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Flash Effects Tutorials - Color Flash Light - Learn how to create a color flash light.

Flash Effects Tutorials - Liquify Image Effect - An ultra-simple touch of action script can turn an otherwise-still image or even a whole swf into a liquefied, stretchable rubbery treat !... If you're anything like me, you just love imposing contortions onto perfectly innocent loaded images!

Flash Effects Tutorials - Blur Effect - An indepth tutorial explaining and demonstrating how that blur effect is achieved.

Flash Effects Tutorials - Steel Effect - In this Macromedia Flash tutorial I will show you how to use layer masking to create Steel Effect.

Flash Effects Tutorials - 3D Text With Shine - Here you can learn to make a flash animation with 3D metal text and shine over.

Flash Text Tutorials - Animated Text - Animate Text Falling into place with a fade in effect

Flash Effects Tutorials - Simple Masking - Masking is revealing a portion of your picture or graphic in the layer below. This tutorial will teach you the basics of masking in Flash MX 2004. The download .fla file is also included at the end of the tutorial.

Flash Text Tutorials - Shadowed text - Create a Photoshop style Drop Shadow in Flash MX

Flash Effects Tutorials - Glowing Effect - In this tutorial, you will learn how to work with rulers and guides, use oval tool to create effects for different parts of the image, adjust vector curves, use shape tween with radial gradient fills, create motion tween in combination with advanced color style for movie clips, use instance name and arrays to randomize the animation.

Flash Text Tutorials - Morphing Text - Create Morphing Text using Shape Tweens

Flash Effects Tutorials - Creating the the Shine Effect - Since we don't have too many tutorials on how to create some cool effects for animation, here's one that I've seen sites use. The effect look amazing when you use it on a website with lots of Photoshop graphics.

Flash Effects Tutorials - Drop Shadow Text Effect - Create Drop Shadow effects in Flash that doesn't rely on plug-ins

Flash Effects Tutorials - Film Grain Effect - A very cool defect I notice on older movies and films is the film grain effect caused by the aging of the actual film reels. While most would consider that to be a flaw, I take the converse of that view and think it is a really nifty effect.

Flash Text Tutorials - Text Warp - Warp your text using the shape tween function in Flash

Flash Effects Tutorials - Masking Effect - In this step-by-step tutorial, you will learn how to to work with layers, frames and keyframes, use radial gradient fill and alpha settings, use copy of the background and line tool to create precise mask, use guide layer in combination with mask layer.

Flash Effects Tutorials - Circular Ripple Effect- Learn how to create a beautiful circular ripple effect in Flash MX 2004. Download .fla file also included.

Flash Effects Tutorials - Flash Light Mask - In this tutorial you will learn how to create the Color Flash Light Effect for Flash MX.

Flash Effects Tutorials - Cool Masking Effect - In this tutorial, you will learn how to do a cool effect, with masking.

Flash Effects Tutorials - Logo Replication - This tutorial will show you how to replicate the logo of your choice.

Flash Effects Tutorials - Blurring In Flash - Seen it done before but wasn't sure how to do it yourself? This tutorial walks you through the very simple process of creating a blurred effect in Flash with the help of Photoshop.

Flash Effects Tutorials - Alpha Graphic Fade - An amazing image transparenzy effect.

Flash Effects Tutorials - Grassy Field - Learn how to create randomly duplicating, scrolling blades of grass.

Flash Effects Tutorials - Mouse Trailer - Learn how to create a mouse trailer using nothing but actionscript!

Flash Effects - Looping Background - Create a continuously looping background. This is great for backgrounds and cartoons.

Flash Effects Tutorials - Looping Background - Create a continuously looping background. This is great for backgrounds and cartoons.

Flash Effects Tutorials - 3D Text Rotation - Fireworks and Flash tutorial creating a great 3D text effect you can use for logos and web graphics.

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