Boost Your Skills: 20 Awesome Flash Tutorials
June 18th, 2010 Posted in Graphics, Tutorials, Web Design, Web Design for Beginners
This time we’ve decided to put together a good collection of tutorials on the Adobe Flash software found in the Creative Suite series. While sometimes underestimated or “forgotten”, this program can take your designs to a whole new level without too much knowledge of coding and programming. I’ve put together some tutorials for all skill levels to inspire you, learn you some new tricks and hopefully get you started making your own additions to websites and other designs.
Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash) is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to Web pages. Flash is frequently used for advertisements and games. More recently, it has been positioned as a tool for “Rich Internet Applications” (“RIAs”) (source: wikipedia.org)
If you’re interested in more in-depth info, you can continue reading over at Wikipedia by clicking here, or go check out Adobes own product site here.
Picture by Benito LeGrande
You can use the software to create interactive experiences, build web applications, embed video and more.
With the fresh release of the Creative Suite 5 earlier this spring, Flash is even better and more versatile than before.
Some features include:
- Creative Suite Integration
- print-quality typography via the new text engine
- XML based FLA sources
- code snippets panel
- action-script editing
- XFL support
- Object-based animation
and the list goes on.
But here, in this round-up we’re gonna have a look at some good tutorials for various skill-levels, so let’s get started!
Click the images to go to the tutorials and see what the end results will look like 
Easy/Beginner
Hypnotic Gear Rotation Tutorial
3D Tunnel effect
Loopy Loop Text Effect
Rotating Letter text effect
Line Text Banner
Drip down text effect
Flash “tooltips”
Blue Sky animation
Old TV (grain) effect
Zoom in – Zoom out Animation (with fading effect)
Fireworks
Picture animation
Video Panoramas
Shine Car photo animation
Intermediate/Advanced tutorials
A better way to build Flash banners
Paypal buttons with ActionScript 3.0
Image rotator in Flash (using XML and ActionScript 3.0)
Custom Color Picker
Comment Form with Flash, PHP, XML and MySQL
iPhone inspired Switch Checkbox
Those were our 20 picks for you this time. We hope they’ve helped you learn some new things related to Flash, along with awakening some new creativity. Thank you for reading!
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