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SWiSH TUTORIALS & HOW TO USE & ANIMATE IN SWiSH

SWiSH Tutorials - 3-State Buttons using Images - How to create three-state buttons from images

SWiSH Tutorials - 3-State Buttons using Text - Creating simple buttons from text

GRAPHIC DESIGNERS FROM OUR GRAPHIC DESIGN COMMUNITY

SWiSH Tutorials - 3D Globe - With a bit of skill and a lot of imagination, you can create stunning visuals that any designer would be proud of.

SWiSH Tutorials - Call Quicktime Movie - Call Quicktime Movie

SWiSH Tutorials - Changing Alignment / Rotation Point - How to change the anchor point for objects

SWiSH Tutorials - Adding Animated GIF Files to SWiSH - How to add animated gifs into swish

SWiSH Tutorials - Adding the Drag and Swap Files (*files) - How to use the drag and swap plugin

SWiSH Tutorials - Adding SWiSH To Your Emails - Create interesting emails and extend your presence on the internet by inserting your SWiSH movies into your emails.

SWiSH Tutorials - Applying and Transforming Fills - Adding fills, resizing fills, rotating fills

SWiSH Tutorials - Animated Drawing of a Box - Draw a box on the screen - uses anchor points

SWiSH Tutorials - Basic Rollover Buttons (using sprites) - Creating buttons with sprites

SWiSH Tutorials - Blurred Text and Drop Shadows - An all swish way to create dropshadows and blurred text

SWiSH Tutorials - A Basic Swish Preloader - Creating a very basic preloader in Swish

SWiSH Tutorials - A Basic Masking Effect - To help you understand what a mask is and what it can be used for

SWiSH Tutorials - A Basic On/Off Button for Music Loops - A very simple way to create an on/off button for background audio

SWiSH Tutorials - Combine Two Effects - How to combine two effects into one - using sprites

SWiSH Tutorials - Complex Animations - A very powerful feature in SWiSH is the nested timelines, allowing you to create 'animations within animations'.

SWiSH Tutorials - Cutouts - Cutting one shape out of another

SWiSH Tutorials - Display Txt in Status Bar Within SWiSH - This tutorial will explain how you can display text in the status bar on a roll over and have the text dissapear on roll out.

SWiSH Tutorials - Drawing Fruits with Shapes - This tutorial contains full guide for making fruits in swishmax. You can use these fruits in combine design but the major advantage of this tutorial is that you can use these fruits in different ways, in different designs. Because everything is separate. I will teach you everything one by

SWiSH Tutorials - Drawing - The new drawing tools in SWiSH 2.0 can easily create sophisticated images. one.

SWiSH Tutorials - Easy Centered Pop-Up Windows - With easy-to-use code generator

SWiSH Tutorials - Exploded light - In this tut you will be able to draw beautiful image .an exploded light

SWiSH Tutorials - Exploding images ! - You have to experiment with that tutorial and you will be able to make stunning effects !

SWiSH Tutorials - Eyes & Eyelashes - In this tutorial you will learn the trick of drawing eyes & eyelashes.

SWiSH Tutorials - Faking 3D - Use and abuse SWiSH's built in effects to create remarkable pseudo-3D animations.

SWiSH Tutorials - Follower: Tell Target Action - Create interactivity with the visitors and make sure they never forget they are viewing a SWiSH movie, and not just another boring website!

SWiSH Tutorials - Follower: Transform Action - Proving there's usually more than one way to do things in SWiSH, this tutorial will create another mouse-follower, this time using the 'Transform' action.

SWiSH Tutorials - How to Make A Button - How to Make a Button

SWiSH Tutorials - How to Create Your Animated Avatar - Want to create a simple animated avatar in less than a minute?

SWiSH Tutorials - Human Lips. - This tutorial contains the tips and the swi file of vector human lips. Applying these tricks, you can make realistic and easy vector lips. It has 3 steps.

SWiSH Tutorials - Human Face Cuts - In this tutorial you will learn a basic and easy trick for drawing human faces. There are 3 points to be followed. Below some face examples are provided that I made for learning and give an idea to be implemended on any human face design.

