Creating Flash Panels for Photoshop
Learn how to create a Photoshop CS4 Flash panel using Flash CS4.

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Spraying symbols in Flash CS4
Learn how to spray symbols using the Spray brush tool in Flash CS4.

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Fading Banner Slideshow
This Adobe Flash CS4 tutorial will teach you how to create a fade in and fade out banner slideshow for your websites. You will need to create seven images that will make up the slideshow images and import them into the Flash CS4 Library then add to the Flash animation document stage. You will then convert the images to symbols and create Motion Tweens for your individual image layers and adjust the Color Effect Alfa type at various point in the Timeline to create an image fade in and out effect.

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Deco tool in Flash CS4
Learn how use the Deco tool in Flash CS4.

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Introduction to 3D Using Flash CS4
Learn how to use Flash CS4's 3D tools to take your content and easily manipulate them in a 3d space.

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Spray brush tool in Flash CS4
Learn how to use the Spray brush tool in Flash CS4.

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Create a Flickering Neon Light Effect
In this tutorial, you'll discover how Fireworks CS4 can be used to speed up your workflow in Flash and, at the same time, help a neon sign located on the wall of a run down theatre.

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Changing Text Director
Learn how to change the text direction in Flash CS4.

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Create a 3D perspective movement
In this tutorial, we're going to create a 3D perspective movement that allows the user to move towards the content or away from it with the keyboards arrows. This tutorial uses the z property, new in Flash CS4 .

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Pixel Bender Overview
Work with Pixel Bender created filters in the all new Adobe Flash CS4.

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Star wars text effect
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a Star Wars text effect in Flash CS4.

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Exporting Code-Driven Flash as a QuickTime Movie
I am going to show you how a purely code-driven animation can be exported as a QuickTime movie and further enhanced in After Effects CS4.

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Getting Started in Flash 5
There are two types of people that will be reading this tutorial. Those that have used flash 4 and those that have just bought their copy of Flash 5 and have absolutely no idea about anything but are keen to learn. If you fit latter category, you are in the right place! If you have used Flash 4 then you best introduction to Flash 5 is the Flash 5 tour.

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Customise the Tools panel
Learn how to customise the Tools panel in Flash CS4.

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Preload External Flash Movies using Components Flash tutorial
In this preloader tutorial you will learn how to load an external Flash file into another Flash Movie using the Loader and Progress Bar Components. The use of Components make this is very simple and quick build. You can then break up your Flash project into several Flash movies rather than having one very large Flash file. It also means that the user only needs to wait for that section of the site that they wish to view.

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Flash Plugin Detection in Flash 8
Flash plugin detection is very easy to implement in Flash 8. Its actually built-in. In this tutorial I will show you how to activate Flash plugin detection for whatever version of Flash that your Flash document requires.

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Sprites in Flash
This tutorial was written for the Flash Designer software, which allows you to create flash animations in a much easier way than by using Macromedia Flash.

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Preloading External Jpegs or SWFs into Flash
If you wish to preload Jpeg images or Flash Movies which are stored outside the Flash file use this preloader tutorial. This tutorial will show you how to use the Flash MX04 Loader Component to preload and place external files into your Flash Movie. The tutorial also shows you how to use the progressBar component.

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Flash Sound
In this tutorial you will learn how to add sound to your Flash Movie. This tutorial explains how to Import sound files into your Flash movie and then looks at the two different ways in which Flash handles sound: Event and Streamed sound. There is an explanation of both sound types and practical instructions of how to use each of these in your Flash Movies.

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Using Flash And Java To Create Pop-Ups
With Flash it is quite common to have a customized pop up window to hold your flash movie. This is almost always done using HTML and JavaScript. Well, what about having buttons in your flash movies that will open customized pop up windows?In this tutorial I am going to show you how to incorporate Flash and Java to do the same effect from a Flash movie.

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Preloading External Flash Movies Flash tutorial
This preloader tutorial shows you how to load an external Flash file into another Flash file with a preloader. This gives you the opportunity to break your Flash Movie into several more manageable parts rather than having one very large Flash file. It also means that the user need only wait for that section of the Movie that they wish to view to preload rather than waiting for a much larger file to load.

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Working With Flash MX 2004 and PHP
This tutorial is going to show you a very basic method of sending information from Flash to an external PHP script. This is merely a primer to get you working with using Flash for forms and dynamic content. The actual code for this tutorial can be used IN lower versions of Flash, but the actual process is written for Flash MX 2004.

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How to Create a Flash MX Component
Flash MX Components introduce a powerful new tool for the Flash developer, expanding the application of Flash 5 SmartClips. This tutorial walks you through the creation of a simple isosceles triangle component.

