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Introduction to Flash, the tools panel

Introduction to Flash, the tools panel

The Tools Panel is going to be one of the most often used panels in Flash. In this introduction to a series of lessons on using the drawing tools, Craig explains the tools panel and shows you how you can customize it.
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"Introduction to Flash CS3" Preview

"Introduction to Flash CS3" Preview

If you are working with Flash for the first time, there are a couple of file formats that you will need to be familiar with. In this video, Craig discusses the basics behind .fla files and .swf files.
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Intro to Flash CS3

Intro to Flash CS3

In this video, Craig walks you through the Flash working environment.
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Buttons for Dynamic Slideshows

Buttons for Dynamic Slideshows

In this tutorial, you will learn the code that you need to add to the buttons in order to get this type of slideshow to function properly.
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Intro to ActionScript

Intro to ActionScript

When dealing with ActionScript code, it is a good idea to learn how to get around in the Actions panel. In this video, Craig gives you a quick tour of the panel and its features.
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Smoke Effect with ActionScript

Smoke Effect with ActionScript

Learn how to create the smoke particle and fleshes out some of the ActionScript for the fla file.
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Build a Website

Build a Website

Learn how to create an external class that links to a button symbol on your stage. This way, you will be able to add code for your button to an external ActionScript file.
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Make your Own Fog

Make your Own Fog

Learn how to animate simple fog using the blur filter.
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Morphing Text

Morphing Text

Learn how to morph shape into text.
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Continuous Scrolling Background

Continuous Scrolling Background

Learn how to make a continuously scrolling background, using repeated graphics, and motion tweens.
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Classic Filling Preloader

Classic Filling Preloader

This is a very popular preloader, but is rarely explained in a simple tutorial. Add some pro elements to your site by creating a preloader that fills your own logo. In this tutorial, you will learn the basics to any preloader mask.
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Action Loop

Action Loop

In this tutorial, you will add Actionscript to a Movie Clip to make it loop. You will learn to add variables to that Actionscript to affect the speed easily. You can add this code to a variety of backgrounds and foregrounds.
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Creating a Custom Scroller

Creating a Custom Scroller

Learn how to make your own scrollbar from scratch that will cause a text field to scroll up and down as you drag the scrollbar around.
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Movie Clip Loader

Movie Clip Loader

The MovieClipLoader class allows you to keep track of loading information for dynamically loaded assets. In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the MovieClipLoader class to create a preloader for your slideshow images.
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Dry Erase Board

Dry Erase Board

Learn how to allow your users to click and drag on the stage in order to create their own drawing.
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Creating a Flyout Menu

Creating a Flyout Menu

Learn how to create animated flyout menus.
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Introduction to ActionScript

Introduction to ActionScript

Learn how to get your object to move to a specific point on the stage.
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Password

Password

Learn how to add simple password protection using ActionScript and the Input Text option.
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Rewinding the Timeline

Rewinding the Timeline

Learn how to create a button that will cause your animations to play in reverse when clicked.
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Nine Slice Scaling

Nine Slice Scaling

Learn a new feature of Flash CS3 called 9-slice scaling. This method of scaling an object allows you to use guides that allow for smarter resizing of objects.
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Flash Banner Ads

Flash Banner Ads

Learn how to animate a block of text so that it looks like its being typed onto the stage as you watch.
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Animated Transitions

Animated Transitions

Learn the code necessary to make one slideshow image fade in right on top of another one using ActionScript.
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Display

Display

Learn how to create a custom display that can be added to any monitor.
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Adding Flash Elements to Website

Adding Flash Elements to Website

It's time to replace the boring text link in the bottom-right corner of the home page with something that stands out a little better. In this video, Craig creates an animated button to take its place.
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Classic Film Grain

Classic Film Grain

Place this movie clip over artwork or an imported video to give it that classic scratchy look. This is a fun tutorial that will teach you some simple frame by frame tricks to create a professional grain look.
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Invisible Buttons and Sound

Invisible Buttons and Sound

In this tutorial, you will learn how to command sounds with invisible buttons. Add invisible buttons around objects that become interactive, and play sounds and songs.
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Motion Guide

Motion Guide

In this tutorial, you will learn how to animate a graphic on a guided path using the motion guide. You will also learn how to place your graphic or movieclip on the correct points of the motion guide.
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Slideshow Mask Animation

Slideshow Mask Animation

In some previous tips, there have been a couple of slideshows created that consisted of images fading in onto the stage. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create more complicated transitions using mask animations.
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Intro to Cartooning

