Here are 25 nicely written and easy to follow Flash
Tutorials from Spoono, the web designers'
playground. These free Flash training pages cover all Flash skill
levels: beginning, intermediate, and advanced.
8
Beginning Flash Tutorials:
Discover how to
create animated buttons with Flash and make OnMouse
animated buttons.
Custom
Cursor
This Flash
tutorial teaches you how to make a custom cursor for your
Flash movies.
Invisible
Button
Find out how to use the
invisible
button trick to improve your Flash applications by having only one
button instead of multiple buttons in your
library.
Object
Follow Mouse
This
shows you how to have a Flash object follow the mouse and increase and
decrease in speed depending on how far away the mouse is from the
object.
Simple
Text Bevel
This is an easy tutorial for
Flash beginners teaching you how to get a simple text
bevel effect.
Sound
Loops
Discover how to fix the issue
of a sound loop repeating itself
many times over and over again in Flash.
Learn how to create a
typewriter effect in Flash without using Actionscripts.
11
Intermediate Flash Tutorials:
Collapsing
Text Button
This Flash tutorial will show
you how to create a collapsing menu effect.
Collision
Detection
This Flash tutorial demonstrates
how to use hitTarget to detect collisions and use this technique in
your movies.
Double
Click
How to use Flash's getTimer() to
force users double click on an object.
Draggable
Masks
Find out how to use Flash to
dynamically create a mask and drag it across your movie.
Flash
and JavaScript
Discover how to have Flash
work and communicate with JavaScript.
Gravity
in Flash
Learn how to make a ball bounce
using Flash.
Movie
Functions
This Flash tutorial shows you
how to use several action scripts to change a movie
clip, such as move, stretch, fade, rotate and more.
Opposeable
Mouse Effect
Use Flash ActionScript to
create boxes that oppose the mouse pointer.
Revolving
Text Button
Find out how to create a
revolving text button effect using Flash.
Scrolling
This
Flash tutorial demonstrates how to import a text file into
Flash and then display it while scrolling.
Springy
Text Button
Create a springy text button
effect in Flash.
6 Adanced Flash Tutorials:
Learn how to create a digital timer
using Flash's getTimer() function.
Flash
and XML
Learn how to use Flash and XML to
create a simple phonebook application.
Keyboard
Movement - Part 1
Learn
the details of how to control a Flash movie clip using
the keyboard - part 1 of a 3-part tutorial.
Keyboard
Movement - Part 2
Learn
the details of how to control a Flash movie clip using
the keyboard - part 2 of a 3-part tutorial.
Keyboard
Movement - Part 3
Learn
the details of how to control a Flash movie clip using
the keyboard - part 3 of a 3-part tutorial.
25 Flash Tutorials from Spoono
August 7, 2007, 9:10 pmPhotoshop Tutorials from Heathrowe.com
August 6, 2007, 10:28 pmHere are very well produced Photoshop
Tutorials from Heathrowe.com, providing
Photoshop users an excellent set of over 75 Photoshop
tutorials for all skill levels. These tutorials offer
detailed screen-shots and step-by-step
instructions, giving you a good
understanding of the secrets beneath the tools. These Photoshop
tutorials are categorized by
their primary Tool Technique:
Photoshop
Tutorial Topics:
FrontPage 2000 Tutorial from Comm. College of RI
August 3, 2007, 7:57 pmHere is a step-by-step how FrontPage
2000 Tutorial from the Community College
of Rhode Island, describing how
to do the following tasks using FrontPage: Creating and Working with
Webs, Working with Page View, Working with Links, Formatting and
Developing Web Pages, Graphics and Animations, Working with
Tables, and Finalizing and Publishing a Website. These
tutorial lessons can also be used to learn many of these FrontPage
features in FrontPage XP and FrontPage 2003.
