Some great video tutorials from those nice guys at LearnFlash.com Mostly taught in tips and trix style, great for learners or as a refrence for more experienced Flashers :)
If you learn a little something from each of the tutorials, you will soon be Flashing like a pro'
P.S. I never made any of these tutorials, some American whiz kid called craig did all the work. If you sign up to the website you will receive 2 or 3 tutorials a week
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I'm too good to you lot.
ACTIONSCRIPT PATHS
When working in Flash, it's imperative to know how to point your ActionScript in the right direction. For example, if you want a button click to send you to a different page in your website, the code for that click will depend on what timeline the button is placed in. In this video, you'll learn how to target your actionscript to point to the right timeline and the right objects.
Today's video contains information that will be very useful if you want to get into the world of creating games with Flash. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to capture keystrokes to trigger events. More specifically, you'll learn how to move an object around the stage using your arrow keys.
If you've spent any time at all looking at popular Flash websites on the internet, you've probably come across a photo gallery with a series of thumbnails at the bottom of the page that automatically scroll left and right in the opposite direction of the horizontal movement of your mouse cursor. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create this automatic scrolling effect using a simple calculation and just a couple lines of Actionscript.
BUILDING A BASIC WEBSITE
Building a basic website in Flash can be easier than you might think. In this video, Craig teaches you some of the basic theory behind putting a website together using Flash, and he jumps right in and gets you started creating your first website.
Today's effect would look really cool as a looping background effect for your website. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to create an underwater bubble effect for those of you with a love for all things aquatic.
I got an email this week asking for help with adding actions to a button in Flash. Where exactly do the actions go? In this video, I'll show you two different places where you can add your button actions, and I'll explain the pros and cons of each.
In today's video tutorial, I'll show you how to create an animation of a flipping coin. For this animation, I used two separate pictures of a coin--the heads side and the tails side.
Even drawing is more fun in Flash Professional 8! In today's free tutorial, Craig will show you how to quickly create a very professional button for your Flash website using a couple of Flash's new filters.
In today's tip, I'll show you how to create your own custom mouse cursor for use in your Flash file, and I'll show you how to avoid some common problems associated with doing this.
It's always helpful to know what time it is, and in today's video tip, you'll learn how to pass this information on to the users of your website. In this tutorial, you'll discover how to use dynamic text fields and Actionscript to create your own digital clock for your Flash website.
If you're on the homepage of your website, obviously it won't do the user much good to click on the "home" button of your menu. In this video, you'll learn how to disable a button when you're on the page that the button is designed to take you to.
Today's video tutorial is an excerpt from the soon to be released "Flash Animation & Intros" video series. In this tip, you'll learn a creative way to animate your text off of the stage by tweening each letter individually.
Trying to keep the novices in mind, in this tip Craig will show you how to create text that fades in. To make it a little more interesting and a little more useful for those of you who already know how to fade in text, Craig has also added some subtle animation that will hopefully give you some ideas for your own website.
| HANDWRITING EFFECT |
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create an effect in Flash where it appears that the text is being written on the stage as you watch it. |
| LOADING PICTURES DYNAMICALLY |
The loader component in Flash is a very handy tool for loading external images into your Flash file. In this video, you'll learn the fundamentals behind creating a photo gallery, using the loader component to load pictures one at a time. |
A website won't do you much good if your buttons won't take you from one page to the next. In this video, Craig shows you how to add actions to your buttons in order to create basic navigation for your site.
| METALLIC TEXT EFFECT |
In today's tutorial, you'll learn a very quick and easy way to use Flash's drawing tools to give your logo a metallic look. |
ANIMATED BUTTONS
In this video Craig shows you how to create a button with a movie clip symbol in the "over" state, so that when the user hovers their mouse cursor over the button, a short animation occurs.
| PINWHEEL EFFECT |
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create your own pinwheel in Flash. When you move your cursor over the shape, it will start spinning, slowly at first, then picking up speed. The pinwheel will continue spinning as long as your cursor is hovering over it, and then when you move your cursor away, it will gradually slow down and stop |
CREATING A SHADOW FOR AN ANIMATION
Want to give your animation a little more life? In this video, Craig will show you how to add a bit of depth to your animation by creating an animated shadow to go along with it.
