understanding Flex Events - Kris Hadlock explains Flex events and how to incorporate them into object-oriented code.
Article :: From Flash to Flex: Creating ActionScript Components for Flex - Kris Hadlock explains how to create an ActionScript component for Flex by using XML as a data source to offer reusability in your Flex applications.
Article :: From Flash to Flex: Moving to ActionScript 3 - In his second article from the Flash to Flex series, which focuses on helping you migrate your work environment from Flash to Flex by learning the differences between and comparing the two applications, Kris Hadlock shows you all you need to know ...
Article :: From Flash to Flex: Integrating ActionScript with MXML - Are you familiar with Flash and interested in making a move to Flex? This article is for you. It will show you the differences between the two applications and how to make a smooth transition. In this first article of a multipart series, "From Fla...
Article :: Modify Simple Graphics in Flash MX 2004 - Flash back to Macromedia Flash MX 2004 for a retro tutorial on how to modify simple graphics in Flash! If you're still using Macromedia Flash MX 2004, you'll want to sneak a peek at this sample chapter, which shows you how to use the selection, la...
Article :: How to Export a Site Design From Fireworks to Dreamweaver - After you create and finalize your site's design in Fireworks, you can turn your attention to moving the design from Fireworks to Dreamweaver. Moving the design is a two-step process that involves image optimization and file export. In this lesso...
Article :: Create Text-Based Links in Dreamweaver 8 - In this lesson, you’ll develop the initial framework of the site structure by developing placeholders for the pages in the Yoga Sangha project site. You’ll link these pages together using Dreamweaver’s visual site-mapping tools to create a working...
Article :: Build a Dynamic App Step-by-Step in Dreamweaver 8 - By the end of this lesson, you’ll have an idea of how dynamic sites work, and what they are created to do; you’ll have Macromedia Dreamweaver configured to work with dynamic data; and you’ll have created your first page that uses dynamic content.
Article :: Working with Flash Professional 8 Blends - New in Flash 8 Professional is a collection of image compositing effects called blending modes and image special effects called filters. James Gonzalez describes how the use of blending modes and filters can help you become king (or queen) of the ...
Article :: How to Upload a File by Using the Flash FileReference Object - Flash has long lacked the ability to upload files, a standard function in programming languages. Kris Hadlock cheers the addition of the FileReference object in Flash 8; by combining a bit of ActionScript and PHP, it's now quite simple to create a...
Article :: Working with Text in Macromedia Flash 8 - Flash's text tool doesn't just create graphic-objects in the shape of letters, it creates text boxes filled with live type; in the authoring environment, the contents of a text box are fully editable. As you create text elements, you must decide h...