Adobe Edge Quickstart Guide: Quickly produce engaging motion and rich interactivity with Adobe Edge Preview 4 and above with this book and ebook

Joseph Labrecque

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Paperback Mar 2012 136 pages 1st Edition

Joseph Labrecque

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Learn to use Adobe's newest application to create engaging motion and rich interactivity
Familiarize yourself with the Edge interface and unleash your creativity through standard HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
Add motion and interactivity to your websites using Web standards
A quickstart guide for creating engaging content with Adobe Edge

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With the advent of HTML5 and CSS3, web designers can now create sophisticated animations without the need of additional plugins such as Flash. However, there hasn't been an easy way for creating animations with web standards until now. This book enables even those with little knowledge of HTML or programming web content to freely create a variety of rich compositions involving motion and interactivity.Learning Adobe Edge will quickly get you up and running with this professional authoring software to create highly engaging content which targets HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript. Content created in Adobe Edge does not rely on a plugin ñ so it can be run within any standard browserñ even on mobile.Learning Adobe Edge begins with an overview of the shifting web landscape and the Edge application. We then move on through the variety of panels and toolsets available, and explore the many options we have when creating motion and interactivity using Edge.The book presents the reasoning behind engaging, standards-based web content and how Edge fills the need for professional tooling in this area. In the book we'll examine content creation and how to achieve fluid animation and advanced transitioning through the Edge timeline. Sprinkled throughout the book are tips and references for those coming to Edge from a background in Flash Professional. Whether you are coming to Edge from Flash Professional or are totally new to motion graphics on the web, Adobe Edge Quickstart Guide provides a solid foundation of motion and interactivity concepts and techniques along with a set of demo assets to build upon.

Who is this book for?

If you are interested in creating engaging motion and interactive compositions using web standards with professional tooling, then this book is for you. Those with a background in Flash Professional wanting to get started quickly with Adobe Edge will also find this book useful.

What you will learn

Gain an understanding of the shifting Web landscape
Effectively compare Adobe Edge to Adobe Flash Professional motion tools
Become familiar with all elements of the Edge application interface
Use the drawing tools in Edge to create and manipulate elements on the Stage
Import rich graphics for use in Adobe Edge compositions
Animate a range of elements with full transitioning through timeline keyframes
Employ JavaScript to add interactivity to your project through Actions and Triggers
Author a range of expressive compositions using nothing but web standards

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Captain Kathy ST May 03, 2012

The excitement of a new technology can wane when we finally have to sit down and learn it. As web designers and developers, this is a never ending loop. Books, websites, and videos are key for us to keep up with the speed of so many new technologies. Finding the right media or author to learn that technology can be daunting with so many jumping in to fill the gap. Joseph is one of "those guys" who understands and picks up technologies like they are cherry pies in spring. Not only does he use them in his professional career in exciting ways, but he can teach them with a succinctness that is rare in technical publications.Adobe Edge brings to the user an application interface to build out HTML 5 animation that designers can understand as it creates the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript behind the scenes. Joseph utilizes screen shots and tips to provide clear descriptions of the menus and panels in Adobe Edge. Labrecque demonstrates similarities to menus and panels in other Adobe Creative Suite products that we have used for years, providing a familiarity to the new product to help the reader get up to speed quickly.The section on the tools in Edge is very through, and provides a solid understanding of how to use the tool and why. For the designer who has used similar tools in the past, the descriptions are so through, they can be used as a core refresher.Chapter 4 gets into the good stuff, creating animations. The book discusses the timeline and controls, then provides a project based experience as the user becomes more familiar with the Edge interface. Chapter 5 discusses interactivity in Edge. Again, Joseph steps through the process providing a clarity to the process that won't scare away the visual designer. He does not shy away from coding when it is necessary to provide custom interactivity or motion.As a visual designer who loves to make things move and not spend my time coding, I found this book provided what I needed to get up and running in Adobe Edge. I even enjoyed building out some interactivity, discovering it isn't all that difficult when taken one step at a time! All in all, this Quick Start Guide does just that, it gets you up and running in Adobe Edge quickly so you can focus on what you want to do, create animations.

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C. Moeller Aug 01, 2012

If you have been interesting in moving from creating content in flash, to creating content in "HTML5" that can be viewed on any standard web browser, this book is a great introduction to Adobe's newest tool.For a veteran of Flash, it compares the two side by side, showing what Edge can currently create (circa mid 1990s Flash). The book introduces and shows the new interface, teaches you how to work with tools and the timeline, as well as adding interactivity to your HTML5 based content. The book does a great job of showcasing Edge's strengths and weaknesses compared to using Flash.I found this book to be a great introduction to the Edge platform, and would think anyone that currently develops Flash content, or has been interested in getting into interactive web development would find interesting and useful.

W Boudville Jun 10, 2012

Labrecque gives you a quick read of Adobe's current response to the advent of HTML5 and CSS3. He reminds you that Edge is at his time of writing a pre-release tool from Adobe. Though by the time you read this, it may be in full release. Edge attempts to reduce the explicit coding effort needed to master HTML5 and CSS3. Still, you should take the time to learn as much as you can about the latter 2.An emphasis in the book is the ease of writing animation code. It also shows Edge as somewhat akin to a wrapper around jQuery, where the latter simplifies the use of JavaScript.There is hardly any explicit coding the book, by deliberate design. And the example code snippets are available for downloading from the publisher's website. The screen captures do convey the overall simplicity of using Edge, though as always, your needs might be more involved. There is the means to make some basic geometrical objects using a graphical authoring tool.Another aspect of Edge is how it permits the importing of external assets from other members of Adobe's suite, like Fireworks, Illustrator and Photoshop. The ability to integrate and use existing assets you developed elsewhere is unsurprising and may entice you to try Edge.

Frankly May 28, 2012

This book is very poor in coding animations, no code in how loading or creating or animate images dinamically for example. From the designer point of view could be interesting but I dont think ith worth the money I have spend one our intereacvely using the tutorials that comes with the preview itself and I almost have learn every basic thing that this book talt about. And If you already know Flash dont vent think in buying this book.

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