Special Effects Adobe Flash Tutorials

Kaleidoscope
Let's get trippy with an easy-to-build kaleidoscope! A simple bit of masking and some tweening is all it takes to achieve something that looks a lot more complex.

Animated Masks
Learn how to make a simple animated mask in Flash. Here we demonstrate one possible effect that allows you to see background through an animated circle only.

Motion Blur
Adding motion blur effects is easy with practially any image editing software. Just follow the three easy steps presented here.

Tween Effects
In this tutorial, you're going to learn how to add Alpha, Tint, Brightness. to your tweened animation.

Let Is Snow
In this tutorial I'm going to show you how to create a dynamic snow effect.

Simple Particle Effect
This tutorial will cover a very barebones particle system. The goal is to have a bunch of little particles free-floating. They will pick a random point inside the movie frame, then easy over to it, and repeat the process.

Animated Shine
Give a new look to any images on your site by adding a special effect known as an animated shine. This great tutorial will show you everything you need to know in order to really "shine up"that site of yours.

Snow Effect With Wind
I'll show you how to easily add a snow effect to your movies.

Creating the Illusion of Speed with Motion Blur
This article shows you how to create a blur of color to provide the special effect of motions for objects in your graphic works.

Image Effect Using fillRect
How to create a distortion fill effect using the fillRect() BitmapData's method.

Getting In Focus
This Flash tutorial shows you how to Get In Focus. The author shows you how to use a blurred image in your webpage, but this image gets sharper and sharper as the mouse passes over it. Really ingenious effect.

Ripple Effect
How can you make a 'Ripple Effect'? This fine tutorial will show you how to do it the easy way.

Using ActionScript to apply the blur filter to button symbols
Make a cool interactive blurring effect with just a few lines of code!

Basic Particle System
This tutorial will teach you how to create a very simple particle system in flash.

Creating a Gyroscope
you'll learn how to create a gyroscope effect using multiple instances of this simple technique.

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.

Typewriter Effect in Flash
Create a typewriter animation where the user can see the text being typed onto the stage synced up with sound.

Lighting (Glow) Effect in Flash
Have a better understanding of how the Glow effect works.

Blur Effect
This is a simple tutorial which will teach you how to create a blurred image animation in Flash, though originally intended for the pre-Flash Filters era, this technique is still valid and is the only method for creating a blur animation for making FlashLite movies and movies to be played on older versions of the Flash player such as the the one running on the Sony PSP. Our technique here does not require any ActionScript knowledge, but will require using an external image editor for creating a blurred version of the image that we are intending to use.

Fade In & Fade Out Effect
This tutorial will teach you how to create a simple fade-in and fade-out effect.