If you’re a web designer looking for a better understanding of Flash Professional, then this is the place to start. Using some basic graphics, Paul Trani shows you the fundamentals of programming in ActionScript in the context of a real-world project that is optimized for the web.

Learn how to create visual content in ActionScript 3.0. Guest-star appearance by Adobe engineer Jim Corbett, the creator of ActionScript's display API.

Former Adobe Flex SDK team member Chet Haase shows you how to take advantage of the Flash rendering engine by creating filters, which are simple image processing operations you can perform on arbitrary graphics.