iSpring Free: A PowerPoint to Flash converter for Windows

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PPT’s are files which only run on the Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation software. Have you ever wanted to convert your PPTs into a global Web-Playable format that is ‘SWF’? iSpring can do the task for you. iSpring is a PowerPoint to Flash converter which has a lot of features.     more...

Playing Sound on a webpage using Javascript and Flash Player

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There are several ways to play sound in a web page. Why you need sound in a web page. The most common type of feedback is sound. The computer clicks when you select things, beeps when there are errors, and makes other noises to alert you to situations. But Web pages don’t usually have this type of feedback.
As I said above that there are several ways to play sound in web page. But the most common problem is the “Browser specific solutions”. Some will run on Internet explorer, while others will run on Mozilla Firefox and some on Google Chrome.  more...

Benefits and drawbacks of Flash web design

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Flash is a powerful tool that adds a fillip to website design, if used judiciously.

But before you use it, consider the Whys and Why Nots of Flash web design.

Pros

1. Interactive movies, animation and menus are possible
2. Flash animation is easy to create and easy to view
3. Flash is independent of browsers and operating systems.  It can be viewed correctly by anyone who has the Flash plug-in.  more...

Seven-Segment Display in Flash (AS3)

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Seven-segment displays are widely used in electronic and mechanical devices to display simple information such as the time (a digital clock) or a price (a local gas station's price per gallon). Advantages include ease of implementation, updating, and the most important: cost. With only 7 segments, such as a LED, you can display 10 different numerals (ie 0-9).
In the software design world, seven-segment displays can be useful because they are a fixed width, people recognize them and they have an interesting look. In this tutorial I will give explain the math behind a seven-segment display how to implement them in Flash ActionScript 3 (AS3).  more...

Realistic Rippling Water Animation in Flash

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In this tutorial you will learn how to create a realistic water rippling effect on a static image using masking in Flash.
Tutorial Details
Program: CS4
Difficulty: All
Estimated Completion Time: 30 mn  more...

HTML5 vs ActionScript 3 in Flash

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HTML5 introduces an element called a "canvas" on which we can use JavaScript to draw. This offers a quick and easy approach to drawing dynamic content. This article will compare this relatively new (and not yet cross-browser compatible) option for drawing to Adobe Flash's ActionScript 3. JavaScript and ActionScript have common roots as they are both dialects of ECMAScript.
For this article we are going to draw something with a little complexity to better compare the two languages. I have chosen a warning icon I made in Photoshop.  more...

Creating a Rotating 3D Planet in Flash

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In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a realistic 3D earth rotating effect using masking effect in Flash.
Tutorial Details
Program: Flash CS5
Difficulty: All
Estimated Completion Time: 40 min  more...

Outline Animation Effect in Flash

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In this tutorial, you will learn how to create an outline animation effect for an image and then the image filling the outline using advance masking effects.
Tutorial Details
Program: Flash CS5
Difficulty: All
Estimated Completion Time: 40 hr  more...

Exciting Facebook Flash CMS Templates

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Get a Flash website within your Facebook page!
Get ready for excitement! Present yourself with flair on Facebook, your favorite social networking site.  Get a full-fledged, eye-catching, arresting Flash website delivered within your Facebook page – with an easy-to-use Facebook Flash CMS Template.   The good news is – you don’t need professional web designing skills to customize your template, with all its rich Flash animation and eye-appeal.  These templates have the awesome feature-rich MotoCMS built into them.  MotoCMS is an advanced Flash CMS – the most user-friendly and efficient Flash content management system of them all. Create amazing interactive, rich-media experiences for your users  more...

Flash : Creating Symbols and Instances

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A symbol is a reusable object, and an instance is an occurrence of a symbol on the Stage. Repeatedly using instances does not increase the file size and is a good part of a strategy for keeping a document file size small. Symbols also simplify editing a document; when you edit a symbol, all instances of the symbol update to reflect the edits. Another benefit of symbols is that they allow you to create sophisticated interactivity.

Set up your workspace

First, you'll open the start file for the lesson and set up your workspace to use an optimal layout for taking lessons.  more...