SWiSH Tutorials - How to Reshape a Square - How reshape a square? for a circle is more easy..because there are many points to drag

SWiSH Tutorials - How to Make a Simple Flower - This tutorial can be useful for the beginners that know the basic use of bezier..

SWiSH Tutorials - Human Eyebrow., Easy 3 steps - In this tutorial you will learn the trick to draw an eyebrow of human face which is the common problem in vectors, some people use solid one shape, some use shades but even then the eyebrow does not look realistic, after making hundreds of human faces I came to know this trick.

SWiSH Tutorials - How To Explode Images - Exploding images within swish

SWiSH Tutorials - How to make DNA mouth. Lines moving. - Here's a short and simple tuorial how to make this weird thing..

SWiSH Tutorials - How to Simulate Letters Being Written - One method of simulating handwritting in Swish

SWiSH Tutorials - How to Make Crystal/Plastic Buttons in swish, Simple Tutorial - This was not meant to be a tutorial, actually I was submitting some buttons I created, and thought why not to post 1 step tutorial for the beginners

SWiSH Tutorials - How to put your Swish-movie online - How to? With screenshots.

SWiSH Tutorials - In the Beginning (the basics together) for Swish 2.0 - What are scenes, sprites, buttons and effects, labels, timelines

SWiSH Tutorials - Loading And Positioning Swf Files - How to use the load movie action and load SWF files into sprites

SWiSH Tutorials - Making a Link in SWiSH (2 formats) - Goto frame and goto url

SWiSH Tutorials - Making your Movie Transparent - How to make the background of your movie transparent.

SWiSH Tutorials - Make Your Own Volume and Balance Controls (*files) - Explaining how to use and set up your custom volume/balance controls

SWiSH Tutorials - Making your text look crisp - Learn how to make your text look crisp

SWiSH Tutorials - Mouse over text effects - Moving text effects when you move your mouse cursor over a button and when you click on it.

SWiSH Tutorials - No Window Pop-Up - A Pop-Up made with swish that has no window

SWiSH Tutorials - Outlined Text and Gradient Filled Text - Giving text an outline or gradient/image fills

SWiSH Tutorials - Panels : The Actions Panel - Explaining the various features of the Actions Panel.

SWiSH Tutorials - Panels : The Movie Panel - Explaining the various features on the Movie Panel.

SWiSH Tutorials -Panels : The Shape Panel - Explaining the various features of the Shape Panel.

SWiSH Tutorials -Panels : The Text Panel - Explaining the various features of the Text panel.

SWiSH Tutorials -Panels : The Transform Panel- Explaining the various features of the Transform Panel.

SWiSH Tutorials - Putting your SWiSH Movie on the Internet - Once they have created their movie, most people will want to upload it to the internet. This tutorial will take you through the process step by step.

SWiSH Tutorials - Quick flashes - text - backgrounds - Quick Flashes text Backgrounds tutorials

SWiSH Tutorials - Play & Stop Control In Java Script - Play & Stop Control In Java Script

SWiSH Tutorials - Random swish Movies - Random SWiSH Movies

SWiSH Tutorials - Ray of Light - Use built in actions to really make your work shine!

SWiSH Tutorials - Reverse Blur Effect - Objects blur away from the viewer - instead of from

SWiSH Tutorials - Retouching Photo., Swish 2/max. - In this tutorial I will teach you how to retouch a photo. In 3rd image of preview, I have changed the quality to show how I blended different colours of skin. This method requires almost 15 minutes in other software but in swish, it requires maximum 5 minutes because its solid shapes cover much area.

SWiSH Tutorials - Rouned Rectangles in Swish - How to create rectangles with rounded edges

SWiSH Tutorials - Rolling window - Simulate a window rolling down

SWiSH Tutorials - A Semi-uniform Energy-density Randomizing Function - Control your randomized conten

SWiSH Tutorials - Scroll: Mouse Rollover - The scrollbar is a great way to display a lot of information in a limited space.

