Flash Navigation Buttons This tutorial will teach you how to use basic tools found in Flash 8 while at the same time demonstrating how to make navigation buttons for your website. Firstly it shows you how to start a new document and draw a rectangle. Next you learn how to convert the rectangle to a movie clip symbol. Before the end of the lesson you'll also know how to create and edit layers, duplicate symbols, use frames and link your buttons to a HTML website. To start the flash navigation tutorial click on the arrow. The software used in this...
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"How to make Flash navigation buttons"
Flash Preloader Tutorial Flash preloaders come in handy to show your visitors that your movie is still loading. This should go a long way in helping them realise that there is something on the page even though they cannot yet see it. It also keeps your visitor amused for a short time and stops them closing the page or quickly moving on to the next website. This tutorial will show you how easy it is to create a flash preloader as well as demonstrate numerous tools including: 1. layers 2. align palette 3. swatches palette 4. library 5. drawing and...
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How to make a volume control, sound slider in Macromedia Flash 8 This tutorial will demonstrate how to make a media player using Flash 8. The media player will have a go and stop button as well as a volume slider that allows your visitor to increase or decrease the music level. Firstly you will be shown how to draw and color the basic shapes for your media player. Next you are taught how to animate or rather slide the volume control up and down the groove. The tutorial then talks you through the action script that needs to be...
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Flash Tutorial - Scroll the background image Learn how to easily make a scrolling background entirely in Flash. This is specifically useful for creating flash games when you need to give the illusion that a foreground image is moving across the screen. The flash tutorial doesn't use any code. It simply makes good use of Flash motion tween. To start this Flash tutorial press the go arrow. The software used in this tutorial is Adobe Flash....
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"How to make a scrolling background animation in Flash"
Flash tutorials for beginners. This tutorial will show you how to create a stick figure in Adobe Flash and move its legs as though its dancing. Before starting this Flash lesson, here is a keyboard shortcut that will help you to create frames quicker and easier: Press your keboards F7 to create a new blank frame. Firstly you create a new frame (press F7) then draw your stick figure with the paintbrush tool. You then press F6 numerous times to copy as many other frames containing the stick figure, as you need. Next, click on one of your frames and...
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How to import a movie file into Adobe Flash and add an animation to it. Have you ever wanted to learn how to create a short film or movie with Adobe Flash. For example, add an extra animation like a stick man to your movie files? To be even more creative you could maybe record a movie with your video camera specifically for interaction with an animation addon. For example, you could have an animated stick man fighting you for your computer mouse as you use the computer. With some imagination and planning, who knows, you could possibly find yourself...
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Cartoon Head Animation - Adobe Flash Tutorial As you've most likely realised by now, the best way to learn how to use Adobe Flash is to follow a fun tutorial. Not only will you learn how to use Flash, you'll also have an animation at the end of the tutorial to impress your friends with. Here is a popular tutorial aimed at beginners that will show you how to make a cartoon head animation. The animation looks similar to a billiard ball with eyes that move to show emotion. It is demonstrated in 2 parts. The software used to make...
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"How to make a flash cartoon head animation"
Flash Professional 8 / MX - Tutorial for beginners - How to use Flash 8 The video tutorial below is recommended for beginners wanting to learn how to use the following tools: Timeline - timelines control your flash animation. Layers - shows how to make a layer. Drawing and coloring shapes (circle, rectangle tools). Filling or outlining flash shapes with color. Also includes gradient fills. Rotating or scaling shapes and objects. Pen tool. Text tool. Lasso tool. Pencil tool. Brush, fill, eraser, zoom and hand tools. Frames - demonstrates how to create Adobe Flash frames and play them. Explains the...
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Adobe Flash Game Animations - Sprites Shown below are a couple of tutorials for webmasters who include Flash games into their websites. The tutorials demonstrate how making flash animations for games, differs from making animations for website headers or movies. If your new to Adobe Flash, it's recommended you first look at 2 earlier tutorials. 1. How to use Flash tools 2. Stick man flash animation The two part tutorial below demonstrates how to animate game figures, or rather sprites as they are better known, into karate type moves. The animation uses a movie clip with 17 different sprites. Each...
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Adobe Flash Tutorial - How to make an interactive car game. Anyone who plays online Flash games will tell you that car games are very popular. This tutorial will show you how to make an Adobe Flash movie where the viewer starts and stops a moving car. Furthermore, the viewer can also drag the car around the screen which is useful for panning to the left or right side of a road. Before starting the tutorial it is recommended that you already have an image of a car. Remember this lesson is teaching you how to use action script...
