Adobe Flash Text Effects tutorials
There is a very simple way to make a nice looking text effect. It involves the alpha effect. It is fairly time consuming, but the end result is worth it. If you would like to see the effect we will make, click here.
Related Tutorials
Alpha Text Effect
Learn how to make a very professional looking alpha text effect.
Advanced Alpha Effect
In this lesson, I will explain to you how to create advanced alpha effect in flash 8 using the Action Script.
Glowing Text Effect
In this Flash tutorial you will learn how to make text glow (this effect will also work for anything drawn in Flash). The glowing edges around the text will ease in and ease out in this animations. Topics include: soften fill edges, alpha control, and basic tweening. No actionscript involved and source file is included.
Alpha/Onion Skin
Learn how to get a cool alpha fading, onion skin type of effect used by many websites.
Text Zoom Effect
This is one of the most basic ,still a cool, effect one can make in Flash.Working with Alpha settings,Working with movie clips,Basic tweening.
Flash: Alpha Mask Effect
Learn the easy way to impress your friends and family with this dreamy image effect for slide shows and more!
Fade transition effect
This Flash tutorial will teach you how to create a fade transition effect using the alpha property. This will give the effect of images fading into each other.
Effects (Alpha - Tint - Brightness)
In this toturial, you're going to learn how to add:Alpha,Tint,Brightness to your tweened animation.
Exploding text effect
This flash tutorial teaches you how to create an exploding text effect. This text effect is fairly simple and requires no action script. The result gives the effect of text exploding into many fragments.
Gradient Sweep Photo Effect
Learn a simple photo gallery effect in this Flash tutorial. Topic include: motion tweening, gradient color fill, alpha property. No actionscript involved. Source file included.
Alpha/Opacity and Fading in Flash
This is an in-depth tutorial on controlling Alpha (aka opacity) and fading symbols in Flash.
Advanced Masking Effect
In this tutorial, we will show you how to create a advanced Masking Effect.You will see how to use alpha settings, radial gradient fill and how to work with guide layer in combination with mask layer.
Bouncing Text Effect
We're going to look at a very nice looking text effect. We'll be using a black font on a white background, nothing too fancy. The text will bounce up and down once we have finished. Like the effect? Let's make it. For this tutorial I assume you have some knowledge of Flash; the basics about keyframes, layers and such.
Generating Your Text Effect
When you click on the GENERATE button you will be presented with this Editor.You will notice the six options that are given to you before you generate your text effect. These have been created to give you more control of your text effect once you import it into your movie.
Text Swipe Effect in Flash
you'll learn how to create an animated text swipe effect, where the text is quickly and smoothly revealed from left to right. Text effects like this can be a little tedious to achieve, but the end result is usually well worth the effort.
Mask text effect
Now you have to create a mask text effect. The results give the effect of text being slowly revealed by the masked object.
Creating Shining Text Effect in Flash
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a looping text mask effect. This mask gives the effect of shining metal and is a great improvement to any banner or important text.
Smoky blow text effect
This Flash tutorial will teach you how to create a smoky blow text effect. This gives the effect of text zooming out while smoky text zooms in.
Cinema style text effect
This Flash tutorial will teach you how to create a cinema style text effect. This will give the effect of text getting smaller and fading downwards.
Drop text effect
Create a nice looking drop text effect. The result gives the effect of text falling from above.
Sliding text effect
This Flash tutorial will teach you how to create a sliding text effect. This gives the effect of text sliding in from the side.
Gradient text effect
This Flash tutorial will teach you how to create a gradient text effect. The results will show regular text with a gradient instead of a solid colour.
Knockout Text Effect
This tutorial doesn't require much skill or knowledge of Flash. It's a great way to make an outline around text, to create a modern looking text effect. You will need Flash 8 to complete this tutorial, as we will be adding a Glow filter.
Custom Text Effect
There are lots of different text effects possible in Flash. We're going to look at a nice simple effect, where the letters fall into place.
Cylindrical Text Effect
This time we will learn an easy text effect which is simple (but fascinating), popular (but unique).
Simple blink text effect
In this tutorial, you will see how to create a text effect which is blinking, using the flash filters.
Creating smooth, alpha capable, dynamic texts
In this easy step-by-step Creating smooth, alpha capable, dynamic texts.
DropShadow Effect For Text
In this tutorial,learn drop shadow effect for text.
Special Text Effcet
If you want to create a nice text effect you'll need to use the Action Script, whic isnt very easy. This tutorial will learn you how to create in a easily way a cool text effect without Action Script. Let's go!
Using Alpha
You need to make the object transparent in this project.
Fantastic Text Effect without writing any ActionScript
Normally, to create a good text effect, you need to take advantage of ActionScript by using Flash, which is not so easy for us flash beginners. Here I would like to introduce you a flash design tool, with which you can create a lot of fantasic text effects with just a few clicks. Don't beleive it? Take the following tour and you will be convinced.
The Flashtyper Panels
The text editor is simply a text entry dialog box. The text you enter here will be the text that will be used in the text effect. To enter some text simply click on the ERASE ALL TEXT button to clear the field. Now click in the field and type your text in. Once this is done you can either minimise the dialog box or close it completely.
Cool ice text effect
In this really easy lesson, I will explain to you how to create ice text in Flash 8 Pro. This effect is possible to obtain thanks to the blending filters. You will learn the following techniques:
Typing effect
In this tutorial you'll learn how to create a typing effect when working with text fields. This will become very handy if you don't want the text to be displayed right away but with some dynamic motion.
Different Text Effects
There are lots of different text effects possible in Flash. We're going to look at a nice simple effect, where the letters fall into place. If you want to see an example of the effect, click here.
Cloudy text effect
This tutorial will show you how to create cloudy text effect, using the mask and filters in flash 8, without Action Script.
Text shadow effect
In this tutorial, we will show you how to create one very useful text effect with shadow ,without Action Script. You'll see how to use break apart and Distribute to Layers.
Mask Text Effect
In this easy tutorial, I will show you how to create cool mask text effect using the action script code.
Shine Text Effect
In this lesson, I will explain to how to create advanced shine text effect in flash, using the Action Script.
Disappearing text effect
In this easy tutorial made for Flash 8, you will see how to create disappearing text effect with no Action Script.
 
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