Flash Tutorials for Beginners
Tutorials for basic tasks that you'll need to understand when starting out with Flash. Includes how-to's for adding text, sound, and hyperlinks. Also covers basic terminology and concepts such as creating buttons, drawing, editing, morphing, tweening, working with symbols, publishing your Flash movies, and more.
Animating Basics
Learn about frame by frame animation, shape tweening, motion tweening, animating text, and motion guides.
Learn about frame by frame animation, shape tweening, motion tweening, animating text, and motion guides.
Bitmap to Vector in a Flash
Little known fact: Flash is an excellent tool for converting bitmap graphics into vector based art.
Little known fact: Flash is an excellent tool for converting bitmap graphics into vector based art.
Exporting your Flash Movie
How to export your Flash movies for use in an HTML document or as an animated GIF.
How to export your Flash movies for use in an HTML document or as an animated GIF.
Importing
Learn how to import bitmap images and sounds.
Learn how to import bitmap images and sounds.
Get Hints on ActionScript from Flash
From Eyeland Studio: "You can get Flash to tell you a little bit about most ActionScript commands. This tip will show you how."
From Eyeland Studio: "You can get Flash to tell you a little bit about most ActionScript commands. This tip will show you how."
Optimizing Clip Art in Flash
From Eyeland Studio: "Learn how to optimize your vector artwork in Flash for quicker downloads and smoother playback."
From Eyeland Studio: "Learn how to optimize your vector artwork in Flash for quicker downloads and smoother playback."
Scrolling
"Learn how to import a text file into Flash and be able to display it and scroll it. Extremely useful for a news script, etc." FLA file available.
"Learn how to import a text file into Flash and be able to display it and scroll it. Extremely useful for a news script, etc." FLA file available.
Tell Target Command
Understanding the concepts of the Tell Target command can help beginning Flash users go to the next level.
Understanding the concepts of the Tell Target command can help beginning Flash users go to the next level.
Using PNG Images with Flash
From Eyeland Studio: "Flash is one of the few programs that really leverages the advantages of the PNG format. Read this article and you'll probably never want to use JPEG images in Flash again."
From Eyeland Studio: "Flash is one of the few programs that really leverages the advantages of the PNG format. Read this article and you'll probably never want to use JPEG images in Flash again."