Beginning and Advanced Flash Tutorials

Using Flash, you can develop and create rich multimedia web content sites with ease. Flash is a vector-based program, which means that the graphical information is stored in the form of mathematical formulae rather than pixel tables, so Flash files take up less space compared to animated graphic files. In addition to animations, Flash can be used to create complex multimedia content with interactivity, sound, drop down or scrolling menus, animated buttons, custom animated cursors and even games

Webdevelopersnotes.com offers the following excellent Flash tutorials to help you learn this important web development application. This site also offers some great advanced Flash tutorials, located below.

Flash Tutorials

The series of lessons in this tutorial guide you through the following features and concepts of Flash:

• Drawing tools.
• Frames, Layers and the Stage.
• Movie properties.
• Basic controls and commands available in the Flash menu.
• Embedding Flash in HTML pages.
• Symbols and why they are required.
• Creating and modifying symbols.
• Inspectors.

Here are the Flash tutorial pages:

• Flash design tutorial - Drawing tools in Flash
• Flash Tutorial - Using the Line tool
• Online Flash Tutorial - Drawing Geometrical shapes Part 1
• Flash Course - Drawing Geometrical shapes Part 2
• Flash Drawing Course - The Pencil Tool
• Flash Training Course - The Text Tool
• Free Flash Course - Brushes in Flash
• Online Flash Course - The Paint Bucket
• Flash Guide - Gradients
• Online Flash Guide - Transforming Gradient Fills
• Macromedia Flash Guide - The Ink Bottle
• Flash Lesson - The Dropper tool
• Flash Tutorial Lesson - The Hand and Magnifier Tools
• Flash Primer - The Eraser Tool
• Online Flash Primer - Modifying the movie properties
• Flash Lesson - Grouping, ungrouping and breaking apart
• Online Flash Lesson Free - The stacking order
• Flash Training Course - Aligning
• Online Flash Training Course - What are symbols?
• Flash Reference Guide - Creating and using symbols
• Online Flash Reference Guide - Creating Symbol Instances
• Macromedia Flash Tutorial - Modifying Graphic Symbol Instances
• Online Macromedia Flash Tutorial - Symbol and movie editing modes
• Flash Web Site Tutorial - Transform menu
• Free Flash Tutorial - Frames, keyframes and the time line
• Tutorial Flash - A view at View
• Flash 4 Tutorial - Inspectors
• Tutorial Flash - Tracing Bitmaps
• Flash Tutorial Beginner - Onion Skinning
• Flash Tutorial Example - Flash Controls
• Flash Programming Tutorial - Importing
• HTML Flash tutorial - Publishing and Exporting
• Flash HTML Tutorial - Embedding Flash movies in HTML web pages
• Conclusions

Advanced Flash Tutorials

These Flash tutorials will help you learn how to make things move around using Flash and to bring interactivity to Flash movies. User interactivity is created by capturing user actions, such as mouse movement, clicking with the mouse button, or keyboard input. The information generated through these actions, or events, is passed to the Flash Event Handlers. Then complex interactivity is developed by ActionScript, which is Flash's simple programming language. Animation and interactivity can be accomplished only with symbols. Symbols, you will recall can be of three types, graphic, button or movie. Each of the following lessons in these advanced Flash tutorials explains how to make a small animated or interactive movie. These movies can then serve as building blocks to more complex movies.

• Flash Animation Course - Motion tweening
• Flash Text Effect Tutorial - Fades
• Flash web site design tutorial - Fade-in and fade-out effect
• Flash animation tutorial - Fade and motion tween together
• Special Effects in Flash
• Online Flash Help - Splits
• Shape tweening in Flash
• Flash Tutorial Animation - Tween Properties
• Motion on a defined path in Flash
• Flash Mask Tutorial - Masking
• Button tutorial Flash - Simple buttons
• Flash Button Tutorial - Animated button
• Flash tutorial - Scroll Menu
• Flash ActionScript Tutorial - Mouse drags