Transitioning from one page in your website to another can be pretty boring if you don't try to give it a little life. In this video, Craig will show you how to create simple, animated transitions between the pages of your website.
If your users have to sit and stare at a blank screen until your website is finally finished loading, chances are you will lose many potential viewers. In this video, Craig explains the importance of letting your users know that your website is indeed loading, and he shows you how to create a simple preloader that will do the trick.
In today's free video tutorial, Craig will show you how to create a simple sunrise effect in Flash by tweening a rectangle with a multicolored linear gradient applied to it.
TRANSPARENT BACKGROUND
Suppose you've got a background image you want to use for your Flash website, but you want it to take up more space in your browser window than just the size of your swf file. With this technique, you'll learn how to simply add a couple lines of code to your html file in order to make your Flash background transparent.
With the release of our new series, "Building Websites in Flash 8", we thought we'd show you one more time exactly what you can expect to learn in this video series by featuring the "Website Tour" excerpt one more time. In this excerpt from the series, Craig walks you through the Flash website that you'll be creating throughout the course of the series.
Want to know the secret to creating an animated zoom-in effect on a graphic in Flash? It's easy! Just make the object BIGGER! Still need help? Just watch the tutorial.
Animation can be a tricky process if you don’t know what you’re doing. In this video, trainer Craig Campbell will give you a few tips on drawing in Flash and setting up your drawings for animation with Flash.
Common Mistakes with Actions and Buttons in Flash
There are two ways to add actions to a button in Flash. You can add the actions to the button itself or you can refer to the button when adding actions to a frame. Unfortunately, the actions you add will be a little different depending on which method you choose. Because of this difference, the ActionScript involved can be a little confusing to beginners. In this video, we'll clear up all the confusion and fix some common mistakes that are made in the process.
In Flash, the ComboBox component is basically nothing more than your basic dropdown list that you see in forms on the Internet. In this video, Craig will show you how to use this component to communicate with another movie clip on the stage.
Swapping Movie Clip Depths
In this video tutorial, you'll learn how to use the swapDepths() function in Flash to change the stacking order of movie clips on the stage. In other words, if you want to be able to click on a partially obscured object to bring it on top of the object that's obscuring it, then this tutorial is for you.TOP
Sometimes you might notice that your Flash file is getting a little bit too big, and you start to wonder how you whittle that file size down to something a little more manageable. In this video, Flash guru Craig Campbell will teach you a couple ways that you can reuse assets in your Flash file in order to cut your file size down significantly.
Want to animate but don’t have the skill to draw your own illustrations? No sweat! In this video, you’ll learn how to take a clipart illustration, convert it to vector art, edit it, break it apart, and animate it. The example used in this video is a dog with a wagging tail.
In today's video tip, you'll learn how to create a text effect where the text starts out large, in your face, and blurry before falling with a thud onto the stage and regaining it's focus. This tip features Flash Professional 8's filters, so if you're using an older version of Flash, you might have to leave out that step. TOP
One of the most popular features of Flash Professional 8 is the new 'Filters' feature, which lets you add blurs, drop shadows, glows, and other filters to your objects. In today's tip, you'll learn how to use the 'blur' filter to create some very realistic clouds, and then you'll learn how to animate those clouds in Flash. Unfortunately, if you don't have Flash Professional 8, you'll just have to sit back and watch.
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.
In an earlier tip, I spoke a lot about using movie clip symbols as buttons, but there's one very important thing that was left out. If you've been having problems getting your movie clip buttons to work properly, then you might want to watch this video.
Thanks to Flash's numerous User Interface components, creating things like multiple choice quizzes can be pretty simple. In this video, you'll learn how to create your own multiple choice quiz using radio buttons and some Actionscript.
Unfortunately, linking to a pdf file isn't as easy as putting the name of the file inside the getURL() function call . . . at least not if you want it to open up in a browser window. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to embed a pdf file in an html document and then link to that document in Flash.
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.
Sometimes if a button's purpose is unclear in an application or on a website, you can hover over that button and a small tooltip will pop up describing the button in more detail. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create just such a tooltip for your Flash buttons!
Today's tip is an excerpt from the upcoming "Begginer's ActionScript 2.0" video series. This new series will replace the old "Intro to Actionscript" series and will be 2 to 3 times longer. The new series takes a much more comprehensive approach to introductory level ActionScript concepts and techniques.
