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Flash Tutorials - Digital Timer - Learn how to create a digital using Flash's getTimer() function.

Flash Tutorials - Introduction to Flash - What is Flash? Advantages of Flash compared to animated images and Java Applets.

Flash Tutorials - Full Screen Flash Page - In this tutorial we'll be using Flash MX 2004 as well as a bit of CSS to get rid of the default margin value.

Flash Tutorials - Customized Cursor in Flash MX - Learn how to create a customized cursor in Flash MX 2004. A very easy step-by-step tutorial.

Flash Tutorials - Flash in HTML - How to embed a Flash movie into an HTML page.

Flash Tutorials - Removing Flash Movie Protection - For an attentive study of the work of others, an analysis of their design decisions, understanding one or another moment when Flash technology was chosen in their designs, it can be quite helpful to download what you find an interesting Flash clip in an editor and scrutinize it in frame by frame mode. I want to warn you from the get go that this does not decompile an SWF file in initial FLA format, but nevertheless it gives sufficient food for thought while studying great work.

Flash Tutorials - Creating Sound Control - Sound Control Tutorial - This tutorial requires a basic knowledge of Flash. You must know how to create buttons, and work with Frames and Layers.

Flash Tutorials - Fill Techniques - Since there are about five major fill methods, this tutorial will spend a short period of time covering each method.

Flash Tutorials - Video in Flash MX 2004 - Flash MX 2004 includes basic video features that can aid you in not only importing video files for display in Flash, but you can also perform some simple editing tasks also. This tutorial will help you to learn more about Flash and video.

Flash Tutorials - Flash Sound - How to deal with sound files in Flash.

Flash Tutorials - Create Square Ends - Have you ever noticed Flash doesn't naturally create Square Ends when you draw lines? Here's a workaround.

Flash Tutorials - Creating Masks - What is masking? Masking is a simple way to reveal parts of a layer below. This tutorial will take you through many types of masking from static masking where a image is shown through a non moving mask, animated masks where the mask moves to reveal bits of the image, and a special blurred edge mask.

Flash Tutorials - Custom Shortcuts in Flash 5 - Create your own custom shortcuts for frequent tasks in Flash.

Flash Tutorials - Recommendations for the Optimization - Some basic notes on optimizing your .fla files.

Flash Tutorials - Flash MX 2004 Layers and Animation - Layers and Animation in Flash MX. Clear and easy to use, step-by-step guide for flash beginners.

Flash Tutorials - Timeline/Drawing Preferences - Miss the old Flash 4 Drawing/Selecting? Flash 5 lets you choose which way you like.

Flash Tutorials - Custom Cursor - This tutorial will teach you how to create a custom cursor for your flash movie. The .fla download file is included at the end of the tutorial.

Flash Tutorials - Scripted Motion Tweens - Penner Tweens, created by Robert Penner, use built-in Flash MX 2004 classes to script tweens. This is the touch of class that adds to any flash application / navigation / presentation. To set it up, you define an ease type, then apply the ease type to a Tween object.

Flash Tutorials - Add and Control Music - Simple step-by-step tutorial. You may learn how to add sound to flash movie and turn it on and off using buttons.

Flash Tutorials - Optimization of FLA files Overview - A brief introduction into optimising your fla files for streaming and use on the web.

Flash Tutorials - Creating buttons in Flash MX - Tutorial for starting Flash artists. This is a detailed walkthrough that will guide you through the process of creating and adding actions to a button.

Flash Tutorials - Circle Design - In this tutorial, you will learn how to align instances to the circle path using Movie Clip registration point. Sometimes, to create a nice preloader or an animated logo we need the circle with the custom outlines. Macromedia Flash allows us to use built-in stroke type in the custom stroke style dialog.

Flash Tutorials - FLA Optimization - Importing Sounds and Images - Learn some tips and techniques for optimal use of sounds and images in Flash.

Flash Tutorials - Timeline Motion Tween - Learn how to create a simple animation using motion tween in Flash. Soon you'll be on your way to creating beautiful animations using this simple concept.

Flash Tutorials - Coloring in Flash - An in-depth lesson on coloring inked drawings in Flash (the fast and easy way!).

Flash Tutorials - Solving Javascript Conflict - Sometimes if you use flash and javascript or layers on the same page, you will have some problem with your layers or javascript - they will go behind your flash. This tutorial will solve that problem.

Flash Tutorials - Fit Flash Movie to Browser - With a few simple settings you can make your movie files fit perfectly at all window sizes.

Flash Tutorials - Image Maps - Create image maps around images like you can with html.

Flash Tutorials - Transparent Flash Movies - Add a few tags or play with a few menus to make your Flash animation transparent.