Product Description

Two of the savviest Flash experts in the industry show you how to add impact to your Web content. Robert Reinhardt and Snow Dowd know all the techniques and tricks, and they take you under the hood in this one–stop total reference guide to Flash CS3 Professional. Follow their tutorials, learn from cool examples, and discover insider secrets you won′t find in any other book. Don′t miss the special 16–page color insert loaded with spectacular examples. Also includes a CD–ROM.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #37334 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-09
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 1232 pages

From the Back Cover
Deliver winning Flash content with this one–stop guide

Two of the savviest Flash experts in the industry show you how to add impact to your Web content. Robert Reinhardt and Snow Dowd know all the techniques and tricks — and they take you under the hood in this one–stop total reference guide to Flash CS3 Professional. Follow their tutorials, learn from cool examples, and discover insider secrets you won′t find in any other book. Don′t miss the special 16–page color insert loaded with spectacular examples.

• Learn Flash CS3′s vector–based drawing program

• Use filters, effects, masks, and layers to add impact

• Unravel the nuts and bolts of ActionScript 3.0 code

• Integrate sound, video, and graphics

• Apply HTML and Text Field formatting

• Create a game in Flash and win

• Add interactivity and publish your Flash movies

What′s on the CD–ROM?

The CD includes the original Flash project files with ActionScript code for the examples in the book, along with custom components for image loading and effects.

See the CD appendix for details and complete system requirements.

About the Author
Robert Reinhardt is Vice President of the Multimedia Platforms group for Schematic and a highly respected authority on Flash and Flash Video. He created the screen graphics for Sean Penn′s film The Pledge, a Flash Web site for the film Training Day, and other projects.

Snow Dowd is a coprincipal at [theMAKERS] and has worked with Robert Reinhardt on various high–profile multimedia projects.

Customer Reviews

excellent but out of date
I recently finished reading this and enjoyed every minute of it, it is a very good book in how it explains how to do things in the visual way in Flash CS3 and using AS 1.0 & 2.0. But this is where it falls short. There is hardly any AS 3.0 scripting so essentually it is great but flawed. If it was all AS 3.0 you wouldn't need any other book. But, I find myself reverting to other sources of AS 3.0 training I have done before this book. As for the accompining AS 3.0 bible (is this maybe why only AS 1 & 2 in this book?) it is very minimal in its explaination and lacks any decent examples in its coverage of AS 3.0. Look at the Lynda books.

Id give this book 5 stars for its tutorial of using Flash CS3 and AS 2.0 but 1 star for its tutoring of AS 3.0.

Overal still worth having in your collection at the price.

A Must Have Resource
Having bought all the books produced by these authors (and read them from start to finish) I can say the comment about it being a copy of the previous Flash 8 Bible is in part the way true. Sure there is a lot of the same information, but it needs to be there. There is about 200 pages out of the book which contain new information, however, it is mixed in well and adds value, so you need to read it to find it.

Because who knows exactly who the audience will be, and at what level?

Anyway, I have again read this through and if you take the time to do this you will see all the new features and interface changes and explanations are there for the new CS3 Flash. I now use this as my "refer to" book instead of the old one, so it is great having the "old" information there to! I don't need to look up two books.

The authors of this book know what they are doing and can relay the information in an easy to understand and very interesting way, so even if you have read the previous book cover to cover you will still want to read this one the same. It never hurts to go over old information as well; it is amazing how many things you remember that you forgot!

So my comment here would be if you want to see and test the new FLASH interface out, then you will want to seriously consider this book. I am glad I bought it and I will continue to get their products in the future, so I have to give it a 5 start for consistency and taking the time to include the "old" with the "new". The only complaints I could add is that it may have helped to use new examples, the ones they use are from the old book and it was a little boring on that level. Still it was a good refresher even if it was the same examples!

Well worth getting, even if it is just to replace the Flash 8 book!

FLASH CS3 without ActionScript 3.0 !!!!!!!!
Almost 99% content in this book are basen on AS 1.0 and AS 2.0 !!!!!

If you are looking for books about Flash CS3 and AS 3.0, don't buy it !!!!