Fearless Flash: How to Use Adobe Indesign CS5 and the Tools You Already Know to Create Engaging Web Experiences

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCue, Claudia, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adobe InDesign (Electronic resource).

Flash (Computer file).

Internet programming.

Web site development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x,229 p.) : ill.

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] Adobe Press 2010

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

InDesign CS5 opens the door to a new world: with the addition of exciting animation tools and deeper multimedia support. It's now a viable interactive authoring tool. Designers want to create engaging interactive content, but may resist making the transition from page layout to timeline-based thinking. But now it's much easier: InDesign CS5's new interactive features are intuitive and easy to learn. And once they've mastered those tools in the familiar world of InDesign, they'll find that Flash isn't scary after all. Designers already know how to add text, graphics, and geometric shapes to a page in InDesign, it's a short walk to adding interactive features. Before they know it, they're creating Flash content.

Contents:

Cover

Table of Contents

Introduction

Who Should Read This Book

What You'll Get Out of This Book

What This Book is Not

Software Requirements

About the Exercise Files

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 Meet Your New Toys

Let's Go Exploring

Looking Ahead

Chapter 2 Basic Interactivity and Navigation

Presentation

Navigation

Deployment

Adding Navigational Controls

Exporting to SWF

Chapter 3 Multimedia

Video

Audio

Chapter 4 Animation

What Can Be Animated?

Events

Motion Presets

Page Transitions

Chapter 5 Button Up

Button Events

Button Appearance

Creating Button Art in Illustrator

Creating Button Art in Photoshop

Button Actions

Chapter 6 Exporting and Deployment

Off to a Good Start

Graphics

Exporting to SWF From InDesign

Deploying SWF Files

Wrapping Up

Chapter 7 Exporting to Flash Professional

Preparing for Flash Professional

Lost in Translation

Editing in Flash Professional

Don't Be Afraid of Code

Chapter 8 Flash Catalyst

The Flash Catalyst Workspace

Basic Flash Catalyst Tools

Planning for Flash Catalyst

Building on Photoshop Files

Building on Illustrator Files

Chapter 9 Putting It All Together

Analyzing the InDesign Print Document

Adding Hyperlinks

Multistate Objects: Creating a Slideshow

Photoshop: Making Buttons

Adding Navigation Buttons

Assigning Actions to the Navigation Buttons

Animating a Headline

Adding a Video

Using Illustrator and Flash Professional

Importing Flash Animation into InDesign

Exporting the Finished Project

Index

Where are the Lesson files.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786612917974

9780132379052

0132379058

9781282917972

1282917978

9780132379045

013237904X

OCLC:

1027167322