Flash : Optimizing Masking Animations

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In the following tutorial you'll learn how to optimize animations when masking pictures using Flash. As your expertise of Flash increases you will realize that all complicated animations are built up from many basic carefully created animations that work together to create a quality effect.
This tutorial helps to learn some Flash optimization techniques when using photos. Here we have used 2 different masking effects.

• Import more than one image to the library, set canvas size according to the image dimension.  more...

Gorgeous Page Roll Image Transition Effect in Flash

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In this tutorial you will learn how to create a gorgeous page roll image transition effect  using masking in Adobe Flash. Follow the steps...
Open a  new flash document with action script 2.0.

Step 1: Setting Up Document Properties
Now Select Modify from the menu bar and select Document or You directly can press ctrl + J to open the document properties.  more...

Simple Flash Preloader using basic actionscript

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Flash preloaders is very useful to show the visitors that the movie is still loading. This should helps them realize that there is something on the page which is loading even though they cannot see it. It also keeps your visitor amused for a short time and stops them closing the page or quickly moving on to the next website.Once you understand the ...  more...

Flash : Photo Masking Tutorial

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In this Flash tutorial you are going to learn how to create great looking photo masking effects. We will be covering: Simple Photo Masking, Motion Photo Masking and Smooth Fade Photo Masking.
Please carry out the following steps in Flash to create the photo masking effects.

Simple Photo Masking

1. Import (Ctrl + R) any color photo to be masked and its black & white version onto the stage.
2. Now add a new Layer and move the Color picture into it. Make sure both pictures are perfectly on top of each other.  more...

Using Layout Tools : Flash Tutorial

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Flash Basic 8 and Flash Professional 8 offer a variety of ways to place objects on the Stage. This tutorial teaches you how to use the layout tools in Flash to create a user interface.
First, you'll open the start file for the lesson and set up your workspace to use an optimal layout for taking lessons.
To open your start file, in Flash select File > Open and navigate to the file:

• In Windows, browse to boot drive\Program Files\Macromedia\Flash 8\Samples and Tutorials\Tutorial Assets\Basic Tasks\ Use Layout Tools and double-click layout_tools_start.fla.  more...

Creating Flash Effects

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Create cool Flash effects using simple Flash techniques

In the following Flash tutorials you'll learn how to create cool flash effects using simple techniques like tweening, masking, etc. As your expertise of Flash increases you will realize that all complicated animations are built up from many basic carefully created animations that work together to create a quality effect.  more...

How to upload and embed flash SWF file into Blogger

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The Blogger page gets more interesting and more appealing when you embed flash SWF files into a Blogger post. This tutorial will show you how to upload SWF file flash and embed flash files into Blogger so as to attract more visitors and boost your traffics in a short time. It would be a light job for beginners with Aneesoft Flash Gallery Classic.
What you'll need:
1. Photos for making flash photo gallery
2. Aneesoft Flash Gallery Classic (Free for download)
3. Fileave account
4. Blogger account   more...

Flash Actionscript Button Tutorial

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Learn how to create a Flash actionscript button using actionscript controlled tweening and Movieclips in Flash. This Flash button tutorial uses concepts of Movieclips and Tweened Animations.

Create a Flash ActionScript Button

Steps to create this actionscript button effect (can be used for website links):

• Open the new flash document.
• Create a button and name this instance as Button then go to symbol-editing mode.  more...

Flash Sound Button Tutorial

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While working with Flash buttons you will find it sometimes necessary to use sound files in them. You must have read our tutorial on creating advanced Flash buttons. In this tutorial you'll learn how to make yet another advanced button by including sound in a button's timeline.

Follow the steps given here to create a flash button with sound:   more...

Flash Tutorial : Creating Accessible Flash Content

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With knowledge of a few design techniques and accessibility features in Flash Basic 8 and Flash Professional 8, you can create Flash content that is accessible to all users, including those with disabilities.
This lesson demonstrates how to create an accessible document, designed for use with screen readers (which read web content aloud for visually impaired users) and other assistive technologies.
First, you'll open the start file for the lesson and set up your workspace to use an optimal layout for taking lessons.
To open your start file, in Flash select File > Open and navigate to the file.  more...