Here are Top 22 Flash Tutorials hosted and linked by Creativepro.com. These will teach and show you how to do many things for your web sites using Flash, including how to implement sound, use bitmapped images, create movies and animations, switch between video clips, animate masks, and more.


Making Flash Roar - Part 1
This is the first part of a Flash tutorial on how sounds help tell the story and enhance the mood, letting the audience know whether something is funny, scary, or important.

Making Flash Roar - Part 2
This is the second part of a Flash tutorial on how sounds help tell the story and enhance the mood, letting the audience know whether something is funny, scary, or important.

Flash MX: Enabling the Rich Internet
Macromedia's new vision of Flash offers video and audio integration, a polished and streamlined interface, and enhanced graphic tools.

Too Much Flash on the Brain
Contributing editor Pamela Pfiffner joins Lynda Weinman in a look at the bleeding edge of Web design using Flash.

Flash without Flash
At the recent Thunder Lizard Web Design Conference in Atlanta, a certain brilliant woman posited that "SWF is the PostScript of the twenty-first century."

How to use bitmapped images in Flash 5
Learn how to use photographic bitmapped images in Flash to add depth to the background of a Web site, enhance buttons and other interactive elements.

Flash in a Flash
Find out how the author created several Flash animated shorts for a Web site, and he did them all in six weeks.

Creating Flash Animations in Adobe Illustrator
Learn how to use the Release to Layers functions in Flash to generate animated SWF files.

Flash Explores New Angles
Macromedia's Flash MX allows users to do a number of cool tricks, including switching instantaneously between video clips.

Flash Physics: Velocity and Acceleration
Flash, by definition, brings 2D drawing to life. But it lets you do even more: To give your Flash animations a sense of realistic movement, discover how to use the laws of physics and mimic the way objects behave in nature.

Optimize Preloading with Flash 5
This Flash tutorial teaches how to optimize the size of your Flash files, when they are packed with audio and imported graphics.

Macworld's Flash 5 Expert Guide
Flash's unintuitive interface, click-intensive dialogs, and limited scripting support have been known to inspire a love-hate relationship between the program and developers. Sure, you can do amazing things in Flash, but it isn't easy.

Becoming a Flash 5 Master: Lesson 1
Learn how to add snappy interactivity and animations to your Web pages using Flash and without scripting any DHTML.

Flash 5: Shared Libraries
Flash 5 introduces several features that make it easier to control external files and share resources across a project. In this walkthrough we'll make a gadget that works like a child's toy keyboard, using an external linked graphic symbol and the new ActionScripting syntax.

Flash Your E-mail
Would you like to have a signature file on your emails that instantly tells recipients you are a good designer? Would you like to bring your client's newsletters to life with all the capabilities of Flash animation? Then this Flash tutorial is for you.

Hierarchical Menus in Flash
Find out how to create a Hierarchical Menu using Flash. This menu works when the user clicks on the arrow or plus sign, and a sublist of items expands below it pushing everything else down.

From Fireworks to Flash and Back
Fireworks takes care of the bitmap images while Flash handles the vector graphics and animation controls. Learn how to easily import native Fireworks files into Flash, and perform some round-trip editing techniques that make these two applications a perfect combination.

Off the Beaten Path with Flash and LiveMotion
Learn how to animate objects along a custom motion path in Flash and LiveMotion.

Animating Masks in Flash and LiveMotion
Animated masks in Flash and LiveMotion can produce a compellnig effect by revealing only one part of the underlying animation at a time. By including masks in your animations, you can add a sense of complexity and interest.

Getting Started with Coldfusion MX and Flash Remoting
How to use Flash Remoting, allowing you to use ColdFusion MX functionality in your Macromedia Flash movies easily, using familiar Macromedia Flash syntax and objects.

Making a Splash with Flash: An Animation Primer
This tutorial reviews Flash's user interface and then demonstrates how to use it to build a basic Flash animation, that would be suitable for an introduction movie for your Web site.

One Approach to Mastering Flash
Learn the intricacies of Flash's Tell Target command, which is used to manage and manipulate nested video clips.

Here are 17 freely available Flash ebooks, in pdf format, available from salaam.cs.buap.mx/EBOOKS/FLASH/. These cover many areas and features of Flash, including making Flash movies, ActionScript, building a Flash web site, and more.


