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Flash Tutorials

Beginners

Movie Clips: a symbol with it's own timeline that can move seperate from your main animation

Understanding Scenes: a basic building block for creating animations

Motion Guides make an object move along a path

Motion Tween and Shape Tween

Masking Tutorial learn how to "see through" one image to the image underneath

Special Effects

Working with gradients and fills learn how to work with the mixer and fill panels to create lens flare effects

Lighting Effects: Ray of Light Text Effect at FlashKit.com (from the Web site Ray of Light)

Real-Time Magnifying Lens: create a draggable magnifying lens that enlarges whatever is underneath

Water-Ripple Effect: This tutorial describes how to create a water ripple effect over an image.

Flashlight Effect: Effect that simulates shining a flashlight on your text.

Masked Text: learn to use a mask to see through text to the image underneath

Making Text Glint: another simple text effect

ActionScript

Beginner ActionScript Tutorial: understanding paths

Drag and Drop Tutorial: learn how to drag and drop an object

Add Get URL to a button: click on a Flash button and have it open another Web page

Quick and Easy Preloader

Preloading multiple loaded movies

Using With action instead of Tell target for Flash 5: press a button and make an animation play. See also with vs. tell target forum discussion at Were-Here

Create a Flash Detection script in Dreamweaver

Toggle Music On and Off click a button to turn the sound off or on

Collections

Flash Planet a nice collection of tutorials and FLA files for download organized by skill level

Flash Kit Tutorials tutorials organized around categories: 3D, animation, special effects, text effects, actionscripting

Texas Flashers: large collection of tutorials that take you through many tutorials such as simple masking, creating a mouse trail, simple Go To actions and creating buttons

Flash Zone Tutorials