SWiSH Tutorials - Scroll: Mouse Press - Similar to the tutorial above, this tutorial uses mouse clicks to control the text.

SWiSH Tutorials - Scrollbar - Create a drag-able scrollbar for displaying large amounts of text in a small space

SWiSH Tutorials - Setting up a Loop Sequence - Using a controller sprite

SWiSH Tutorials - Stop Your Movie From Looping ! - Stop Your Movie From Looping !

SWiSH Tutorials - The Swish Text Scroller - Creating scrolling text within Swish

SWiSH Tutorials - The Swish 2.0 User Interface - Explaining the panels, menus, and interface for Swish 2.0

SWiSH Tutorials - The Transform Image Scroller - Explaining the usage of the Transform action

SWiSH Tutorials - Using Pixel/Bitmap Fonts with SWiSH - The rules for using pixel fonts in swish

SWiSH Tutorials - Using The Percentage Preloader Plugin - How to use and customize the percentage preloader plugin

SWiSH Tutorials - Using the Flash Custom Cursors - How to use the flash custom cursors from our downloads section

SWiSH Tutorials - Human Face Cuts - Learn to draw a gorgeous female face in SWiSH 2!

SWiSH Tutorials - Let's Make Pong Part 1 - Re-create the famous game PONG in SWiSH!

SWiSH Tutorials - Fadein And Fadeout Prototypes - Fades that are independent of a movie timeline

SWiSH Tutorials - Import a website layout - Import a website designed in Photoshop into SWiSHMax

SWiSH Tutorials - Scene On-Click Redirection - Scene on click redirection without any code or buttons in

SWiSH Tutorials - Highest Depth - How to find the highest depth in your movie using SWiSH Script

SWiSH Tutorials - Highest Depth 2 - A second technique for finding the highest depth with SWiSH Script

SWiSH Tutorials - Calculate new positions for objects that should be on integer _x or _y faster!

SWiSH Tutorials - Create Turbo Charged Array.getdata functionality with this code optimization - Create a turbo charged array

SWiSH Tutorials - Create an Easy XML and Dot reader with SWiSH Script - Create an Easy XML and Dot Reader

SWiSH Tutorials - Prototypes - Using Gettextdata And Addscroll to load external text into a Movieclip

SWiSH Tutorials - Pauseme Prototype - Pause in movieclip timeline for a specific count of seconds

SWiSH Tutorials - Getdata Prototype - Load external data into array

SWiSH Tutorials - Vertical Gradient - Quickly create vertical gradients with the rotation tool in SWiSH

SWiSH Tutorials - Animated Buttons - Learn the basics of creating animated buttons in SWiSH

SWiSH Tutorials - Animated Outline - Create the popular effect of an animated outline for an image

SWiSH Tutorials -Floating Letters - Animated Letters Flying Around Until You Mouseover!

SWiSH Tutorials - Animated Leaves in Vector - Create growing vines that burst out with leaves!

SWiSH Tutorials - Creating A Tiled Background in SwishMax - Creating a Tiled Background

SWiSH Tutorials - Scribbles Revisited - Another Random Scribble Script done in SWiSH!

SWiSH Tutorials - Random Motion - Create Completely Random Motion with Easing Effects

SWiSH Tutorials - Vertical Follower Menu - Create a Vertical Menu System that follows the mouse cursor

SWiSH Tutorials - Swish Tooltips - Create Pop Up Text on objects in your Flash Movie on Mouseovers

SWiSH Tutorials - Experimental Cursor - Create a Neat Tailed Mouse Cursor

SWiSH Tutorials - Scribbling in Swish - Create a Completely Random Scribble Script

SWiSH Tutorials - Fun With Spirals - Create a Random Spirograph Effect

SWiSH Tutorials - Swishscript Form Field Function - Create a Form in SWiSH

SWiSH Tutorials - Scripted EKG effect - Spike Monitor like an EKG System

SWiSH Tutorials - Round Bevel Effect - Round Bevel Effect

SWiSH Tutorials - Layer Over Html in Swish2 - Users don't have to leave the Flash page for a Form!

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