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15 Flash Tutorials

computer_teacher — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 21:41:23 +0000

Here are 15 Flash Tutorials at developertutorials.com that show you how to create better and more compelling Flash animations and also how to optimize Flash pages for SEO.

15 Flash Tutorials:

SEO: How to optimize Flash pages (Part II)
SEO: How to optimize Flash pages (Part I)
Flash Momentum Tutorial
Flash Race Car Tutorial
Customized Cursor in Flash
How to Change the Movie Visibility Using Action Script
Changing Colors for the Flash Movie
Using Symbols in Flash
Customized Right Click Menu in Flash
Creating a Professional Looking Animated Preloader
Flash 5 Tutorial
Flash MX 2004 Layers and Animation Explained
Building Easy Text or Images Scrolling with Flash MX 2004
Using the Flash Toolbar

104 Excellent Flash Tutorials

computer_teacher — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 04:18:48 +0000

Here are 104 excellent Flash Tutorials from foundation-flash.com. These are all free and include 18 Flash video tutorials. They begin by introducing the Flash interface and demonstrating the most important Flash fundamentals, and then move to more advanced features and Flash topics. Many of these Flash tutorials use game development of their subject. All of the topics are detailed and explained thoroughly so they’re easy to understand, even those covering advanced features.

18 Flash Video Tutorials

- Interface
- The Timeline / Layers
- The Toolbox
- The Align Panel
- The Library Panel
- Motion Tweening
- Shape Tweening
- Blurring
- Publish Settings
- Setting Document Class
- The Stop Action
- Gradient Fills
- Easing and Rotation
- Motion Guides
- Masking
- Buttons
- Button Coding
- Interface (CS4)

Basic Flash Tutorials
These tutorials will teach you how to tween, animate, and much more. They contain no Actionscript code.

- Intro to Flash / Download
- The Interface
- The Timeline
- The Toolbox
- The Align and Library Panels
- Motion Tweening
- Shape Tweening
- Easing, Rotation and Motion Guides
- Movie Clips
- Buttons
- Masking
- How to link library symbols
- Angles and Lengths
- Reverse Angles
- Blur filter tween
- Shape Hints
- SWF protection
- Bitmap to vector
- Backwards compatibility

ActionScript 3 Tutorials
ActionScript 3 is more recent than ActionScript 2 and is availabe with CS3 or later.

- Setting up a project for later
- Must Read Basics
- Function/Method Declaration.
- Drawing a circle
- enterFrame Event
- More and altering events
- Using an image from the library
- Understanding Depth
- String Functions
- Drawing by Mouse
- Simple HitTest
- Move to Mouse
- Setting Depth
- Pong (1) – Handling the Keyboard
- Pong (2) – Fast paced action
- Pong (3) – Creating our rally
- A Friendly guide to the Timer class
- Packages
- Pong (4) – Scoring our game
- More Useful String Functions
- Avoider (1) – Setting up
- Avoider (2) – The Player
- Avoider (3) – Targets, scoring
- Avoider (4) – Finishing up: Enemies
- Debugging
- Compiler Errors
- Runtime Errors
- Dragging & Dropping
- Basic Sound In AS3
- Custom Cursors
- Rotation in AS3
- Command Line
- Digital Clock
- URL-Loading Button
- Analog Clock
- Classes (and farms!)
- Point-and-Click Game
- Gravity and bounce

ActionScript 2 Tutorials
Use these tutorials if you have Adobe Flash 8 or earlier.

- The STOP Action
- URL Direction Button
- Arrow-Key Movement
- Number Matching Game
- Duplication
- Custom Cursors
- How to refer to symbols in ActionScript
- Simple Hittest
- Functions
- Removing Movie Clips
- Arcade Game
- Arcade Game Bullets
- Swish timings
- Drawing by mouse
- Rotation in Flash
- Gravity and Bounce
- Sound Manipulation
- Hiding the right-click menu
- Turret game (1) – The turret
- Turret game (2) – A slight detour
- XML in Flash

ActionScript Concepts
These tutorials demonstrate the proamming language constructs of ActionScript: if, else, try, for, while, var, etc.