Today's tip is another sneak peek at the upcoming video series, "Introduction to ActionScript 2.0". This new series will replace the current "Intro to ActionScript" series and will be much more comprehensive. In this preview, you'll learn how to add ActionScript for a button to a keyframe. Doing so will allow you to keep all your code in one central location.
In this excerpt from the upcoming "Introduction to ActionScript
2.0", Craig Campbell shows you how to create animations in
ActionScript using the onEnterFrame event.
In this excerpt from the upcoming "Intro to Actionscript" series, trainer Craig Campbell shows you how to dynamically attach movie clips to the stage with ActionScript using the attachMovie() function.
Today's tip is another sneak peek at the upcoming video series, "Introduction to Actionscript 2.0". In this tutorial, you'll learn the basics of adding sound to your Flash file dynamically with ActionScript. Adding sound this way allows for much more flexibility when controlling your sound, a topic which is discussed much more in depth in the video series.
In this excerpt from "Intro to Actionscript", you will learn the basics behind setting up and using arrays in ActionScript 2.0.
Creating a spinning ring is as easy as flipping it over and tweening it. In this video, you'll learn how to create a gyroscope effect using multiple instances of this simple technique.
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.
In today's tutorial, you'll learn how to animate a series of lines to make it look like they're drawing themselves onto the stage. This is done using a simple mask.TOP
Creating an animation of an object rotating is very easy to do, whether you do it with tweens or in Actionscript. Unfortunately, sometimes the rotations don't occur exactly how you would want them to, because by default, the anchor for the rotation is the center point of the object being rotated. In this tutorial, you will learn how to change that anchor point for both tweened animations and Actionscript animations.
In today's tutorial, you'll learn how to create a slideshow that automatically changes pictures every five seconds. This task is accomplished using setInterval(), which allows you to create a delay between pictures so you don't have to insert a bunch of needless frames.
In this basic tutorial, you will learn how to highlight your logo by putting a rotating sunburst effect behind it. You'll also learn an important lesson about reusing graphic elements whenever possible.
Unfortunately, applying a gradient fill to text in Flash isn't as easy as selecting the text field and then choosing a linear gradient from the Color Mixer panel. So in this video, you will learn two different methods to achieve this effect.
In today's tutorial, you'll learn how to create an animated text swipe effect, where the text is quickly and smoothly revealed from left to right. Text effects like this can be a little tedious to achieve, but the end result is usually well worth the effort.
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.
You can motion tween a lot of things in Flash--position, transparency, color, etc--but did you know you could ALSO tween a filter in Flash Professional 8? In this video, Craig will show you how!
Creating a bouncing ball animation can be a little tedious if you do it visually in Flash. In today's video tutorial, Craig will show you how to create a bounce animation with only a few lines of ActionScript by calling on the Tween class and the Bounce class.
In today's tutorial, you'll learn how to create a two-layer animation. In the inner animation, you'll create a simple butterfly flapping its wings over and over. In the outer animation, this wing-flapping movie clip will be animated along a path.
Button Depths
If you put two buttons next to each other that both expand in size on rollover, then chances are at one point, one of the buttons will be obscuring the other. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to bring an object to the top of the layer stack in order to prevent this problem.
In this video, you'll learn a very simple way to create a series of buttons that will allow the user to change the background image in your Flash website. The methods described in this video can also be used to make a simple photo gallery in Flash.
In this video, you'll learn how to set up a looping animation that doesn't seem like it's looping. It will look like a continuous stream flowing through a pipe.
In today's tutorials, you'll learn how to create a simple airplane animation with a small trail of exhaust following the plane around. This would also work for a cartoonish car, bus, or train animation. Get creative with it! Go nuts!
In this video tutorial, you will learn how to take a single Movie Clip of a flame particle and create a beautiful, semi-random fiery effect with it using Actionscript.
Unfortunately, Flash doesn't have any functionality for creating true 3D animations by itself, but if you know a few tricks, sometimes you can fake it. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create a somewhat 3D-esque rotating globe effect in Flash.
A gradient mask is a great way to make a reflection effect. However, there arises a problem when you try to make a gradient mask visually in Flash. Flash treats the gradient like it was just a solid fill. But don't worry! There's a way to overcome this if you apply the mask using actionscript, and in this video, you'll learn how.
