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25 Flash Tutorials from Spoono

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:

Alpha/Onion Skin
This Flash tutorial instructs you how to get a cool alpha fading, onion skin type of effect used by many websites. Can be used for buttons, movie clips, anything.

Animated Button
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.

Typewriter Effect
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:

Advanced Preloader
Learn how to create a Flash preloader that specifies the percent, bytes loaded, bytes remaining, and more.

Digital Timer
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.


Photoshop Tutorials from Heathrowe.com

Here 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:  


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FrontPage 2000 Tutorial from Comm. College of RI

Here 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
Lesson 2 - Creating Webs
  • 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
Lesson 3 - Working with Webs
  • Opening an Existing Web
  • Opening a Web Page
  • Switching between Open Web Pages
  • Working with FrontPage Views
  • Closing a Web Page
  • Closing a Web
Lesson 4 - Working with Page View
  • 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
Lesson 5 - Working with Links
  • 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
Lesson 6 - Formatting and Enhancing Web Pages
  • Inserting a Horizontal Line
  • Creating a List
  • Modifying the Properties of a List
  • Adding a Background Color to a Web Page
  • Sharing Background Properties
Lesson 7 - Using Graphics and Animations
  • Working with Graphics and Animations
  • Inserting a Picture from a File
  • Inserting a Picture from the Web
  • Creating a Transparent Background
Lesson 8 - Working with Tables
  • 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
Lesson 9 - Finalizing and Publishing Webs
  • Finalizing and Publishing a Web
  • Repairing Hyperlinks
  • Previewing a Web in a Browser
  • Publishing a Web

Two Excellent Photoshop Tutorials

Here 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


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