Contents
of FrontPage Tutorial:
Lesson
1 - Working with FrontPage
- Working with FrontPage Features
- Starting FrontPage
- Adding Content to a Home Page
- Adding Pages to a Web
- Saving a New Web Page
- Inserting a File into a Web Page
- Importing a File into a Web
- Deleting a Web Page
- Opening an Existing Web
- Opening a Web Page
- Switching between Open Web Pages
- Working with FrontPage Views
- Closing a Web Page
- Closing a Web
- Using Page View
- Adding, Editing, and Deleting Text
- Saving an Existing Web Page
- Moving and Copying FrontPage Elements
- Viewing the HTML Source Code
- Previewing a Web Page
- Linking to Other Web Pages
- Creating a Link to an Internet Resource
- Creating a Mailto Link
- Linking to a Location in a Web Page
- Following a Hyperlink
- Editing a Hyperlink
- Repairing a Hyperlink Automatically
- Inserting a Horizontal Line
- Creating a List
- Modifying the Properties of a List
- Adding a Background Color to a Web Page
- Sharing Background Properties
- Working with Graphics and Animations
- Inserting a Picture from a File
- Inserting a Picture from the Web
- Creating a Transparent Background
- Inserting a Table into a Web Page
- Adding and Deleting Rows or Columns
- Merging Cells in a Table
- Splitting Cells
- Aligning Text Vertically
- Adjusting the Properties of a Table
- Changing the Properties of a Cell
- Finalizing and Publishing a Web
- Repairing Hyperlinks
- Previewing a Web in a Browser
- Publishing a Web
Two Excellent Photoshop Tutorials
August 1, 2007, 3:45 pmHere are two excellent Photoshop
Tutorials from the University of Utah. These will help you
get up to speed quickly using either Photoshop CS or Photoshop 7. They
take you step-by-step through many important Photoshop features and
functionality related to editing and manipulating images and
photographs that you have downloaded from your digital camera or
scanned into your computer. These two tutorials teach
essentially the same features, use the one that is appropriate for your
version of Photoshop.
Using
Photoshop CS2 to Edit Images
(11
pages, 689 kb, pdf format)
Using
Photoshop 7 to Edit Images
(11
pages, 804 kb, pdf format)
Tutorial
Exercise One - Basics
For this exercise you will
start with a scanned photograph and make typical kinds of adjustments.
You will learn to use a variety of tools & functions including
•
Crop, Measure
• Rotate
• Zoom
•
Variations
Correcting the Exposure and Color Balance
When
correcting for exposure and color it’s helpful to have the
original picture in font of you.
Brightness/Contrast
Increasing
contrast makes the light areas lighter and the dark areas darker;
decreasing it makes the light areas darker and the dark areas lighter.
Tutorial
Exercise Two - Retouching Photos
In this exercise,
you'll use the following Photoshop features, and then proceed
to the others:
- Crop the image
-
Straighten the image
- Adjust the tonal rang
-
Removing a color cast (or imbalances of color)
-
Experiment with the various choices including the Tone
Balance.(Shadows, Midtones, Highlights)
Replacing
colors in an image
Options in the Replace Color command's
dialog box allow you to adjust the hue, saturation, and lightness
components of a selected area of the image. It helps to zoom in on the
area where you want to effect a change.
Sponge
tool - Adjusting saturation
When you change the saturation of
a color, you adjust its strength or purity. The Sponge Tool is useful
in letting you make subtle saturation changes to specific areas of an
image. We will use the sponge tool on the red and white stripped tarp
covering the main gondola in the picture.
Dodge Tool
- Adjusting lightness
Use the Dodge Tool to lighten the
highlights along the gondola's hull and exaggerate the reflection of
the water there.
Clone Stamp Tool -- Removing
unwanted objects
Use the Clone Stamp Tool to remove an object
or area by "cloning" an area of the image over the area you want to
eliminate.
Replacing part of an image
The
sky is fairly drab and overcast in this photograph. You will replace it
with a more interesting sky from another file.
Adding
Text
Adding a Layer Style (CS)
Horizontal Type Tool
(ver.7)
Warp Text (CS)
Move Tool (ver.7)
Applying
the Unsharp Mask filter (ver.7)
Flatten image into a single
layer
Tutorial Exercise Three - Working
with a LOGO
The goal in this short exercise is to
take a logo and make a modification to it.
Resolution
Explanations
- Image Resolution
-
Monitor Resolution
- Printer or Output Resolution
Photoshop
Tools
- Go to Adobe Online
-
Rectangular Marquee
- Lasso
- Crop
-
Healing Brush
- Clone Stamp
-
Eraser
- Blur
- Path Selection
-
Pen
- Notes
- Hand
-
Set Foreground color
- Default colors
-
Edit in Standard mode
- Move
-
Magic wand
- Slice
- Brush
-
History Brush
- Gradient
-
Dodge/Sponge
- Horizontal Type
-
Rectangle
- Eyedropper
- Zoom
-
Set Background color
- Edit in Quick mask mode
-
Full screen with menu mode or full screen
- Jump to
ImageReady
File Formats Explanations
-
Bitmap
- GIF
- JPEG
-
PICT
- TIFF