Flash > Drawing and Basics

This Flash tutorial will teach you how to create a spinning text effect.

This Flash tutorial will show you how to create a basic navigation menu.

This Flash tutorial will teach you how to create a zoom out text effect.

This Flash tutorial will teach you how to create a blurred image effect. This effect is very simple and produces interesting results.

This flash tutorial will teach you have to create a mask text effect. The results give the effect of text being slowly revealed by the masked object. This effect is very useful and can be used to create lots of different mask effects.

This flash tutorial will demonstrate the use of mask layers. Mask layer reveal portions of the layer/layers below it. This effect is very simple but can be used to create lots of different mask effects.

This flash tutorial will teach you how to create a drop text effect. The result gives the effect of text falling from above. This tutorial is fairly complicated so be sure to read it a few times, before attempting.

We are going to see in this tutorial how you can give a realistic perspective effect to an object. I'm not going to lie to you: this is not very easy. But it is less hard than you could imagine. Even though it is not math-free, this tutorial will not get into very complex mathematic manipulations, but rather explain as simply as possible how it works. Then, when we feel comfortable about it, I will show you a few experiments I made with this, explaining step by step how I got there.

This flash tutorial will teach you how to create a drag and drop puzzle

In this tutorial I will show you how to create flash video player for your website using flash components.

In addition to the scale and rotation changes that can be applied to groups, symbols, bitmaps, and text as well as editable shapes, there are two additional transforms available only to editable shapes. Distort and Envelope are two modes available in the Free Transform tool options that enable you to transform the vectors of editable shapes to varying degrees. Distort transformations work on adjoining edges, tapering them down to vanishing points, similar to perspective. Envelope transformations...

how to apply a water effect to some text using the mask layer.

Learning to use the blending filters in Flash 8 pro by making a glassy orb inside a metal ring.

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.

Easing is an important part of Actionscripted(AS) motion. It adds a realistic feel by speeding up and slowing down an object depending on its position to its final destination. This tutorial will teach you the basics of easing by moving an object to where the mouse is (aka mouse trailing/following). This is probably the simplest form of easing.