Adobe Flash Tutorials

Although usability evangelists often consider Flash to be a usability nightmare, used properly, Flash can provide users with a rich and interactive interface which would be impossible otherwise. Today Flash is the de-facto standard for interactive elements on the Web as most users install Flash plug-in by default. And in fact, there are many paths creative designers can take to generate a more interactive and user-friendly interface.

Searching for ‘flash tutorials’ via Google & Co. won’t provide you with the results you expect. Not that you won’t find any relevant results, on the contrary — you will be directed to a large number of Flash repositories which offer everything: sometimes useful, but mostly not. Besides, browsing through these repositories isn’t that much fun — as you sometimes need to figure out whether a link you see is a hidden AdSense-block or the actual tutorial. And it’s really hard to find something “refreshing” and new simply using some standard keywords.

This article provides professional Flash tutorials which can enrich your design skills and improve the quality of your works. It is most interesting and useful tutorials. Most sources can serve as the entry point for further tutorials.

Animation and Effects

Flash Tutorial Create Water Wave Effect Animation Using Masking Tween
We’re going to make a flash animation water wave effect and we going to move step by step to give you a clean explanation about how to make a water wave effect in flash using masking technique.

Car Animation
This lesson will teach you how to create on a simple way very attractive animation using a picture of Bmw 3 series.

Picture Animation
In this detailed lesson you will see how to create on a simple way picture animation using the Brush Tool and mask.

High-tech city animation
This detailed lesson made for Flash 8 will teach you how to create a really cool and advanced light city animation… More tutorials from this site.

Animate a Logo in Flash
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.

Misty River
Read this tutorial and see how to create misty river animation. You will also learn how to use flash filters (Blur, Bevel and Drop shadow filter) and more.

Hypnotic Gear Rotation
I’m not sure what inspired me to do this crazy gear rotating animation, but for some reason I just started making a simple gear in flash, then what does a gear do? well it rotates!

Execute Lightbox Scripts From Flash: Part Deux
Since the first thread showing you how to execute Lightbox scripts from Flash was such a big hit, I decided to write another showing you how to gain even more functionality in this regard. Tonight I will be showing you how to initiate a Lightbox containing a Flash movie from a Flash movie, and how to initiate Lightbox groups containing images as well as Flash movies.

Simple Shape Animation
In this tutorial you will see how to transform image in many shapes. To create this tutorial, you don’t have to use action script. Only one thing that you need is flash. More tutorials from this source.