Flash

In this Flash tutorial you will see how to make some text blur out then going crazy shaking.

In this flash tutorial you will learn how to make a very useful alpha tween effect controlled by flash actionscripting

In this tutorial you will see how to assign keyboard key values to move an object around using actionscript.

Apply a simple water ripple effect to any object in Flash.

In this Flash tutorial you will see how to make a simple gear rotation effect in just a few easy steps.

If you want to be a programmer or just write some simple lines of code, you will need to know some math and how to use it. Here you will see how to work with mathematics in Flash actionscript.

In this Flash tutorial you will see how to make an object follow your mouse cursor, this is a great feature for games, animations or just for fun.

Everything in Flash happens based on events. These events can be either user initiated such as with the onMouseDown event or the pressing of a button, or can come as a result of the the passing of frames within the Flash timeline. When taking advantage of the latter, one often uses the onEnterFrame event, allowing an action or a series of actions to occur every frame. With these kinds of actions, animations can be coded to play synchronous with the passing of time along the Flash timeline. Howe...

With web and multimedia design there is the opportunity to add a little fun and creativity to your logo by creating a simple animation effect. Obviously this process isn’t limited to just your logo; animating an element can help draw attention to a particular object or area of a webpage or digital presentation.

An introduction to the basic concept of applying a mask, performing a test render and creating a cut out in Fluid Mask, a Photoshop plug-in.

As a bit of a treat, I'm going to show you how to make particle "explosions" that will come in handy in games, visulisations or other projects.

The new Flash 8 filters such as blur, drop shadow, and bevel are extremely easy to apply directly on objects at authoring time, but you may want to generate these effects using ActionScript to have more dynamic control over them. Generating these filters through ActionScript is not as straightforward as you might think it is, this tutorial will hopefully teach you how to do that easily. This tutorial is to be followed in Flash 8 and the created SWF files will have to be viewed on Flash 8 Player ...

Looking at the boards and at feedback from previous tutorials, I've spotted what I believe to be the most common Actionscript errors. These vary from basic to advanced; even expert coders may learn a thing or two. Before looking at these errors, I present a brief review of Flash's debugging tools.

Flash supports a shiny class called Tween which allows for some quick and cool Robert Penner style movie clip easing.

FileReference API provides methods using which one can download or upload files from/to a server. Each FileReference object maps to a single file which can be uploaded or downloaded from/to a server. You can get the following properties of a file using the FileReference API.