You're gonna need Flash Professional 8 for this tutorial. In this video, you'll learn how to use Flash 8's blending modes to create a circle that follows the cursor around on the stage, inverting the colors of the image in the layer below the circle.
How do you set up a movie clip animation if you don't always want it moving in the same direction or doing the exact same thing? In this video, you'll learn the concept of setting up different "states" for your movie clip that can be controlled with external buttons.
Surprisingly enough, whether you create a new symbol or convert something TO a symbol, you're making a brand new symbol either way. In this video, you'll a little bit more about the differences between these two processes, and you'll also learn some basic concepts about editing symbols. TOP
In recent tutorials, we've talked about how to use the Tween class in Flash in order to create animations in Actionscript. But what if you want to create a second animation that occurs only after the first Tween has finished animating? In this video, you'll learn how to use the "onMotionFinished" event handler to deal with this problem.
In this excerpt from the upcoming "Introduction to ActionScript 2.0", Craig Campbell shows you how to create animations in ActionScript using the onEnterFrame event.
In today's tutorial, you'll learn how to create a mouse cursor trail that looks a lot more difficult than it actually is! This process will involve making one simple movie clip and then attaching that movie clip dynamically to the stage at runtime.
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.
In today's beginner-level tutorial, you'll learn how to create a very simple, yet elegant, button symbol with a semitransparent background that loses its transparency on rollOver.
In the previous tip, you learned how to create a simple button symbol with a semitransparent background that brightens up when the user hovers over it. In today's video, you'll learn how to achieve an identical effect, except in this video, you'll learn how to do it using a movie clip symbol and a little bit of ActionScript.
Learning how to animate using Actionscript instead of keyframes will eventually become essential if you plan to continue growing as a Flash developer. In today's tutorial, you will learn how to import and use the Tween class to create a rollOver and rollOut effect for your buttons.
Today's tip is a simple, though somewhat tedious effect, that allows us to create a typewriter animation where the user can see the text being typed onto the stage. The animation will be synced up with a sound file.
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create an animation where you dematerialize an image into a bunch of small squares and then animate those squares off the stage.
If you dipped your mouse cursor under water, what would you get?Bubbles, of course! In this tutorial, you'll learn how to makebubbles appear to rise out of your user's cursor.
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create a timer in Flash that will count down the time to a given date in days, hours, minutes, and seconds.This is a great tool for counting down to holidays, birthdays, anniversaries, etc.TOP
Once you've drawn your snowflake in Flash, this video will teach you how to animate multiple instances of your snowflakes falling before your eyes. This tutorial uses the Math.random method in order to give your snowfall a more natural feel.
In today's tutorial, you'll learn how to create an animation of a glass being filled up with water. As the glass fills, the water ripples and waves for a slight touch of cartoonish realism.
In a past tip, we talked about using gradient masks to create realistic reflections in Flash. In today's tutorial, you'll learn how to use a similar method to create a mask with soft edges.
This tutorial is another excerpt from our upcoming video series,
"Introduction to Flash 8". In this video, you'll learn the
basics of one of the new features of Flash 8--Object Drawing
Mode.
Today's tip is an excerpt from our brand new "Introduction to Flash 8" video series, and in this clip, you will learn all about how to create shape tween animations where one shape
morphs into another shape.
For today's holiday tutorial, you will learn how to create a countdown timer that will count the days, hours, minutes, and seconds left until the New Year, and once the timer reaches
zero, it will trigger an animation to occur.
In this special New Year tutorial, you will learn how to play with fireworks without setting any grassfires, and you will do so bylearning how to create a fireworks show from scratch in Flash Professional 8.
It can be very useful to learn how to calculate the distance in pixels between two objects. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use just such a calculation in order to change the size of a
movie clip. As the user's mouse cursor gets closer to the movie clip, the movie clip will grow. As the cursor moves away, the movie clip will shrink back to it's original size.
In today's video tutorial, you'll learn how to create a transition effect where one piece of text fades away in a puff of smoke while another piece of text fades in in its place.
Today, we have a special holiday treat for you. In this tutorial, you will learn how to draw your own snowflake in Flash using a very effective technique that involves the Transform
Panel. Also, stay tuned for Monday's tip, when you will learn how to make your snowflakes fall from the sky.
