How To Cheat In Flash CS3-- A Critical Review - Rated 
How To Cheat in Adobe Flash CS3, Indispensable. A Critical Review.
I love this book for both what it teaches and the way the book is presented as a quick and fun way to master the software Flash (CS3).
How To Cheat...Flash, is the third of 3 essential books I've bought and am highly recommending for learning, advancing in Adobe Creative Suite 3. The first, the foundation book, CS3 For Dummies, is the essential resource book for learning what CS3 can do. Dummies differs from the more practical books of How to Cheat and the Adobe Illustrator CS3, WOW! book, in that it's function is only to layout all of the tools and how the tools are used in the Adobe CS3 Premium set. That's it. This is where books specifically for the use of showing real world examples are for and How To Cheat in Flash CS3 is phenomenal at it.
To say that an entire production suite that enables one to create artwork. Create animation. Repair photos. Design brochures. Create and publish websites--all of this is possible (and more with this Design Suite.), but there is a steep learning curve with all of the applications, if you're fully interested in doing really amazing work: this is why all three books are essential.
If you want to learn how do animation, whether in Flash or a similar program, this book is for you. It is as much a book about taking illustrations and converting them to computer illustrations and then to animated figures as it is about learning how the Flash software can take your ideas and make them a reality.
As I mentioned in my review of the Wow book for Illustrator CS3, How to Cheat... should be considered an addendum to Dummies. It is fully illustrated (the illustrations are worth the price alone!) and it also includes a fully-stocked cd room that accompanies the text. This book differs in style from the others in that author, Chris Georgenes, takes your basic illustrations and demonstrates basic routines. Then, Georgenes, builds on those elementary to more advanced projects. But, these projects are very attractive to the eyes and fun to read.
For graphic designers, illustrators, film animators, YouTube enthusiasts, marketing managers, web developers, novice website builders, this software and this book are indispensable.
Strongly recommended.
WOW !! - Rated
right i have to say that i was new to flash and well getting use to things is weird and all i love it but ww this book it has everythign you could need its a reliable source and everything, if uyour interested in this or sitting some sort of course id say get this book it would help you along sooooo much, walk cycles, 3d in 2d software, techniques everything about flash cs3 helped me alot =]
Fantastic - great tips for getting stuck in. - Rated
Someone said above it's too technical if you are a beginner. If by beginner you don't know how to open panels, use the drawing tools, change line colours etc then this book wont tell you how to do that stuff (as he says in the book that's what the adobe help files are for) which is why I love it.
I get so bored reading intricately detailed instructions from other books such as classroom in a book series ie "....click here, select that, paste that, open this window, if you don't know how to then do this....", this book assumes you know how to navigate your way around Flash and just lets you know how to achieve what you want to acheive.
You can use it from beginning to end or skip to the character chapters, drawing chapters etc etc. Each chapter is more advanced than the previous, and when I say advanced I don't mean code or anything (not found any in it so far) just that maybe masks comes after drawing, creating 3D like drawings comes after 2D drawing etc.
This is more like a workbook you'd get at school, gorgeously laid out with lovely graphics and not too much text. That's what adds to it's greatness.
A must-have for anyone who gets bored easily with the standard Flash textbooks.
One of the best - Rated
I have been using flash for years and there are still some great tricks that I have learnt from this book. I lecture flash at university to complete beginners and I intend to point them in the direction of this book. The exercises look great and are FUN to complete. Flash is not the easiest program to learn. The beauty of this book is that the content is so engaging, the exercises rewarding, you might not even notice you are learning along the way.
Top book even for beginners! - Rated 
You don't really need an advanced knowledge of Flash to use this book. How to cheat in flash is very, very good. It is targetted mostly at cartoon animators rather than users that will want to do Action Scripting, presentation or web development. This book will guide you through from start to finish for a lot of basic animation techniques and provides a good insight into how to implement your own ideas. it also gives instruction on how to perform commands etc on both the Windows and Mac. Again, I would only recommend this book if you are into cartoon animation mainly, otherwise there are probably better books out there.
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