Use Layout Tools Adobe Flash / Tips and Tricks
Macromedia Flash Basic 8 and Macromedia Flash Professional 8 offer a variety of ways to place objects on the Stage. This tutorial teaches you how to use the layout tools in Flash to create a user interface.
The Toolbar Adobe Flash / Getting Started
One of the things I really like about Flash is how easy it is to draw basic animation with the tools provided. Let's take a look at these tools:
Pencil Tool Adobe Flash / Drawing
This tutorial will give you an introduction to the Pencil Tools as used in Flash. You will learn how to select different options and properties for the Pencil Tool. It will introduce you to the Tool Colour and Options section of the Tool box and introduce you to the Property Inspector. This Flash drawing tutorial is the first in a series of nine Flash drawing and painting tutorials that take you through all the necessary drawing tools available in Flash.
Flash For Beginners Adobe Flash / Getting Started
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.
Selection Tools Adobe Flash / Drawing
In this tutorial you will learn how to use the Selection and Lasso Tools. These tool enable you to edit your artwork. You will learn how to select and edit shapes, Fills and lines in your Flash file.
Customizing Flash 5 Adobe Flash / Getting Started
After you've been using Flash for a while, you'll find that you have specific routines or tasks that you use often that aren't assigned a hot key. I, for example, use the Scale Tool all the time. It's probably one of the most used tools for me but unfortunately, there's no Hot Key for it. Well, you can program your own Flash Hot Keys. We'll walk you through that in this lesson.
House drawing Adobe Flash / Drawing
Read this tutorial and see how to draw a house in flash, and after that how to paint it using some flash tools. I will show you in few steps how to do that.
3D with Word Adobe Flash / 3D Effects
There are many ways to create 3D in Flash. You can either do it directly in Flash or through use of 3rd party software. Doing it directly in Flash can be very meticulous and frustrating. 3rd party tools are much easier in comparison, but they are also very pricy. Fortunately, there is an answer for those who only need simple 3D, like a logo or rotating cube, etc.
Exploring the Flash Professional 9 ActionScript 3.0 Preview Adobe Flash / ActionScript
This article walks you through creating a new shape using the drawing tools in Flash. After learning how to interact with the shape so it reacts to button clicks and mouse movement, you'll see how to move the ActionScript from the main Timeline into an external file that you can link to symbols in the Library or to the main Flash document itself.
Working With XML Adobe Flash / Tips and Tricks
Sometimes you need to pass a flash file information. Perhaps you're making a flash-based photo gallery or an mp3 player. Maybe you want to use flash to parse server information. Whatever you need to do, it may make the most sense to use XML to pass your data to flash. Using XML is good because it's easy to parse as flash has built-in XML tools. In order to use an XML file, you need flash to do 2 things: read it and parse it. Here's an example of the code you'd need to read in an XML file (called info.xml) and parse it.
Creating Graphics: Applying Gradients Adobe Flash / Special Effects
This tutorial guides you through the process of using the gradient tools in Macromedia Flash Basic 8 and Macromedia Flash Professional 8. With Flash, you can create simple color gradients and complex gradient effects. In this tutorial, you learn how to do some of both.
Flash 8 Accessibility Design Guidelines: Text Equivalents Adobe Flash / Third Party
Macromedia Flash 8 offers the most powerful tools available for the development of accessible rich media. Whether using ActionScript or the Accessibility panel in Macromedia Flash, creating accessible Flash content can be quick and easy. Using text and text equivalents, designers and developers of Macromedia Flash content may create engaging and exciting content for users of screen readers and other assistive technologies.
Flash Illustration Walkthrough Adobe Flash / Drawing
Vector Illustration is often quite hard to wrap ye old noggin around sometimes - especially for beginners. Whilst most Illustrators tend to use the larger more orthodox illustration applications such as Adobe Illustrator and Freehand , I choose to use Flash because of its simple, and animation friendly drawing tools.
Symbols in Flash Adobe Flash / Getting Started
The Symbols come from objects that we've created using the tools that Flash 8 provides us. Learn what are the symbols, how to create a symbol, difference between symbol and instance, how to use libraries and more.