Macromedia Flash is the fastest way to create rich Internet content and applications. "Naked Macromedia Flash MX 2004" teaches the skills behind Flash, and shows you how to apply smart design principles to multimedia products, such as dynamic graphics, animation, Web sites, video, and interactive CD-ROM content. With this book as a guide, you will be well on your way to learning professional graphic design and multimedia skills!

Great book, but expect to work for it
The format of this book is similar to the other two titles in the Naked series, (Fireworks, and Dreamweaver). There are a lot of Flash books out there, but this one is way above the rest. This method of learning works well for me, but means you have to do the "projects". The book has excellent diagrams and pictures, which is important when trying to learn Flash, since you need to go all over the workspace to make a movie.......I had written more here, but the Amazon system erased it.