- Traces and Comments
- Variables: Info Stores
- For Loops
- Arrays
- If, Else and Else If
- While loops
- Array Functions
- Try, Catch and Finally
- Constructor function

eBooks for Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, Flash, and Dreamweaver

computer_teacher — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:44:08 +0000

Here are 6 freely available ebooks covering 5 Adobe applications as linked here. These are Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, Flash, and Dreamweaver.

Adobe Application eBooks:

- Photoshop Quick Reference ebook

- Adobe Illustrator ebook

- Fireworks ebook

- Flash MX ebook

- Flash ebook 2

- Dreamweaver ebook

Flash and ActionScript References and Cheat Sheets

computer_teacher — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:44:40 +0000

Here are some excellent Flash and ActionScript References and Cheat Sheets at appletree’s quick reference cards. Adobe Flash is a multimedia platform for adding animation and interactivity to web pages. Flash is commonly used to integrate video and sound into web pages to create animation and compelling multimedia presentations. These ActionScript and Flash reference materials will help you work more efficiently and effectively with Flash. These are in pdf and jpg format.

Adobe Flash Platform Rich Internet Application Development 2.1M
This document provides an insight of the Adobe Flash platform for creating rich internet applications.

Flash CS4 OSX Shortcuts 275K
This document discusses the keyboard shortcuts for Adobe Flash on the OSX platform.

Flash CS3 Quick Reference 347K
This is a quick reference that details the fundamentals, tools and keyboard shortcuts of Flash CS3.

Flash ActionScript quick reference 200K
This document is a quick reference to the operators, program flow control, global functions, constants and compiler directives in ActionScript.

Actionscript 3.0 Flash Display 217K
This document discusses the display functions used in ActionScript for displaying various objects.

Actionscript 3.0 Migration 90K
This is a migration document for converting ActionScript 2.0 code to ActionScript 3.0.

Actionscript 3.0 Packages 24K
This document provides a list of ActionScript 3.0 packages.

Actionscript 3.0 Top Level 50K
This document provides a brief look at the top level functions of ActionScript 3.0.

Actionscript 3.0 Migration Cheatsheet 90K
This document acts as a cheatsheet for migration to ActionScript 3.0.

AcitionScript 3.0 Cheatsheet Migration 90K
This document is a quick preference that provides migration information on migrating applications to ActionScript 3.0.

AcitionScript 3.0 Cheatsheet Top Level 50K
This document provides a top level look at the functions, constants, classes and arguments used in ActionScript 3.0.

7 Flash ActionScript eBooks

computer_teacher — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:04:57 +0000

I just wrote a post on intelligentedu.com/blogs for 7 Flash ActionScript 3.0 eBooks that you may want to take a look at if you’re seeking more information and to learn about Flash ActionScript. Here is the direct link to these ebooks.

18 Flash Tutorials

computer_teacher — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:23:31 +0000

These 18 excellent Flash Tutorials, at tutorialsportal.com, provide users with a lot of information on the basic and advanced features of Flash and how to go about working with it. Flash, from Adobe, is a very popular method for adding animation and enhanced user interaction to web pages. Flash files are generally created and imported into web pages. The Flash tutorials below demonstrate how to create effects in Flash such as glowing lights, flowing water and drawing on paper along with animations such as shine, a writing pen, and scratchy film animation. All these Flash tutorials are explained in a simple and easy to understand format with quick tips and tricks to help quicken the workflow.

