Baby Steps : Getting Started in Flash Adobe Flash / Getting Started
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.)
Frame By Frame, Motion and Shape Tweening Adobe Flash / Getting Started
There are 3 main ways to animate anything in Flash 5. These are Frame by Frame, Motion Tweening and Shape Tweening. This tutorial covers each of the three and aims to teach new flash designers the basics of animation.
Building a Custom Cursor in Flash 5 Adobe Flash / Interactivity
This technique is one that no serious Flash designer should be without. I wrote this Flash 5 tutorial mainly for designers - as they may not have all the programming/action script experience they need to create great interactive Flash sites and presentations.Being a designer, learning action script has been a necessary evil for me - rather like 'motion math' in after effects. If you're picky about how your final Flash designs turn out, it forces you to learn many things you normally wouldn't such as the practice of programming.
Do-It-Yourself Scrollbar Adobe Flash / Third Party
This tutorial was written for the Flash Designer software. This is a pretty good scrollbar for scrolling text or other objects within your Flash movie. It doesn't require too much coding and it uses simple ActionScript commands that most people learn soon after getting Flash Designer. It resizes itself automatically for the number of lines in your HTML text field.
Importing Images and Movies into Flash Adobe Flash / Tips and Tricks
Quite often you need to import a sequence of images into Flash. They can be imported from any editor, and be either 3D or 2D style, or simply a set of pictures which you want to insert frame-by-frame into Flash.
Frame rate in Flash Adobe Flash / Getting Started
Flash's default frame rate is 12 frames per second (fps) and generally produces the best results for the web. If the frame rate is too fast it will blur the details of the animation and become CPU intensive which could result in the deterioration of the overall movie (a higher rate will not effect the size of your file/movie). A frame rate that is too slow will have a similar effect where it appears to stop and start.
Removing Flash Movie Protection Adobe Flash / Tips and Tricks
For an attentive study of the work of others, an analysis of their design decisions, understanding one or another moment when Flash technology was chosen in their designs, it can be quite helpful to download what you find an interesting Flash clip in an editor and scrutinize it in frame by frame mode. I want to warn you from the get go that this does not decompile an SWF file in initial FLA format, but nevertheless it gives sufficient food for thought while studying great work.
Sprites in Flash Adobe Flash / Third Party
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.
Flash MX slide show Adobe Flash / Dynamic Content
This tutorial will show you how to set up a slide show uploading pictures and presenting them using different ways. What is different to the slideshow presented as a template in Flash MX (After creating this file I found out that Flash MX has a slideshow template)? The big difference is that we do not have to create one frame for one slide but one frame for a series of slides, which we control by actionscript.
Shape Tweening Adobe Flash / Animation
Tired of doing frame by frame animation? With a shape tween you can create a beginning and ending fame. Then let flash to the rest of the work.