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Tutorial for spinning or rotating a circle in Adobe Flash This Adobe Flash tutorial demostrates how to make an animation that smoothly spins a circle. Firstly it shows you how to do it with a motion tween and one object. This works fine, however there is a short hickup or pause after each rotation. This is due to the animation being in a loop and starting again from the 20th frame back to the first. To improve on this, the tutorial continues on and demonstrates the results of adding a second layer with a bit of action script (goto play...
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Bouncing Ball Flash Tutorial with ActionScript Here is a flash tutorial on how to create a bouncing ball with ActionScript. It is recommended for intermediate animation designers. Listed further down the page, below the visual tutorial are other Flash tutorials that demonstrate how to bounce a ball using ActionScript. As you can imagine, there are numerous ways to bounce a ball. For example, straight up and down or off walls to the left and right. Hence the reason for listing a few different tutorials. The software used to make a bouncing ball in this tutorial is Adobe Flash. More bouncing...
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Free .FLA files to use in Adobe Flash - websites, games, preloaders, intros and hundreds more! Learning from others is often the most effective way to teach yourself a new design method. For example, if your unsure how to make an Adobe Flash preloader, then download a couple of preloader .FLA files that others have created and play with them to see how its done. You will need Adobe Flash software to use these FLA files. Listed below are many useful .FLA files you can download for free to learn from: 1. DeviantART offers hundreds of free FLA files for...
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Text animation in Flash This tutorial demonstrates how to create animated text in Adobe / Macromedia Flash. Animating text is one of the most popular movements that is often used for creating banners or intros. The lesson is pretty involved so its recommended you watch it a few times to familiarize yourself with text animation. The software used in this tutorial is Adobe Flash. Other useful resources for Flash text animation: 1. Kirupa has a very basic text animation tutorial for Adobe Flash users. This step by step tutorial is recommended for beginners who want to learn how to scroll...
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Adobe Flash tutorial on how to use sprites Here is a really useful tutorial for future flash game developers wanting to know how to use sprites. To follow along with this tutorial you need a png file that contains the sprite characters. You can download some png files from searching sprite sheet on google images. You'll notice if you follow that link it has literally hundreds of sprites. Some are in gif format while others are png. If you want to use a super mario brothers sprite like shown in this tutorial then you can find it at: Mario Brothers...
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"How to use sprites Flash tutorial"
How to zoom in your Flash movie clip, re-scaling it as you go. Here is a useful demonstration showing you how to change the scale and position of a MovieClip. In other words how to zoom and pan a movie clip then re scale it. The action script for this tutorial is quite long, so to save you time in typing it all into your Flash movie, we've included it below for you to copy and paste. What it does basically is tell the program to fit everything inside the square. function camControl() { parentColor.setTransform(camColor.getTransform()); var _l4 = sX /...
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Adobe (Macromedia) Flash Tutorial - motion tweens Motion tweens are important for animation beginners to understand and learn how to use properly from the very start. You will use this technique in just about every flash movie you create. Tweening allows the movie to be displayed smoothly from one frame to another. Or in other words creating motion in your Flash movie. You can make a motion tween using a shape or a symbol. In this tutorial a cirlce is drawn then created into a symbol instance. It then uses the symbol instance to demonstrate how to create a motion...
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Learn how to write actionscript with Flash 8 ActionScript Bible If you've been following our series of Flash Tutorials, you'll notice most of them are geared towards beginners and intermediate users of Adobe Flash. They help give you a good basic understanding of how Adobe Flash works and how to use it. For most of the tutorials that include actionscript, the code is supplied for you to copy and paste to your movie project. However this doesn't necessarily teach you how to write actionscript code. This is where a good book like Flash 8 ActionScript Bible is useful. The book...
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Free Flash tutorials We now have a good collection of free Macromedia / Adobe Flash tutorials and lessons to help you get started with this fantastic animation program. If you don't already have a copy of Flash, you can download a trial version from: http://www.adobe.com/downloads/ The first tutorial you'll want to follow, is one that explains the toolbars and how to use them: How to use Flash Professional 8 tools. Note: if you own a different version than Flash Professional 8, many of the tools don't change between versions. Therefore the lesson listed above should be helpful in teaching you...
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