Hot Adobe Flash How-Tos
How To: Code Flash objects to be able to spin, rotate and accelerate
This tutorial shows you first how to create an object using Adobe Flash CS3, and then you're shown how you can use ActionScript code to make them spin and rotate. You can even cause the spinning to speed up using the right code!
How To: Set up links on your website to external sites or files in Adobe Flash CS3
This tutorial demonstrates how you can use ActionScript and Adobe Flash CS3 to set up links on your website to allow users to download various files, such as making .pdfs, .docs or .mp3s available for download. You're also shown how to link to an external website, or set up an email-to link.
How To: Code a PayPal "Buy It Now" button in Flash ActionScript 3 for your website
Add an extra level of security to your website by creating your own dynamic 'Buy It Now' button for PayPal-using visitors to your website. Coding this button is very easy, and you can even animate it to draw more attention to your webstore.
How To: Rewind or reverse animations created using Flash CS3
This tutorial shows a beginner how to reverse their timeline animations, both by using Action Script code or by using the timeline functions. Set up your Adobe Flash CS3 animation timeline going in one direction, and then completely reverse it!
How To: Program the dynamic checkbox component using Action Script 3
The checkbox component is a useful addition to websites in a myriad of ways, which will allow your users to add or remove chosen items from a particular list. This tutorial shows you how to create a dynamic checkbox list and add it to your website.
How To: Utilize the color picker component in Adobe Flash CS3
The color picker component in Adobe Flash Creative Suite 3 will let visitors to your website choose their own color from a pre-selected palette and apply it to your specially indicated dynamic objects. Useful for paper-doll programs or other similar applications!
How To: Work with the DataGrid component of Flash ActionScript 3 when rendering it
For people who want to make a more dynamic and user-friendly website, this tutorial demonstrates how you can use Action Script 3 in Adobe Flash to work with the DataGrid component function, especially when you want to render it dynamically.
How To: Code a drop down menu for your website in Adobe Flash with ComboBox
The ComboBox component in Adobe Flash CS4 allows you to create drop-down menus, which you can incorporate into your own website in any number of dynamic ways, especially for those running their own e-store. This tutorial shows you how to set up your own ComboBox and add it to your website.
How To: Scroll custom movie clips on your website using Adobe Flash CS3
Save space on your page by adding a scroll bar! This tutorial teaches you two separate techniques: first, how to create custom movie clips or similar content for your webpage; and then how to incorporate a scrolling list into that particular element of your website.
How To: Create a numeric stepper component for your website in Adobe Flash CS3
A numeric stepper component is one which you can add to your website to allow users to select numbers or from a list of avaiable items - useful, for instance, if you wanted a webstore which allowed for a quantity function. This Adobe Flash CS3 tutorial shows you how to create and use a numeric stepper component.
How To: Utilize radio buttons to create tests, quizzes and forms in Adobe Flash CS3
The quiz - a popular and pervasive form of content for websites. They can be just for fun, or to help you collect demographic data on visitors to your website. This tutorial shows you how to use radio buttons to write quizzes, tests and other similar forms in Adobe Flash CS3.
How To: Code a real-time chat application using Adobe Flash CS3
Add a chat program to your website and allow the logged in users to talk to each other! You can write this program using Adobe Flash CS3, PHP and MySQL. This tutorial shows you how to write your own Flash chat program incorporating all three systems.
How To: Control two different movie clip timelines using the same buttons
This Adobe Flash CS4 tutorial shows you how to pull off the complex technique of having two different movie clip timelines able to be affected by the same buttons. This becomes useful if you want to animate your movie clip index.
How To: Create a spinning square animation in Adobe Flash CS4
Updated from the old CS3 tutorial! This video demonstrates how you can set up a simple spin animation using the most recent version of Adobe Flash, Creative Suite 4. Start with a simple square animation, and then make it spin!
How To: Create buttons to navigate your project in Adobe Flash CS4
Creating buttons in Flash CS4 is a similar process to what you used in Flash CS3. Using a more updated version of Adobe Flash, this tutorial demonstrates how can create your own Flash buttons and incorporate them into your animations and projects.
How To: Create a graphic symbol using Adobe Flash CS4
This Adobe Flash CS4 tutorial shows you how to create a graphic symbol. Creating a graphic symbol lets you reuse the image in other projects, and set up a few other interactive and dynamic functions when you incorporate graphic symbols into your animations.
How To: Turn an animation into a symbol so you can reuse it in Adobe Flash CS4
This tutorial shows you how you can turn a single animation (like a bouncing ball) into a symbol. Once it is a symbol, you'll be able to reuse the animation in other projects and add it to other movies or animations you make using Adobe Flash CS4.
How To: Load an external image into your Flash CS4 animations
This tutorial shows you how to import an external image into your Adobe Flash CS4 animation project using Action Script. Choose any image you like and incorporate it into your current project using the steps outlined in this tutorial.
How To: Add items to your command menu in Adobe Flash CS4
The CS4 version of Adobe Flash has altered the appearance and layout of your screen. If you draw often in Flash, this tutorial shows you how find and use the Smooth and Straighten functions efficiently and add them to a menu using the history and saving as a command.
How To: Add website links to your Adobe Flash projects using Action Script
Using Action Script, you can turn an image into a link to a website within your animation or movie clip. This tutorial demonstrates how you make invisible buttons and attach them to your chosen images in order to turn them into links.