18 Flash Tutorials:

- Scratchy Film Animation
- Create an Animated Shine
- Learn How to Dress Jessica Rabbit
- Customize Your Cursor in 3 Easy Steps
- Animate a Writing Pen
- Glowing Christmas Lights
- Create a ‘Drawing’ Effect in Flash
- Make an Object Move Along a Path
- How to Make a Character Walk
- Water Effect
- Mouse Cursor Appearance
- Scratchy Film Animation
- Create an Animated Shine
- Animate a Writing Pen
- Glowing Christmas Lights
- Create a ‘Drawing’ Effect in Flash
- Make an Object Move Along a Path
- How to Make a Character Walk

12 Excellent Flash Tutorials

computer_teacher — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:25:51 +0000

Here are 12 excellent Flash Tutorials at Adobe Design Center Dialogbox. Using these Flash tutorials, we look at how to make things move around and bring interactivity to Flash movies. 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. These Flash tutorials contain a variety of intermediate and advanced techniques and features of this popular interactive web multimedia application.

12 Flash Tutorials:

- Adobe - Flash: Encoding Flash Video
- Achieve amazing easing effects in Flash (pdf, 482 kb 10 pages)
- Adobe - tutorial: Comping your next design in Flash
- Adobe Design Center – Animator’s toolkit
- Adobe - Flash CS3 tutorial : Preparing and building microsites
- Creating Flash Video from Premiere
- Adobe - Flash: Encoding Flash Video
- Adobe Design Center – Creating a talking-head Flash video
- Adobe Design Center – Achieve amazing easing effects in Flash
- How Interactivity and Storytelling Sell a Movie (pdf, 1018 Kb, 3 pages)
- Adobe Design Center – Motion and Digital Media
- Adobe Design Center – Video on the web: Getting started

4 Flash Tutorials

computer_teacher — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 02:30:36 +0000

Here are 4 excellent Flash Tutorials at California Polytechnic State University. These Flash MX 2004 tutorials will teach you how to use Flash in your applications to create interactive and animated Web sites. They start off with an introduction to various Flash interfaces and tools. Then the tutorials cover many animation and navigation tools that are available in Flash for your use. After finishing this course of four Flash tutorials you will be able to create some great applications using this application. These Flash tutorials are in pdf format.

4 Flash Tutorials:

Flash MX 2004 Interface / Tools Introduction (667 Kb, 18 pages)
This section gives you a basic introduction to the world of Flash development. Various Flash MX interfaces and tools are explained here in this section.

- Working with the Timeline
- Moving the playhead
- Frames and keyframes
- Working with layers
- About the Property inspector
- About the Library panel
- Components in the Library panel
- Working with common libraries
- Draw vector art
- Drawing curved paths with the Pen tool
- Adjusting anchor points on paths
- Reshaping using the Selection tool
- Optimizing curves
- About overlapping shapes in Flash
- Erasing
- Transforming objects freely
- Scaling objects
- Add text
- Creating scrolling text
- Aligning objects
- Tweened animation
- Frame-by-frame animation
- Layers in animation
- Creating keyframes
- Representations of animations in the Timeline
- Examples

Flash MX 2004 Introduction Lesson (644 Kb, 7 pages)
This section explains some of the introductory topics on Flash. Basic procedures like creating a new document, opening a new document, defining document properties, creating movie clips, drawing rectangle are illustrated here.

- Creating a new document
- Open a new document
- Define document properties
- Adding media content
- Add text
- Create a movie clip
- Add text
- Resize with Free Transform tool
- Drawing a rectangle
- Copy / Paste Text
- Common Library

Flash MX 2004 Animation Lesson (182 Kb, 7 pages)
Here in this third section teaches lessons on animation. The subjects which are covered in this section are playing with frames, motion between animation, onion skinning, drawing with pencil tool, creating a motion tween etc.

- Opening a document
- Opening the library
- Grouping objects
- Frames and keyframes
- Onion skinning
- Creating frame-by-frame animations
- Copying and pasting frames
- Frames and keyframes
- Motion between animation
- Test the application
- Copy / Paste Text
- Drawing ovals
- Create a movie clip
- Grouping objects
- Onion skinning
- Creating frame-by-frame animations
- Copy / Paste Text
- Drawing with the Pencil tool
- Create a movie clip
- Tweening shapes
- Creating a motion tween

Flash MX Navigation Lesson (27 Kb, 4 pages)
This section helps you to create the over all design (user interface) and setup home page navigation.