In this video, you'll learn how to create the functionality to perform a given event over and over every few seconds with an invisible Actionscript timer.
In honor of Thanksgiving, we're going to devote today's tutorialto smoking your own turkey in Flash. Using the blur filter, you'll learn how to create plumes of fragrant smoke rising off of your perfectly-cooked turkey.
In this tutorial, we will discuss an effect that is overlooked a
lot of the time, its called the ease effect. If you want your
animation to stand out and have a better look and feel than the
ease effect will help.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a circle that the
user can drag around the stage. But when the user releases his
mouse, the circle will snap back to the center of the stage as
though it were tied to a bungee cord.TOP
In this tutorial, we take a look at how to make an animated
button with a series of hidden letters that jump out from behind
the button when the user hovers the mouse cursor over it.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a spotlight that
will follow your mouse cursor around and highlight buttons on
your stage when you move over them.
Last week we looked at creating a fancy particle flame effect
using Flash. In today's tutorial, we're going to stick with the
same general idea, except you're going to learn how to create a
hand-drawn fire animation, consisting of three frames that
This is a very popular preloader but is rarely explained in a
simple tutorial. Add some pro ellements to your site by
creating a preloader that fills you own logo. In this tutorial,
you will learn the basics to any preloader mask.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create two draggable
circles that will always remain connected via a dynamic line
that you will create in Actionscript. No matter where you move
the circles, they will always be connected by the line.
Today's tutorial simply requires a little bit of tracing work
and some ActionScript. In this video, you'll learn how to
create a map with regions that are highlighted as you hover over
them.
In today's tutorial, you'll learn how to create a motion path animation of a ball traveling around a helix, or spiral, structure in Flash.TOP
Want to learn how to create your own raw dancing animation in Flash? Now's your chance! In this video, you'll learn how to import a video, embed it into your Flash file, and trace over it in order to create your own dance animation!
Add a sleek element to your site and give your users a real time digital clock to keep time. Design the clock using action script and import into your site as an .swf.
Ah, the sound that everyone loves to hear! In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create a simple animation of a dripping faucet in Flash. This involves shape tweening as well as some good, old fashioned frame by frame animation.
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.
In this two-part tutorial, you'll learn how to create a text field that scrolls automatically, and then you'll learn how to make the scrolling stop when the user hovers the mouse cursor
over the text field.
Ever wondered how to create your own little popup window inside your Flash site that pops up whenever the user clicks on a button? In this video, you'll learn how to do just that using the attachMovie() method of the MovieClip class.
Creating a spinning animation is very simple in Actionscript, taking only a few lines of code. So since it is so simple, we will take this tutorial one step further and show you how you
can allow your users to control the spin and the direction of the spin using their arrow keys.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a button that goes spastic and starts jumping around whenever the user hovers the mouse cursor over it. It is as simple as putting a movie
clip in the "over" state of the button. Check it out!
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 panelto do just that. In particular, this tutorial will show you how to illustrate the cross section of an orange.
In today's tip, I'll show you how to create your own custom mouse cursor for use in your Flash file, and I'll show you how to avoid some common problems associated with doing this.
Basic Slideshow
In this tutorial, Craig Campbell shows you how to create a basic slideshow from scratch by importing pictures into their own keyframes and creating "next" and "previous" buttons so the user can cycle through the images.
In this tutorial, Craig builds on the previous tip by adding animated transitions between each of the images in the slideshow.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to assign controls to a Movie Clip by using actionscript. You will learn to add variables to control speed and keys that activate the action.
Creating a Coin-Flip Button
In this tutorial, Craig will show you how to create a round button in your Flash file that flips over when you hover your mouse over it and then flips over again when you move your mouse away.
Preview It's time to replace the boring text link in the bottom-right corner of the home page with something that stands out a little better. In this video, Craig creates an animated button to take its place.
In this tutorial, you will add actionscript to a Movie Clip to make it loop. You will learn to add variables to that actionscript to affect the speed easily. You can add this code to a variety of backgrounds and foregrounds.
Have you ever had any pesky ActionScript errors that you just couldn't figure out? Ever had a Flash file that wouldn't work, and you just couldn't figure out why? Well, stop your worrying! In this tutorial, Craig Campbell will walk you through a couple steps that should help you as you're trying to debug your ActionScript code.
