Adobe Flash Tips and Tricks tutorials
Creating an animation of an object rotating is very easy to do, whether you do it with tweens or in Actionscript. Unfortunately, sometimes the rotations don't occur exactly how you would want them to, because by default, the anchor for the rotation is the center point of the object being rotated. In this tutorial, you will learn how to change that anchor point for both tweened animations and Actionscript animations.
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Rotating Text in Flash
This tutorial shows you how to create a Flash movie of rotating text.
Creating a Rotating Menu (Flash 4)
Learn how to create a fantastic rotating menu!
Rotating Star With Filter Effects
Today we're going to make a rotating star, ideal for "Sign Up" buttons. They are commonly used around the internet, though often they do not animate. For this tutorial you should know the basics of Flash - how the tools work and how to use the features. I used Flash 8 to create this, as Filters were involved, which are exclusive to Flash 8. You can still create the effect in MX, without Filter effects. To view an example of what we will be creating, click here.
Creating Animations Using Flash Motion Tweens
Easily create animations without the need to draw each and every frame in an animated sequence.
Rotating Star With Filter Effects
We're going to make a rotating star, ideal for "Sign Up" buttons. They are commonly used around the internet, though often they do not animate. For this tutorial you should know the basics of Flash - how the tools work and how to use the features.
Controlling File Size in Flash Animations, Part 1
This tutorial shows you how you can keep file size small for Flash Animations in an easy to read and well illustrated article.
Motion Animations
Flash 8 is a program oriented mainly to the animation that is the aim of this unit. However, to continue creating more and more complex animations, beyond all, it's needed a lot of practice.
Rotating Sunburst Effect in Flash
In this basic tutorial, you will learn how to highlight your logo by putting a rotating sunburst effect behind it. You'll also learn an important lesson about reusing graphic elements whenever possible.
3D Rotating Ring
Ever wanted to make 3d objects in Flash, without buying expensive, complicated 3d programs? If your aim is to get some not much complicated, rotating objects, such as the ring above, try this tutorial...
Editing Bitmaps Properly For Use in Flash Animations - Smooth/Clean Cutouts
In this tutorial you will learn how to edit and set up bitmaps for use in flash animations with smooth and clean edges for a better appearance.
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.
Working with Texts
Flash provides everything that we might need to create an animation, and, hence, also all that is related to the texts. However, Flash was conceived to create graphic animations, in such a way that it will treat any text as if it were one more object, prepared to be animated if that's what you want it for. That allows us to animate texts afterwards and to easily create spectacular animations. Flash distinguishes among 3 types of text: static text or normal; dynamic text; and input text (in order the user to introduce the date, for example), it can also create text that supports HTML format, etc...
Rotating Objects in Flash
Rotate any object by using actionscript in flash.
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.
Tweening in Flash MX
Create animations by having Flash fill in the frames between 2 locations, read on to see what I mean.
Preloading in Macromedia Flash MX2004
Create a preloader for your movies or flash animations.
Animating Items
Create flash animations in a much easier way than by using Macromedia Flash.
3D with Word
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.
Beginning FLASH 5 animation and a basic button
To the novice developer, Flash can appear quite overwhelming. In truth the interface is more like that of a video editing software than a standard graphics program such as Adobe Photoshop. Keeping this in mind you can begin to understand how FLASH animations are created.
Introduction to Flash 8
Flash 8 is a powerful tool created by Macromedia that has overcome the best expectations of its creators.Macromedia Flash was originally created in an effort to realize colorful animations for the web as well as to create animated GIFs.Designers, web professionals and amateurs have selected Flash 8 by many reasons.
Flash MX 2004 ActionScript Learning Guide
ActionScript is the scripting language for Macromedia Flash. It makes your Flash content interactive. ActionScript provides a more efficient way to do things in Flash, from creating simple animations through designing complex application interfaces. With the release of Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Macromedia introduced ActionScript 2.0.
Rotating an Object Perfectly
You might be interested in the tip for rotating and object PERFECTLY without the jerk you sometimes have to correct manually.
Creating desktop applications with Flash
Flash is mainly known as a program dedicated to producing animations and applications for the web that run in a web browser. This situation has evolved over the past few years with a couple of programs known as SWF wrappers, Flash wrappers or SWFtoEXE programs, that open the door of desktop application development to a lot of Flash developers and Flash designers.
Color Distort
Flash is a vector program, it can't create distortions of pixel images. Flash animations that involve distorting pictures are generally created using a third party program and then imported into flash. There is an easy trick which can be used to create some pretty neat effects.
Basics of Flash Animation
While working in Flash you will find it really necessary to create simple animation sequences. In this Tutorial you'll learn how to create Simple Animations in Flash. In Flash, animation can be done in four basic ways:
Basic Animation in flash
Learn some basic animations in flash with this video tutorial.
Create non-flash, flash animations
This is a really easy way to create an animated gif if you are not familiar with Fireworks but familiar with Flash.
How to create Realistic Fireworks in Flash
Learn how to create a realistic particle based firework display in Flash with some clever design and actionscript to duplicate movieclip animations.
Create animated buttons with retro gaming style
In this tutorial you will learn how to create buttons that show an animation when you roll your mouse over them. The animations inside the buttons will be frame by frame animations, standard motion tween and guided motion tween animations.On top of that, you will see how to design the buttons so that they convey that old-school gaming look.
Embedding Flash SWF files in Visual Basic
For making our VB projects more attracitve we embed our flash made Movies into our VB files. Lets make a simple example have simple animations.
Flash Actionscript 2.0 Vector3D Class
This class called "v3d" is meant for use in 3D Flash animations. It was written by me and Deamothul, and adapted from various AS1 prototypes(AHAB, WIS, et al). It contains most of the functions needed for 3D work.
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.
Keyframes
This tutorial is going to be fairly brief. It is ideally for those of you getting started with Flash. Learn the basics of key frames so you can structure your animations!
Skip Intro
Add "Skip Intro" button to larger Flash animations so inpatient or dial-up users can go straight to your home page by using Flash Designer.
Using Flash for video animation
How to export Flash animations into a video format such as Windows AVI or Quicktime, and using it in a home video production. For advanced users, how to superimpose animation over video background sources using chromakeying.
Morphing Effect In Flash (Shape Tween)
Flash can create morphing animations, in which you specify the first and the final shapes so that all the frames in between are created by the authoring tool. This is called Shape Tween.
Quick and Easy 3D using Flash and Swift 3D
How to create a quick 3D Animations for Flash using Erain's Swift 3D.
Vector Animations
This tutorial will show you how to make a vector animations.
CD Autorun
Like any software CD you'd insert into your CD/DVD ROM Drive, you can make your flash animations, presentations or any other project on CD run automatically once the CD has been inserted.
Sound Synchronisation
To synchronize sound and animations in Flash 4 we only need to add a few small operations.
 
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