Flash Tutorials

• Animation Tutorials
  • Adobe Flash Tutorials

    We hope the following free Flash Animation Tutorials and Flash Actionscript Tutorials will help you, especially if you are a Flash beginner.

    Flash Animation Tutorials

    Check out our free Adobe Flash animation tutorials listed below.

    Flash Symbols

    In this tutorial you'll learn the basic concepts of Flash symbols, symbol types, creating and using them. Read about basics of Flash graphics, Flash buttons and Flash movieclips.

    Flash Animation Basics

    This tutorial teaches the basics of Flash Animation by covering creation of simple animations using motion tween, shape tween, guided tween and frame-by-frame animation.

    Flash Text Basics

    This tutorial explains the basics of using Flash text and the 3 types of Textboxes - Static, Input & Dynamic.

    Advanced Flash Buttons

    This Flash tutorial teaches how to convert a simple button into cool button effects using movieclips, sound and actionscript. Teaches the first type: Flash Movieclip Button.

    Flash Sound Button

    In this Flash tutorial you can learn how to include sound files in Flash buttons.

    Flash Actionscript Button

    Learn how to create a Flash actionscript button using actionscript controlled tweening and masking in Flash.

    Cool Flash Effects

    Flash tutorials to create cool flash effects using simple techniques like tweening, masking, etc.

    Optimizing Masking Animations

    In this tutorial you'll learn how to optimize animations when masking pictures using Flash.

    Outline Effect

    A tutorial on how to create an attractive outline effect over a bitmap image in Flash.

    Shape Hint Effect

    Flash tutorial to create smooth shape tweens by adding a shape hint to the Shape.

    Sinewave Background Effect

    This Flash tutorial teaches you how to create a moving sinewave effect as your background.

    Cool Text Effects

    Learn how to create simple and cool text effects using basic techniques like tweening, masking, etc.

    Flash Graphic Effects

    Learn how to create attractive graphic objects that use various fill options/effects to make unique and attractive effects. More coming soon!

    Software Required

    
    

    Compatible Versions of Flash for this Tutorial

    Flash CS5 Professional | Flash CS4 Professional
    Note: For uses of lower versions of Flash some visual interface images would differ.
    Recommended Version: Adobe Flash CS5 Professional
• Actionscript Tutorials

  • Flash Actionscript Tutorials

    Check out our free Adobe Flash actionscript tutorials listed below.

    Flash Custom Cursor

    In Flash you can change the standard pointer cursor and use Movieclips as Custom Cursors using simple actionscript.

    Start Stop Movieclips

    This Flash tutorial teaches how to start and stop the animation at runtime and control movieclips using basic actionscript code.

    HTML in Flash Textbox

    This tutorial teaches you how to preserve rich text formatting in a flash textbox like font, font style, hyperlink, paragraph, etc., using the appropriate HTML tags.

    Flash Digital Clock

    In this tutorial you will learn how to display digital time using actionscript in Flash. You will learn about the date object, how to write functions and call them.

    Sound On/Off Button

    This Flash tutorial teaches how to play and stop sound/music files using simple actionscript.

    Flash Text Scroller

    This tutorial explains how to create simple and advanced scrollers for textboxes in Flash using Actionscript.

    Flash Preloader

    A Flash preloader is useful in preventing partial loading of a movie while it plays. Learn how to create a very simple preloader using Flash actionscript.

    Import External Data

    Through this Flash tutorial you will learn how to obtain data from external sources. We have covered Text files, ASP/PHP files and XML files.

    Software Required

    
    

    Compatible Versions of Flash for this Tutorial

    Flash CS5 Professional | Flash CS4 Professional
    Note: For uses of lower versions of Flash some visual interface images would differ.
    Recommended Version: Adobe Flash CS5 Professional
• Flash 'n' ASP

  • Flash 'n' ASP Unleashed

    This tutorial series will help a beginner understand how Flash works with a database as its backend for storing and retriving records.

    Flash and ASP Guide

    This tutorial covers the usage of ASP and Flash to bring about Dynamic data display and manipulation i.e. interactivity into Flash, Data transfer to the database from the user via the Flash interface, Validation of fields in Flash forms using JavaScript and VB Script, Setting of cookies on the client browser if desired and Handling Flash & ASP files to make the application scalable and optimized for the web.

    1. Flash and ASP Introduction
    2. Basics of Flash and ASP
    3. Preparing the Stage
    4. Sending Data from your Flash form to the database
    5. Getting Data from the database into your Flash form
       • ASP gets the data from the database and sends it to Flash
       • Flash Displays the data
    6. Flash preloader that waits for the data to load
    7. Validation of fields in Flash forms using JScript and VBScript

    Software Required

    
    

    Compatible Versions of Flash for this Tutorial

    Flash CS5 Professional | Flash CS4 Professional
    Note: For uses of lower versions of Flash some visual interface images would differ.
    Recommended Version: Adobe Flash CS5 Professional

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