This is a popular interactive effect for your site. In this tutorial, you will learn some simple action script that can turn any graphic or object into a drag and drop item.
This is a question that comes up all the time, how to create a simple drop down menu. In this tutorial, you will learn the basics behind a simple drop down menu by using transparent buttons to create the rollover effect.
Want your users to stick around your website a little longer? Try giving them something interactive to do, like drawing on the stage. In this video, you'll learn how to allow your users to click and drag on the stage in order to create their own drawings.
Creating an interactive mask can be very confusing. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a masked image that can be explored by a user. This will be a good effect to use in banners or ads.
Creating a Flyout Menu
Everybody wants to create their own animated menus that suddenly appear out of nowhere when they hover over a button . . . don't they? Well, if they do, then Craig Campbell is here to show them how!
In this tutorial, trainer Craig Campbell will show you how to create a sense of depth in your animations by shifting focus from one object to another.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to animate simple fog using the blur filter. You will aslo learn how to loop that Movie Clip using the timeline correctly.
We will take a stroll down memory lane and see where the banner ad started and how far it has come over the last 13 years. We will look at some classic examples of banners that have lasted for years - almost unheard of in a medium that demands constant change.
If you've been working with Flash at all recently, then you've probably noticed an annoying little quirk when trying to view your Flash files in Internet Explorer, where you have to click to "activate" your Flash file in the browser before you can interact with it. Fortunately, there's a way to get around this little quirk, and in this tutorial, trainer Craig Campbell will show you how.
Importing Video made simple. Let's learn how to import your video and how to use custom video skins in Flash 8. In this tutorial, you will learn to edit the parameters of these video skins and customise your site.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to command sounds with invisible buttons. Add invisible buttons around objects that become interactive, and play sounds and songs.
A simple looping banner is an effective way to show scrolling buttons and add content to your site. Create a looping banner the easy way that is simple to edit.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a custom display that can be added to any monitor. This is a great effect to wow customers to your site or place as a banner. Simple to create. Only motion tweens and layers, no actionscript.
In this tutorial, you will use actionscript to give the mouse pointer a trailing Movie Clip. You will learn how to assign the mouse the Movie Clip and how to animate a simple pulsing square.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to animate a graphic on a guided path using the motion guide. You will also learn how to place your graphic or movieclip on the correct points of the motion guide.
In this video, Craig introduces you to a new feature of Flash CS3 called 9-slice scaling. This method of scaling an object allows you use guides that allow for smarter resizing of objects.
Create a frame by frame animation using the onion skin option. Easily see what you sketched in the last frame and keep your animation consistent.
Have you ever wanted to add password protection to your webiste? In this tutorial, you will learn how to add simple password protection using actionscript and the Input Text option. This is a simple way to add a little protection to your site and projects.
In this tutorial, trainer Craig Campbell will show you how to create a button that will cause your animations to play in reverse when clicked. It's like having your own rewind button for a Flash cartoon.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to mask an animated scrolling Movie Clip behind your text. You will also learn how to loop the Movie Clip by using the timeline correclty. This is a great effect for banners, splashes and websites.
In this tutorial, you will learn to use the Scrollpane component. You will also learn how to add content to the scrollpane by using movie clips and the Scrollpane parameters tab.
Scroll Text
In this tutorial, you will learn a very important lesson on building and using the scrolling text box. You will learn to assign a Scrollbar from the components list in Flash and how to wrap text within the box.
Learning to animate along a path can be fun. In this tutorial, you will learn how to animate along a path to get the effect of an animated solarsystem. You will knock them dead in science class.
Preview This video walks you through another text effect. In this one, you will learn how to animate a block of text so that it looks like it's being typed onto the stage as you watch.
In this tutorial you will learn to animate a custom text loop. This is a popular effect and after this tutorial you will feel comfortable adding to text and graphics.
Create a catchy animation with text. This tutorial with teach you how to add a great effect using the glow filter within Flash 8.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a professional effect using very simple commands. Learn to create this effect using keyframes instead of action script. You will also learn how to break apart text so that we can edit and add effects.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a looping text mask effect. This mask gives the effect of shining metal and is a great improvement to any banner or important text.
In this video, we open up Flash CS3 for the first time and take a look at the working environment, including the welcome screen, the new one-column toolbar, the panel sets, and the timeline.