Flash Tutorials and Free Flash Templates

computer_teacher — Wed, 20 May 2009 03:34:01 +0000

These 15 Flash Tutorials and Free Flash Templates at Metamorphosis Design will help you get started on and improve your skills with web designing in Flash. These Flash tutorials explain web site creation in Flash MX 2004, which include animation, text effects, and customized mouse click actions. Also discussed are movie creation and other little widgets that can be easily incorporated into Flash based web sites. The Flash templates section provides you with free templates that can be downloaded and used on your web sites.

15 Flash Tutorials:
These Flash tutorials explain basic workflows in Flash MX 2004 to create and control animation, creating professional preloaders, and transparency control. The creation of simple Flash widgets such as a clock and a calculator are also explained.

- Flash MX 2004 Layers and Animation Explained
- Creating basic buttons in Flash MX 2004
- Creating Animated Professional Looking Preloader Step-by-step in Flash MX 2004
- Adding and Controlling Music in a Flash Movie.
- Dropdown Menu in Flash MX 2004
- Customized Right Click Menu in Flash MX 2004
- Customized Cursor in Flash MX 2004
- Building Easy Text or Images Scrolling with Flash MX 2004
- Changing Colors for the Flash Movie in Flash MX 2004
- How to Change the Movie Visibility Using Action Script in Flash MX 2004
- Drag-and-drop objects using mouse in Flash MX 2004
- Moving shapes or objects using keyboard in Flash MX 2004
- Creating Mask Effect in Flash MX 2004
- Put Flash Clock on Your Website
- Simple Flash Calculator in Flash 8

Free Flash Templates:
These free Flash templates provide templates that users can work with. The linked tutorials here teach simple Flash activities while working with the templates, such as opening a Flash file, publishing the Flash movie, changing text in Flash, and uploading files to a server.

- Installing Fonts
- Opening an FLA file
- Changing text in Flash
- Edit text in Flash templates
- Assigning links in Flash
- Publishing Your Flash Movie
- How to upload files to a server

28 Flash Tutorials

computer_teacher — Tue, 12 May 2009 01:50:05 +0000

Here are 28 Flash Tutorials at SmartWebby that show you how to do animations and code Actionscript in Flash, both of which go hand in hand. Animation is an important aspect of working in Flash as it is used to make rich interactive content for websites. ActionScript is usually intertwined with almost all animation in Flash as the control lies in ActionScript code. It is important to note that some basic animation can be carried out without using ActionScript, and that ActionScript allows greater control and flexibility to the animations. These Flash tutorials also cover advanced topics like outline effects, shape hints, text effects, and advanced buttons, and using Flash with ASP and VBScript.

Flash Animation Tutorials:
These Flash tutorials teach the basics of animation, the symbols allowed and the effects that Flash allows on a symbol.

- Flash Symbols
- Basics of Flash Animations
- Creating Attractive Graphics in Flash
- Advanced Flash Buttons
- Using Sound in Flash Buttons
- Cool & Simple Flash Effects
- Basics of Using Text in Flash

Flash Actionscript Tutorials:
These Actionscript tutorials demonstrate how to use ActionScript to carry out simple animation such as controlling a movie clip, creating a preloader and adding sounds to the animation.

- Creating a Custom Cursor in Flash.
- Starting & Stopping Movieclips in Flash
- Displaying HTML Text in Flash
- Displaying Time in Flash
- Sound On/Off Buttons in Flash
- Creating Text Scrollbars in Flash
- Simple Flash Preloader
- Bringing External Data into Flash

Advanced Flash Tutorials:
These Flash tutorials teach advanced aspects of animation and how to optimize them, along with creating advanced text and background effects.

