Macromedia Flash was already the industry standard for creating interactive vector graphics and Web animation--and now it's even better. With the latest edition of Flash 5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide, you'll learn the basics of vector drawing, plus tackle new features, like custom panel layouts, Pen Tools and bezier controls, customized keyboard shortcuts, Movie Explorer and much more.

With step-by-step instructions for creating Flash movies, incorporating sound, and adding other multimedia effects to your site, this thorough, concise guide is intended for seasoned pros and eager novices alike. Like all Visual QuickStart Guides, it's filled with the screen shots, tips and techniques to make it a welcome addition to any Web designer's collection.

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Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 27 Ratings

Too plain, need some exercises - 2002-01-31
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It is a book for beginners who know little about computer graphic. It doesn't give you much besides what you can do with the tools. You can't expect to find any special tips in this book. Too plain. Don't know why the instructor suggested this book. It is not as great as he told us.

Leaves out important steps! - 2002-01-08
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Horrible book! It leaves out important steps for beginners! Example: in telling you how to do a shape tween (p. 304), it neglects to tell you to select "create tween", something a beginner would not know. It tells you to get a certain tool, or go to a certain window, but does not tell you where it is or how to get to it (and some are hidden quite well in Flash) This book leaves out a lot of important steps that are unique to Flash, but goes into lengthy detail about things that anyone could figure out, like how to draw a circle with the circle tool.

great reference book - 2002-11-25
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Anytime I stuck or forget about when I am in front of my computer with macromedia flash on, this book has saved my behind many times! I have flash MX now and this book still to the certain extend help me!

A NEWBIE IN FLASH - 2002-09-03
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I bought Katherine Ulrich's Visual Quickstart Guide to Flash5, and have found it to be very helpful. With no prior knowledge of animating or flash..i have found this book to be very helpful..giving the basics on such things as timelines, shape and motion tweens,and the general layout/tools of Flash5. After just a few days of reading in my free time, i am able to make simple flash movies and i'm very excited about it. For a total beginner like myself, this book is very good..however, i can admit to not owning any other Flash5 books to compare it with. It doesn't give a lot of help in the area of action scripting..so if you are someone wanting to learn action scripting i'd say to pass this one over and find something else..but for someone just starting out in Flash..this book is good..has many helpful tips and easy to understand!

Terrible - 2002-07-01
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Don't buy this book, not only does it leave you frustrated because of the lack of explanation it also gives you no idea's on actionscripting, all you will do with this book is read over and over the steps wondering where you are going wrong because the explanations are wrong, they might as well just pasted a 5 over the old 4 books and sold it as a new one, I can't wait for the 6 version, I'm sure that will be a repackaged 4 as well !!!

SAVE YOUR MONEY-get some other book!!!

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