How To: Add interactivity to your Adobe Flash CS3 animations using Tweener
Add a rollover and rollout effect your movie clips created in Adobe Flash CS3. This tutorial shows you the process to add in an extra level of interactivity to your projects created using Flash. Achieve this effect by using the Tweener Class.
How To: Make duplicates of movie clips in Adobe Flash CS3 using For Loops
This tutorial demonstrates how you can use the For Loops function in the Adobe Flash CS3 program in order to create duplicates of movie clips you have placed in your library. You're also shown how to use Action Script to add and create child clips.
How To: Execute menu transitions in your Adobe Flash CS3 animations
Transition between different screens in Adobe Flash CS3 animations. Using simple shapes, this tutorial shows you the techniques you can use to set up transitions by using labelled buttons, layers, the timeline and motion tweens for your next Adobe Flash animation project.
How To: Navigate your timeline and use buttons for Adobe Flash CS3 projects
Make buttons which can interact with the timeline of your Adobe Flash animation. This tutorial shows you how to use the goto and navigation functions (like play, pause or rewind) that you can attach buttons to. Add more user functionality to your Adobe Flash CS3 animations!
How To: Make a spinning square animation in Adobe Flash CS3
This is a very basic tutorial which shows you how to set up a square, convert it to a movie script, and then set up an animation and see your square spin. A simple clip, but you can apply it to many different objects, not just squares!
How To: Add sounds and sound effects to your project in Adobe CS3
Sounds and sound effects are important to add to any animation project in Adobe Flash CS3. This tutorial shows you how to add sounds and sound effects to your animation library or your project's timeline. You can also use Flash to discover the properties of your chosen sound file.
How To: Make your buttons and other basic shapes in Adobe Flash CS3 shiny
Add shine to your buttons and other basic shapes when you're animating in Adobe Flash CS3! Shiny buttons can add more depth to your project and give it more of a professional appearance. This tutorial shows you how to make shiny buttons for your next Flash animation.
How To: Add basic actions to your control your timeline and buttons in Adobe Flash CS3
Actions allow you to control your movie timeline and buttons in various ways. This tutorial starts with a basic image and shows you how to utilize the different actions available to you when creating an animation in Adobe Flash CS3.
How To: Animate and alter images in Adobe Flash CS3
This tutorial goes over the various methods and techiques you can use to alter images using Adobe Flash CS3, such as extending the edges, trace bitmapping, patterning your images or shapes, and even set your bitmap as it's own fill color.
How To: Add a masking feature to your animations in Adobe Flash CS3
A masking animation is a small animation which reveals the image behind it, which can be used to call attention to an image. This tutorial shows you how to use the masking technique in Adobe Flash CS3 for your own projects and websites.
How To: Create a preloader in Adobe Flash CS3
After you have your image or clip, you can then set up a preloader using Adobe Flash CS3 - a loading bar that lets the watchers of your clip see it loading on their screen. This tutorial shows you how to set up both the clip and preloader for your next project.
How To: Create a sliding transition without motion tools in Adobe Flash CS3
Set up a series of shifting panels or a slideshow in Adobe Flash CS3. This technique can be added to a website, where a user can click on an array of thumbnail images to cause your panels to transition. This technique shows you how to create this animation without using motion tools.
How To: Adapt your Flash content to fit multiple screens
Flash can play on a laptop screen, a mobile device or even a wide-screen HD televsion. A Flash developer needs to make sure that, whatever your video is, you have coded it so that it can still play on any size screen without losing any content.
How To: Add animation, audio and video content to your Flash Catalyst project
Expand the depth and complexity of your Flash Catalyst project by adding animations (.swf files), videos (.flv files) or music (.mp3 files). This tutorial shows you the easiest way to add extra content to your project depending on the file type.
How To: Create a simple flash animation using Creative Suite 4 Professional
Always make sure what you want to animate is on its own layer. And always make sure that you indicate that your animation is a symbol. Observing those two rules will always ensure easy and workable animations when using Flash to create animations in CS4.
How To: Add depth to an animation in Adobe Flash Professional CS5
This clip presents a guide to adding the final, finishing touches to an animation created within Adobe Flash Professional CS5. Whether you're new to Adobe Flash or merely unfamiliar with Flash Professional CS5, you're sure to benefit from this free video software tutorial from Lynda. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, take a look.
How To: Add bones to a character in Adobe Flash Professional CS5
Need some help figuring out how to create bones for character rigging within Adobe Flash Professional CS5? It's simple. And this video presents a complete walkthrough of the process. Whether you're new to Adobe Flash or merely unfamiliar with Flash Professional CS5, you're sure to benefit from this free video software tutorial from Lynda. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, take a look.
How To: Create an animation within an animation in Adobe Flash Professional CS5
In this clip, you'll learn how to insert an animation with its own independently-controllable timeline within a second, larger frame animation. Whether you're new to Adobe Flash or merely unfamiliar with Flash Professional CS5, you're sure to benefit from this free video software tutorial from Lynda. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started using this great trick yourself, take a look.
How To: Create the illusion of 3D shapes in Flash
Want to create 3D shapes in flash easily, without doing any real 3D modeling work? Watch this video and learn a few basics. An Adobe Flash tutorial video that is essentially divided into three sections. The 1st section teaches how to create a rounded filled circle with spherical effect and depth. The second part teaches the same thing with rectangular objects while the third teaches how to create a cylindrical effect using a rectangle. The obvious uses of these methods is to create your own 3...
How To: Password protect a portion of a timeline in Flash
Need to protect a section of your overall flash content (say movie or slideshow) from unauthorized access, learn how to do so in this video.