17 Flash eBooks

 - Macromedia Flash MX Techniques
 - Flash 4 Manual
 - Flash MX 2004 ActionScript eBook
 - Flash MX Actionscript eBook
 - Flash MX Tutorials
 - How to Make Flash & PHP Talk
 - Learning Flash
 - Macromedia Flash  Making movies
 - Macromedia Flash MX Building a 100% Flash Site
 - Macromedia Flash MX Actionscript eBook
 - Macromedia Flash MX eBook
 - Macromedia Flash MX Tutorials
 - Macromedia Flash MX  Manual
 - Play Piano In A Flash
 - Using Flash
 - Learning Flash MX 2004
 - Flash MX Level 1

CreativePro hosts and links to 613 Photoshop Tutorials and Articles that teach and explain virtually all of the many features and functions of Photoshop. These include tutorials for several Photoshop version, including Photoshop CS, Photoshop 8, and Photoshop 7. Here are some of their Photshop tutorials.


Photoshop How-To: Using Adjustment Layers
Learn how to use adjustment layers with layers and curves when editing images in Photoshop without degrading the image data.

Photoshop How-To: Aging Metal Textures
How to transform a plain gray background into a textured, rusty surface.

Photoshop How-To: Creating Contact Sheets, Picture Packages, and Online Galleries
Discover Photoshop's features that allow you to create contact sheets, picture packages, and online galleries.

Photoshop How-To: Seeing the Big Pixel
This Photoshop tutorial teaches you how to add pixelated masks to an image for a very modern effect.

Photoshop How-To: Making Painted-Paper Illustrations
In this Photoshop tutorial, Luanne Seymour Cohen instructs how to create collages out of digital rather than paper.

Retouching Images Using Photoshop with Bert Monroy, Part 1
Photoshop craftsman Bert Monroy teaches you how to retouch an image using Photoshop.

The Photoshop CS Camera Raw Dialog Box
This Photoshop tutorial shows you how to manipulate the additional data contained in RAW image files to give your photos more detail.

Take Advantage of Photoshop Actions
Find out how Photoshop actions let you automate just about any task.

Photoshop How-To: Weaving Layer Contents
Learn how to weave layered elements together in Photoshop so they do not appear as a simple stack.

Miracle Tools: Photoshop's Healing Brush and Patch
In Photoshop 7.0, learn how to use the Healing Brush and Patch tools to retouch images.

Creating Rollovers In Photoshop CS and ImageReady CS
Tanya Staples show you how to create rollover images in ImageReady CS and Photoshop CS using templates, palletes, layers, and by hand.

Photoshop How-To: Adding Bleeds and Crop Marks
This Photoshop how to shows you two ways to add print marks, such as crop marks and bleeds to your Photoshop file.

Photoshop How-To: Making a DVD Menu
Find out how to make a DVD menu to be used in Encore DVD using Photoshop.

The Shadow/Highlight Tool In Photoshop CS: Breathing New Life Into Your Images
This PhotoshopCS tutorials explains how to use the Shadow/Highlight (S/H) tool so you have more control over the dark (shadow) and light (highlight) areas of your images.

Design How-To: Adding Photographic Texture to Type
Using Photoshop and a photograph, learn how to create textures for display text.

Out of Gamut: Calibrating Camera Raw in Photoshop CS
Learn how to use Photoshop's Camera Raw plug-in to create custom color profiles for digital cameras.

Photoshop How-To: Compositing Images with Color and Shadow
Photoshop master John Lund shows how to combine multiple images and photos into single scenes and images.

Photoshop How-To: Going from Brunette to Blond
Learn how to use adjustment layers in Photoshop to lighted hair color.

Photoshop How-To: Restoring Damaged Photos
Discover these Photoshop digital techniques for repairing creased, torn, and damaged photos.

Photoshop How-To: Super-Smooth Skin
Here's a Photoshop technique using the Healing Brush to create perfectly flawless, smooth skin.

Creating Color-Consistent Panoramas with Photoshop CS
Photoshop guru Russell Brown shows you how to use PhotoMerge in Photoshop CS to merge photos in the same scene.

Using Layer Comps to Create Variations in Photoshop CS
Use Layer Comps in Adobe Photoshop CS...a simple click in the palette to Save New Layer Comp, lets you name and save your current view of layer visibility and editing state as a Layer Comp.

Photoshop CS How-To: Placing Type on a Path
This Photoshop CS tutorial teaches you the ability to place type along a path using the new type-on-a-path feature. You can create a path with the Pen tool, a shape tool, even add text along a path created from type.

Color Replacement in Photoshop CS
Learn how to use the Color Replacement tool in Adobe Photoshop CS to perform color replacement on your image in a single step.

Sessions Online School of Design provides fee-based courses in Graphic Design, Web Design, Multimedia, and Digital Art. However, they offer 18 well produced Free Course Video Modules in The Art & Design Video Tutorial Library. These will help you develop your skills and techniques in digital arts and design using Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Flash, Graphic Design, Painting, and Drawing. Free registration is required.