Flash Basics Tutorials

Alpha in Flash

Alpha in Flash

Changing your objects' alpha is something that everyone using Flash should know. In this tutorial, we will take a closer look at alpha property and check what it actually can be used for.
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PIxel fonts in Flash

PIxel fonts in Flash

Effective ways of using pixel fonts in Flash.
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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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Wolf Illustration

Wolf Illustration

In this tutorial, you will learn how to draw a wolf in few steps using Line and Paint Bucket Tool.
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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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Making a vector map from a bitmap

Making a vector map from a bitmap

Learn to create a pure vector map, which will look sharp and clean, by using the drawing tools in Flash. A bitmap picture will serve as a model.
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Using Symbols

Using Symbols

What is a symbol? This tutorial will explain why using symbols plays such an important role in Flash.
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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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Sound Without Action Script

Sound Without Action Script

This tutorial will teach you how to import a sound into a flash, how to create a button wich will make a sound on click. This tutorial is for beginners who have no experience using Flash.
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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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Changing Colors inside Symbols

Changing Colors inside Symbols

This great video tutorial shows just how easy it is to change the colors inside a symbol. Whether you want to change the color of your character's clothing, or alter the skin color, this tutorial will show you two different ways to easily customize your art.
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Flash FAQ - XML packets and XPAth

Flash FAQ - XML packets and XPAth

The Flash-XML FAQ aims to provide a definitive source for common questions about Flash and its interaction with XML (and XML datasources).
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Exporting Captivate to Flash MX

Exporting Captivate to Flash MX

The development team for Captivate has covered all the bases by also keeping in mind "power users." These users, like you, not only use Captivate, but also integrate their demos and simulations with Flash MX 2004, learning management systems, websites and more.
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Different approaches to settings

Different approaches to settings

Use the Set Variable action in Flash. This example uses a frame action, though it can also be done using a button action.
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Copy to Grid Effect

Copy to Grid Effect

Learn how to create a lot objects using Copy to Grid Effect.
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Picture as Poster

Picture as Poster

This tutorial will show you how to convert a normal picture in the picture that seems like a poster using trace option in Macromedia Flash. This is very cool and practical effect which you can use it wherever you like. It is so easily to create it, so let's go!
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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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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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Simple timeline preloader in Flash

Simple timeline preloader in Flash

This tutorial will teach you how to create Timeline Preloader in Flash MX 2004.
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Flash versus HTML : A real debate ?

Flash versus HTML : A real debate ?

5-6 years ago there was the phenomena of "Flashmania" all over the web. Big corporate names, especially in the car industry, were all going for full Flash websites. But where have they all gone ? It looks like most of these companies are now back to the old HTML way of doing things. What happened ? Well it looks like things have just been put into place.
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Simple Shadow Effect

Simple Shadow Effect

Learn how to create a simple shadow effect, which you can use for some text, logo or something.
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Flash Development : Common Mistakes

Flash Development : Common Mistakes

We all make mistakes and this is good because it is how we learn. I thought it would be a good idea to try to set up a little list of common mistakes that I regularly see in Flash development.
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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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Masking Effect in FlashMX 2004

Masking Effect in FlashMX 2004

This tutorial will teach you the basics of masking in Flash MX 2004.
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Layers in FlashMX 2004

Layers in FlashMX 2004

This tutorial will teach you how to work on layers using Flash MX 2004.
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Organizing Your Flash Files

Organizing Your Flash Files

Are you an organized Macromedia Flash developer or designer ? Here are some tips and tricks that might help you improve your productivity.
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Optimizing your Flash SWFs

Optimizing your Flash SWFs

This article will give you some tips and tricks that will help you to optimize your Flash content to be sure that your SWF will run fast and smoothly on most computers.
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Custom Flash Cursors

Custom Flash Cursors

Learn how to create a custom cursors for your flash movies
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Trace Bitmap

Trace Bitmap

This tutorial will show you how to turn a bitmap graphic into vector, and by that way allow you to zoom into a vector graphic without any danger of loosing quality of the graphic.
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Mouse pointer replacement

Mouse pointer replacement

Create a new cursor for your mouse and show its current coordinates on the screen as it is moved around.
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