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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 how to navigate the toolbar as well.

Next, listed below are a few tutorials created with beginners in mind. They will help you learn the basics of how to use Flash:

1. How to make a flash cartoon head animation

2. Stick man animation

3. How to make a scrolling background animation in Flash

4. How to create and use motion tweens Adobe Flash

Intermediate users are those animators who already understand the basics of using the toolbar. The following Flash tutorials are aimed at those intermediate users:

1. How to make Flash navigation buttons

2. How to make a smooth rotating circle

3. How to make a ball bounce

4. How to create Flash text animations

While our list of advanced Flash tutorials and lessons include:

1. How to zoom in a Flash movie clip, then re-scale it

2.How to use game sprites

3. Action scripting for Flash car game

4. How to make game animations using Sprites : demonstrates how to make them move etc.

5. Using Flash to add animations to a video movie

6. Create a volume sound slider

7. How to make a Flash preloader

Extra posts of use to all Flash animators include:

1. List of free Flash .fla files available for download

2. Review of Flash 8 actionscript bible