- Advanced Buttons
- How to optimize animations
- Outline Effect
- Shape Hints
- Sinewave Background Effect
- Text Effects

SmartWebby’s Guide to Flash ‘n’ ASP:
This is a quick must read section of Flash that cover a host of topics such as integrating Flash with ASP, preparing the stage for animation, database interaction and field validation.

- Introduction
- Basics of Flash and ASP
- Preparing the Stage
- Sending Data from your Flash form to the database
- Getting Data from the database into your Flash form
- Flash preloader that waits for the data to load
- Validation of fields in Flash forms using JScript and VBScript

Quick Flash Tutorial

computer_teacher — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:00:15 +0000

Here is a quick Flash Tutorial at Brown University. This Flash tutorial discusses the use of the timeline in Flash programming. The tutorial also explains how to create symbols and animate objects, and another section describes object rotation and tweened animation, which causes objects on the screen to change shape and size. Embedding of audio and music in Flash movies is also demonstrated. A most important use of the Flash movie is to embed it in an HTML file and this aspect is also discussed in detail in this Flash tutorial.

Flash Features Taught by this tutorial:

Tools and Timeline In Flash:
- Timeline
- Creating Symbols
- Tweened Animation
- Motion Guides
- Shape Tween
- Object Rotation

Buttons In Flash:
This section has a step by step explanation of creating a button to replay the animation.

Sound/Music In Flash:
Do you want to add sound/music to you animation? This section describes how to do that.

Saving Flash Files:
This section explains how to save a flash file..

Embedding Flash into an HTML File:
If you want to embed Flash into an HTML file, this section helps you do that.

12 Flash Tutorials

computer_teacher — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 04:45:17 +0000

Here are 12 Flash Tutorials, from alistapart.com, that cover Flash basics, inserting rich media and the aesthetics of designing in Flash. These Flash tutorials also demonstrate gaming and game creation in Flash using ActionScript, Layers and Positioning. Flash has set about various trends in design and layout and this aspect is explored in depth here. A small section on Flash MX is provided which details authoring in Flash MX and Flash 6. These Flash tutorials also explain platform and browser limitations with regards to Flash, and areas of improvement such as Tab Order, Document Structure, Voicing Strategy and ‘Skip to Content’ links.

12 Flash Tutorials:

- Semantic Flash: Slippery When Wet
- Flash Embedding Cage Match
- Bye Bye Embed
- Flash Satay: Embedding Flash While Supporting Standards
- Flash MX: Moving Toward Accessible Rich Media
- Flash MX: Clarifying the Concept
- The Flash Aesthetic
- Game Design in Flash 5, Part II: Heroes & Villains
- Flash’s Got a Brand New Bag
- The Declination of Independence
- Flash Access: Unclear on the Concept
- Sympathy for the Plug-in

59 Flash Tutorials

computer_teacher — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:46:16 +0000

21 Flash Tutorials

computer_teacher — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:59:59 +0000

Here are 21 Flash Tutorials at bukisa.com that deal with creating animation and effects for web pages. Flash, earlier developed by Macromedia and currently by Adobe, is a popular application for integrating animation, audio and video in web pages to create rich Internet applications. These Adobe Flash Tutorials demonstrate Flash-based concepts such as masks, transitions, sound, and programming using Flash, not to mention animation tools such as Adobe Flex. To get you up and running in Flash, they show you how to download and install Flash players for browsers and using drag-and-drop components to develop a top-of-the-line user interface. These text and video-based Adobe Flash tutorials deal with the intricacies of creating simple and easy-to-use Flash movies and also integrating them in web pages. These Flash tutorials also provide a few simple games that can be quickly developed in Flash.