Intro to Cartooning

Depending on the style you're going for in your cartoon, you might want to add some shading to your characters to give them a sense of depth. In this video, Craig demonstrates some useful techniques as he adds shading to the robot character.
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Building Games with Flash Preview

Building Games with Flash Preview

In this chapter, you will learn how to use Flash to create your custom characters. Learn to use the line tool and the fill tool to easily design the Control and Hostile ships for this side scrolling game.
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Text Flash

Text Flash

Create a catchy animation with text. This tutorial with teach you how to add a great effect using the glow filter within Flash 8.
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Glowing Text

Glowing Text

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a professional effect using very simple commands. Learn to create this effect using key-frames instead of action script. You will also learn how to break apart text so that we can edit and add effects.
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Custom Cursor  Using Action Script

Custom Cursor Using Action Script

Create a custom cursor with your own image by simply using action script.
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Shining Text - looping text

Shining Text - looping text

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a looping text mask effect. This mask gives the effect of shining metal and is a great improvement to any banner or important text.
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Adding Gravity

Adding Gravity

In this tutorial, we will discuss an effect that is overlooked a lot of the time, its called the ease effect. If you want your animation to stand out and have a better look and feel than the ease effect will help.
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Digital Clock

Digital Clock

Add a sleek element to your site and give your users a real time digital clock to keep time. Design the clock using action script and import into your site as an .swf.
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Propellor Effect

Propellor Effect

Creating a spinning animation is very simple in Actionscript, taking only a few lines of code. So since it is so simple, we will take this tutorial one step further and show you how you can allow your users to control the spin and the direction of the spin using their arrow keys.
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Dynamic Lines

Dynamic Lines

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create two draggable circles that will always remain connected via a dynamic line that you will create in Actionscript. No matter where you move the circles, they will always be connected by the line.
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Bungee Ball

Bungee Ball

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a circle that the user can drag around the stage. But when the user releases his mouse, the circle will snap back to the center of the stage as though it were tied to a bungee cord.
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NEW YEAR FIREWORKS

NEW YEAR FIREWORKS

In this special New Year tutorial, you will learn how to play with fireworks without setting any grassfires, and you will do so by learning how to create a fireworks show from scratch in Flash Professional 8.
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Falling Flakes

Falling Flakes

Once you've drawn your snowflake in Flash, this video will teach you how to animate multiple instances of your snowflakes falling before your eyes. This tutorial uses the Math.random method in order to give your snowfall a more natural feel.
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Beam Me Up

Beam Me Up

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create an animation where you dematerialize an image into a bunch of small squares and then animate those squares off the stage.
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Smoked Turkey

Smoked Turkey

In honor of Thanksgiving, we're going to devote today's tutorial to smoking your own turkey in Flash. Using the blur filter, you'll learn how to create plumes of fragrant smoke rising off of your perfectly-cooked turkey.
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Selectable Regions

Selectable Regions

Today's tutorial simply requires a little bit of tracing work and some ActionScript. In this video, you'll learn how to create a map with regions that are highlighted as you hover over them.
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Smoky Text Fade

Smoky Text Fade

In today's video tutorial, you'll learn how to create a transition effect where one piece of text fades away in a puff of smoke while another piece of text fades in in its place.
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Hover Button Effect

Hover Button Effect

In today's tutorial, you'll learn how to create a picture button with some text at the bottom. When you hover over the button, the text, along with its semi-transparent background, will scroll up, revealing a more detailed description of the button.
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Symmetrical Round Objects

Symmetrical Round Objects

Have you ever wondered how to create a symmetrical round object, like a gear or a flower, in Flash? In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use the free transform tool and the transform panel to do just that. In particular, this tutorial will show you how to illustrate the cross section of an orange.
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Creating a Bounce Animation

Creating a Bounce Animation

Creating a bouncing ball animation can be a little tedious if you do it in Flash. In today's video tutorial, Craig will show you how to create a bounce animation with only a few lines of ActionScript by calling on the Tween class and the Bounce class.
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Animating Filters in Flash Pro 8

Animating Filters in Flash Pro 8

You can motion tween a lot of things in Flash--position, transparency, color, etc--but did you know you could ALSO tween a filter in Flash Professional 8? In this video, Craig will show you how!
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Rotating Globe Effect

Rotating Globe Effect

Unfortunately, Flash doesn't have any functionality for creating true 3D animations by itself, but if you know a few tricks, sometimes you can fake it. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create a somewhat 3D-esque rotating globe effect in Flash.
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Cursor Replacement & Blending Modes

Cursor Replacement & Blending Modes

You're gonna need Flash Professional 8 for this tutorial. In this video, you'll learn how to use Flash 8's blending modes to create a circle that follows the cursor around on the stage, inverting the colors of the image in the layer below the circle.
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Fixing Unruly Shape Tweens