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Optimising a Flash Movie
Want to create fast loading Flash movies. Essential skills for all Flash developers.In this tutorial I will look at those things which clog up a Flash file. Then I will look at what you can do to help create meaner and leaner files.

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Baby Steps : Getting Started in Flash
This is a tutorial for flash 4. How exactly do you start using Flash? Well first you have to understand how flash works. Think of it as a cartoon and you, the designer, are the cartoon artist who has to draw each frame. (Flash helps you here, you don't have to draw every frame.)

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Dealing with Data Types
In this tutorial we are going to discuss and learn about one of the new introductions to Flash Actionscript. Some basic data types existed in Flash 4 such as strings, numbers and boolean though they weren't formalised until Flash 5. As you have probably figured out, Flash 5 Actionscript is a lot more complex that its Flash 4 parent but it's complexity delivers something the internet needs - more power :)

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Flash, Javascript, and the FSCommand
You can do a lot of great work in Flash, and it is a much richer and more dynamic media than straight HTML. However, there are still things that you can do in HTML and JavaScript that you can't do with just Flash. That being said, you can integrate HTML, JavaScript and Flash to create a great user experience. This tutorial will explain how to call JavaScript functions from within Flash to perform functions that Flash cannot do alone.

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Applying Flash 8 Filters Using ActionScript
This tutorial will hopefully teach you how to do that easily. This tutorial is to be followed in Flash 8 and the created SWF files will have to be viewed on Flash 8 Player to show these effects.

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Using Local Shared Objects in Flash MX: The Flash Cookies
Before Flash MX, it was pretty tricky to "remeber" the data in a Flash movie - it could be done with a standard browser cookie, which was hard to implement for someone with intermediate Flash skills, using a 3rd party script such as PHP or ASP or (in offline Flash applications) with the undocumented fscommand "save". Flash MX's Shared objects allow to store and retrieve the information within a Flash movie easily. Lets see how it works.

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Flash For Beginners
This tutorial will help you to understand the concept of Flash, as well as what the tools are for, how to customise your Flash experience, and it will even help you make your first basic animation.

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Motion Tween
Having trouble making things move in flash? I did. I went through the tutorial that came with flash and still I had problems. So I gave up flash all together. Quitter may be, but I did come back to it later on, and I finally was able to do it.I searched the net for a while looking for a tutorial and could only find one that was able to help me. I can't give you the address as I have lost it.

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startDrag and stopDrag in ActionScript
This tutorial was written for the Flash Designer software, which allows you to create flash animations in a much easier way than by using Macromedia Flash.

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Tracing Anime and other things in Flash
So you have a picture, maybe a screenshot of something you like, or you've drawn and colored something yourself and you would like to do the same in Flash. This tutorial will get you used to drawing inside Flash like a pro.

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Floating Flash Over Your Webpage in Flash MX
This tutorial is designed to teach you the process of manipulating your flash movie so that It will have the ability to float over your webpage.By the end of the tutorial, you will have the ability to play your Flash movie containing transparency in Internet Explorer (Only works in IE on Windows OS).

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Intro to Flash
After you install the Macrodedia FlashMX2004(or professional version), open it, and there are the following things you'll need to know before starting to work on.A complete document to introduce flash and learn the basic flash elements, learning what flash is, how to make animation with basic knowledge, understand the flash environment.

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Creating a banner
This tutorial is suitable for you if you're opening Flash 8 for the first time. This tutorial shows you some of the fundamental aspects of the program, and how to get started using them to build a real project. You don't need to know anything about Flash or animation to complete this tutorial; in fact, you'll discover how easy it is to start using Flash 8 to add elements to your web pages.

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Communication between Flash Movies
This tutorial shows you how to send information or instructions from one Flash Move to another on the same web page. There is theoretically no limit to what information can be sent between each Flash Movie. You can control and communicate between any two Flash Movies on the same page or on different pages. It is also be possible to communicate between more than two Flash Movies.

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Make your own mp3 Player Flash tutorial
One of the best features of Flash MX is its ability to download mp3 files directly into flash player, before the release of flash MX developers had to import mp3 files into their projects and this made handling such files very hard. But now with the loadSound() function you can easily load mp3s and choose the method flash player downloads them.

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Sound
In this tutorial you will learn how to add sound to your Flash Movie. This tutorial explains how to Import sound files into your Flash movie and then looks at the two different ways in which Flash handles sound: Event and Streamed sound. There is an explanation of both sound types and practical instructions of how to use each of these in your Flash Movies.

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Glow Flash menu
Read this tutorial and see how to create advanced glow flash menu using Action Script and flash effects in flash 8.

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