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Flash 8 Tutorial

An online Flash 8 tutorial which covers creating graphics, working with layers, adding motion, sound, and text to your Flash 8 movie.

Advance Preloader Tutorial

A tutorial that shows how to create a preloader which show actual percent, Bytes Loaded, Bytes Remaining etc in just a few easy steps

Steps: File»New. Then go to Modify»Movie and change the width and height to whatever your preference might be. The one I'm making is Width: 550 Height: 400. We'll make the preloader first. Set up two scenes, the first one is the preloader and the second is the actual movie…

Revolving Text Tutorial

A tutorial that shows how to provide a revolving text effect in just a few easy steps Flash Tutorials

Step: Start off by starting a new movie: File»New. Then go to Modify»Movie and change the width and height to whatever your prefference might be. The one I'm making is Width: 200 Height: 50. Then make a new symbol (Button) by going Insert»New Symbol and name it Button1 and behavior as a button. On the white screen, draw what you want the button to look like, just as I have and make sure you have text in it….

Custom Cursor Tutorial

A tutorial that shows how you can open multiple pages in a same browser window, have static navigation bars etc in just a few easy steps

Sections that are covered are how to create basic frames, advanced frames, inline frames, Frames: Good/Bad etc…

Splash Screen Tutorial

A tutorial that shows how to create splash screen in just a few easy steps.

In this tutorial, I'll show you how to create an animated splash screen for a web site that displays a moving logo, and then opens a web page in the browser window …

Masking Tutorial

A tutorial that shows how to use masking in animation in just a few easy steps

First, import the Graphics Unleashed logo as shown at right. Renamed the layer Logo (double-click on the default name "Layer1," and type a new layer name). If you have either a bitmap or vector based graphic to use, import it into Flash now (choose File, Import, choose a file type and navigate to your file) …

Scroller Tutorial

A tutorial that shows how to import a text file into Flash and be able to display it and scroll it in just a few easy steps

Steps: Start off by starting a new movie: File»New. Then go to Modify»Movie and change the width and height to whatever your prefference might be. The one I'm making is Width: 550 Height: 400. Then create the up and down arrows as it is on the left. Then select the Up Arrow and choose Insert»Convert to Symbol.Name the up arrow, "Arrow 1" and the bottom arrow, "Arrow 2", both as behavior button….

Typewriter Tutorial

A tutorial that shows how to provide a typewriter effect in just a few easy steps

Steps: Start off by starting a new movie: File»New. Then go to Modify»Movie and change the width and height to whatever your prefference might be. The one I'm making is Width: 200 Height: 50. Then make a new symbol (Button) by going Insert»New Symbol and name it Button1 and behavior as a button. On the white screen, dra what you want the button to look like, just as I have and make sure you have text in it….

Alpha/Onion Skin Tutorial

A tutorial that shows how to get a cool alpha fading, onion skin type of effect into your website in just a few easy steps

Building Web Forms Tutorial

A tutorial that shows how to create Flash based Web Forms in just a few easy steps

Steps: Pop open Flash, create a new movie and then create a new Button symbol. Name it "textBox". In the Symbol Editor, define a rectangular textbox. and then use the Windows -> Panels -> Text Properties panel to turn it into an input text box. Set a variable name for this text box as well – I've called mine "name"…

Morphing Tutorial

A tutorial that shows how to do morphing in just a few easy steps

Steps: Start a new movie [CTRL+N] . Modify the size of your movie (Modify>Movie) to 150×150 pixels.Enter any text on your main movie by clicking on the Text Tool Button . I used a Times New Roman font on this example and font size = 150. Use your mouse or your keyboard arrow to center the text…