21 Adobe Flash Tutorials:

- How to Play Kanye West Flashing Lights – Piano Tutorial
- How to Add Flash SWF Files to a Page in Dreamweaver CS4
- How to use Masks in Flash
- Animation using a motion guide in Flash – Tutorial
- Fashion style logo animation in Flash – Tutorial
- Animation using clipping mask in Flash – Tutorial
- black and white mask animation in Flash – Tutorial
- Glowing object animation in Flash – Tutorial
- Drag and drop object in Flash – Tutorial
- Cool Image Presentation with nice transitions in Flash - Tutorial
- Changing the pivot point position in Flash – Tutorial
- Introducing the Flash Player – Adobe Flex 2
- How to Download and Install the Adobe Flash Player Plug-in
- How to Test Adobe Flash, Shockwave, Acrobat and Java Plug-ins/Readers
- How to use Audio in Flash Animation
- How kids Can learn and have fun with Flash games
- Away3D Programming Tutorial – Effects
- Pandemic II: The Free Flash Game That Gives Users a Chance to Create a Super Virus, Bacteria, or Parasite
- Papervision 3D Programming Tutorial – Creating a Papervision Component
- Away3D Programming Tutorials – Getting Started
- Papervision 3D Programming Tutorial – Enhanced Fog

51 Flash Tutorials from Layersmagazine.com

computer_teacher — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:00:42 +0000

Here are 51 great Flash Tutorials from layersmagazine.com. They cover and teach many Flash features, tasks, and activities in Flash CS4, Flash CS3, and Flash 8 using screen cam videos and step-by-step illustrated instructions. These Flash tutorials are linked below, with the most recent at the top.

Flash Tutorials at layersmagazine:

- Flash Audio, Part 1
- Flash Audio, Part 2
- Video Filters and Blend Effects in Flash
- Adobe Sound Documents
- Creating Motion in Flash with Bones Tool
- Flash CS4 Deco Tool
- Flash to Video
- Adobe Soundbooth Audio Files with Flash Video
- Animate a Flying Bird using Illustrator and Flash, Part 1
- Animate a Flying Bird using Illustrator and Flash, Part 2
- Creating Rain in After Effects, Part 2
- Creating Smoke in Adobe Flash
- Illustrator to Flash
- Dreamweaver XML Flash Slideshow Extension
- Trace Bitmap in Flash CS4
- Flash Video the Easy Way
- Flash Video the Easy Way, Pt. 2
- Flash Video the Easy Way, Pt. 3
- Flash CS4 Motion Easing
- Flash CS4 Animating Puppets
- Flash CS4 Motion Tweening
- Flash CS4 Motion Editor
- Flash CS4 Folded Book
- Flash CS4 SprayBrush
- Flash CS4 Media Encoder
- Basic Coding For Flash Video
- Falling Snow in Flash CS3
- HD Video in Flash Professional CS3
- Code-Free Flash Video
- Flash CS3: Made-To-Order Text
- Flash Buttons with Action Script 3
- Mastering Keyboard Shortcuts
- Closed-Captioned Video in Flash CS3
- Moving Illustrator Art in Flash CS3
- Handlin’ Photoshop and Illustrator Content in Flash
- Animated Zoom Blur in Flash CS3
- In a Flash
- Importing Photoshop Files Into Flash
- Controlling the Timeline with ActionScript 3
- Converting Video Files into Flash Format
- Turning Animation into Code in Flash CS3
- 9 Slice Scaling in Flash
- Passing Variables Using Flash and Dreamweaver
- Creating a Simple Calculator Using Adobe Flash
- Complex Button Animation in Adobe Flash
- Flash Slideshow Image Gallery
- Animating a Match in Adobe Flash
- Custom Video Player in Adobe Flash
- Creating an Interactive Story in Adobe Flash
- Creating an Interactive Story – Part 2
- E-card Announcement using Adobe Flash
- Animating Shadows in Adobe Flash
- Animating Your Adobe Photoshop Files in Flash 8
- Attaching Movie Clips in Flash Using ActionScript
- Motion Blur in Flash
- Tweening with Ease: Using Easing Controls
- Blending and Filtering in Flash 8 Professional
- Using Illustrator Symbols in Flash
- Integrating Video in a Flash Movie
- Photoshop Layers into Flash
- Water Ripples