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Make a big, cool promo button!
Design a powerful, eye-catching animated and rotating button.

Create an excellent menu/preloader system
Learn to make a superb navigation system for loading external content in Flash!

How to make an awesome blue shining orb
Use bevels, filters and radial fills to create a stunning polished orb in Flash!.

Making an aqua gel button
Create a classical looking gel button, but completely in flash.

Creating movie clips
Movie clips are one of the building blocks of Flash. You will use them all the time. Learn to create a movie clip symbol, make instances out of it, work with the library and more.

Aligning objects on stage
Learn to use the Align panel in conjunction with grouping to place your objects where you want them, perfectly parallel between them, with same distances between them and centered on stage.

Publishing your movie, the difference between FLA and SWF
So, you finally finished that nice first Flash site you want to put on the Web, and now what? How to publish it? What are the details and specifics you should now about before going live? It's all in here!

Guided planet animation
Make a movie clip follow a circular guide with this detailed and easy-to-follow Flash tutorial!

Why Flash Player is the best plugin available on the Web
Read and see for yourself why the Flash Player is the most powerful and advanced plugin.

Basic motion tween animation
The basis of animation in Flash. Learn to create a movie clip symbol and to animate it, change the speed of your Flash movie.

Motion tween animation options
Learn to change the transparency, tint, brightness, shape and rotation of your animated symbols.

Shape tween animation
Learn to change the transparency, tint, brightness, shape and rotation of your animated symbols.

Mask text scroller banner
Make an effective, attractive ad banner by animating giant scrolling text across it. What is even better, the text is a mask, revealing an image beneath it.

Basic percentage textual internal preloader
Learn how to make an internal preloader - the one which shows how much of the movie it is itself a part of has loaded. Here, you will find the actionscript behind the preloading mechanism explained in detail.

Basic progress bar graphical preloader
Learn to set up a graphical preloader which clearly shows how much of the site, contained in an external flash movie, remains to be loaded.

Using ActionScript to apply the blur filter to button symbols
Make a cool interactive blurring effect with just a few lines of code!

Make a hangman game in Flash from start to finish!
Learn to load XML and text data into Flash by making a hangman game. You'll learn a lot!

ActionScript mask that a user can drag around
Learn to easily create a mask via ActionScript.

Making gradient fills
Make gradient fills by using just a few lines of ActionScript code! Create nice effects that you can apply to your movies.

Creating simple color fills
Learn to fill your drawn shapes via ActionScript, or create them without any outlines. Check out this tutorial before exploring the gradient fills.