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As a service to web viewers, we have posted links to 108 free, high-content video FLASH tutorials from one of the best sources on the web. And they are all FREE!
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Videos are great at getting you up to speed on a particular topic very quickly. We've read our fair share of 1000 page technical books, and many of them are great, but sometimes you just need to see someone performing a task and listen to their explanation. As the old adage goes, "a picture is worth a thousand words." As visual and audio learners, videos help us quickly understand 80% of what we need to know to get started, and after we have a fundamental grasp on a given technology, we can find the last 20% in the online help, in books or on the discussion forums.
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Intro To Flash 8 Preview 1from: LearnFlash.comOur new "Introduction to Flash 8" video series will be released soon, and in this excerpt from the series, you'll learn all about using and customizing panels and panel sets in Flash. |
Intro To Flash 8 Preview 2from: LearnFlash.comOur new "Introduction to Flash 8" video series will be released soon, and in this excerpt from the series, you'll learn all about using and customizing panels and panel sets in Flash.
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Intro To Flash 8 Preview 3from: LearnFlash.comToday'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. |
Intro To Flash 8 Preview 4from: LearnFlash.comToday'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. |
Text Gradient Fillsfrom: LearnFlash.comUnfortunately, 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. |
Problems with Rotating Animationsfrom: LearnFlash.comCreating 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. |
Illustration Optimizationfrom: LearnFlash.comMany 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. |
Creating and Animating Cloudsfrom: LearnFlash.comOne 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. |
JavaScript Popup Windowsfrom: LearnFlash.comUnfortunately, 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. |
Conditionals and Toggle Switchesfrom: LearnFlash.comA 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. |
Common Mistakes with Actions and Buttonsfrom: LearnFlash.comThere 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. |
ComboBox Interactivityfrom: LearnFlash.comIn Flash, the ComboBox component is basically nothing more than your basic dropdown list that you see in forms on the Internet. In this video, you'll learn how to use this component to communicate with another movie clip on the stage. |
Animation Setupfrom: LearnFlash.comAnimation can be a tricky process if you've never done it before, but Flash makes it possible to reuse pieces of your animation so you don't have to continually redraw everything. In this tutorial, you'll learn some basics for drawing and preparing your drawings for animation in Flash. |
Basic Preloaderfrom: LearnFlash.comThis tutorial is an excerpt for an upcoming training series, to be released by LearnFlash.com on March 31. In this excerpt, you'll learn how to create a simple preloader for your Flash website. |
Simple Page Transitionsfrom: LearnFlash.comThis tutorial is an excerpt for an upcoming training series, to be released by LearnFlash.com on March 31. In this excerpt, you'll learn how to create simple animated transitions for your Flash website. |
Loading Pictures Dynamicallyfrom: LearnFlash.comThe 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. |
Digital Clockfrom: LearnFlash.comIt'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. |
Disabling Buttonsfrom: LearnFlash.comIf 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. |
Random Jumpingfrom: LearnFlash.comPredictability is way overrated. Web users all over the world expect a button to stand still when they click on it. So why not take a little of that predictability away from them? In this video, you'll learn how to generate random numbers in Flash and then use those numbers to create an elusive button or graphic that jumps to a random position on the stage every time your user hovers his mouse cursor over it. |
Magic Cursorfrom: LearnFlash.comIf you want to learn to make your Flash websites truly interactive, then it's very important that you understand how to alter the properties of your objects dynamically. In this video, LearnFlash.com trainer Craig Campbell will show you how to alter the "alpha" property, or the transparency, of an object in Actionscript so that the object fades in and out as you move your mouse cursor left and right across the stage. |
Button Basicsfrom: LearnFlash.comCreating buttons in Flash may seem fairly straightforward--and it is--but there are a few things that many Flash novices don't realize about making their buttons interactive. For instance, did you know that there are two places where you can add your actionscript for your button? Watch this video to find out more. |
Creating Movie Clip Buttonsfrom: LearnFlash.comIn this tutorial, you'll learn how to create animated buttons by storing your button as a movie clip symbol instead of a button symbol. Movie clip symbols will give you much more flexibility. |
Animating with ActionScriptfrom: LearnFlash.comIn this tutorial, you'll learn how to create a simple animation using ActionScript instead of motion tweens. |
Falling Text Effectfrom: LearnFlash.comIn this video, you'll learn how to create a really sharp animation effect by animating the letters of a block of text onto the stage separately. |