Fixing Unruly Shape Tweens

Sometimes complex shape tweens can get a little rambunctious, even when we add all the shape hints we can think to add. In fact, sometimes the shape hints only serve to make things worse. In today's tutorial, you'll learn a quick cheat that might fix some of the less desirable shape tween effects that might pop up.
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Semitransparent Buttons

Semitransparent Buttons

In today's beginner-level tutorial, you'll learn how to create a very simple, yet elegant, button symbol with a semitransparent background that loses its transparency on rollOver.
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Animated Typewriter Effect

Animated Typewriter Effect

Today's tip is a simple, though somewhat tedious effect, that allows us to create a typewriter animation where the user can see the text being typed onto the stage. The animation will be synced up with a sound file.
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Animating Lines

Animating Lines

In today's tutorial, you'll learn how to animate a series of lines to make it look like they're drawing themselves onto the stage. This is done using a simple mask.
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Symbol Instances

Symbol Instances

I was asked recently about how to alter the label on one instance of a button without having the labels of the others instances of the same button change along with it. In this video, you'll learn an important distinction between the way symbols work and the way symbol instances work.
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Continuous Animation

Continuous Animation

In this video, you'll learn how to set up a looping animation that doesn't seem like it's looping. It will look like a continuous stream flowing through a pipe.
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Rotating Sunburst Effect

Rotating Sunburst Effect

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.
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Text Swipe Effect

Text Swipe Effect

In today's tutorial, you'll learn how to create an animated text swipe effect, where the text is quickly and smoothly revealed from left to right. Text effects like this can be a little tedious to achieve, but the end result is usually well worth the effort.
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Creating a Gyroscope Animation

Creating a Gyroscope Animation

Creating a spinning ring is as easy as flipping it over and tweening it. In this video, you'll learn how to create a gyroscope effect using multiple instances of this simple technique.
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Text Gradient Fills

Text Gradient Fills

Unfortunately, applying a gradient fill to text in Flash isn't as easy as selecting the text field and then choosing a linear gradient from the Color Mixer panel. So in this video, you will learn two different methods to achieve this effect.
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Problems with Rotating Animations

Problems with Rotating Animations

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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Illustration Optimization

Illustration Optimization

Many artists prefer using hand-drawn illustration techniques for their Flash graphics, but there's often a big hit on your file size when using these types of illustrations. In this tutorial, you'll learn why this is the case, and you'll also learn a couple of techniques for optimizing those illustrations in order to reduce file size.
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Creating and Animating Clouds

Creating and Animating Clouds

One of the most popular features of Flash Professional 8 is the new "Filters" feature, which lets you add blurs, drop shadows, glows, and other filters to your objects. In today's tip, you'll learn how to use the "blur" filter to create some very realistic clouds, and then you'll learn how to animate those clouds in Flash. Unfortunately, if you don't have Flash Professional 8, you'll just have to sit back and watch.
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JavaScript Popup Windows

JavaScript Popup Windows

Unfortunately, there's no way to create a customizable popup window using only Flash. But the good news is that with a little help from JavaScript, you can create popup windows with no scrollbars, no toolbars, no menubars, and you can even specify the size of the popup window. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to do just that.
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Conditionals and Toggle Switches

Conditionals and Toggle Switches

A conditional is a way of executing a piece of code only if the circumstances are right. In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the if() statement to control a toggle switch in Flash.
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Mistakes with Actions and Buttons

Mistakes with Actions and Buttons

There are two ways to add actions to a button in Flash. You can add the actions to the button itself or you can refer to the button when adding actions to a frame. Unfortunately, the actions you add will be a little different depending on which method you choose. Because of this difference, the ActionScript involved can be a little confusing to beginners. In this video, we'll clear up all the confusion and fix some common mistakes that are made in the process.
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ComboBox Interactivity

ComboBox Interactivity

In Flash, the ComboBox component is basically nothing more than your basic dropdown list that you see in forms on the Internet. In this video, you'll learn how to use this component to communicate with another movie clip on the stage.
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Animation Setup

Animation Setup

Animation can be a tricky process if you've never done it before, but Flash makes it possible to reuse pieces of your animation so you don't have to continually redraw everything. In this tutorial, you'll learn some basics for drawing and preparing your drawings for animation in Flash.
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Digital Clock

Digital Clock

It's always helpful to know what time it is, and in today's video tip, you'll learn how to pass this information on to the users of your website. In this tutorial, you'll discover how to use dynamic text fields and Actionscript to create your own digital clock for your Flash website.
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