This tutorial will teach you how to create a great flash blur effect with easing on mouse over.

Masking is revealing a portion of your picture in any shape animation that you like. 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.

Do you like girls? We do, and we belive that the same effect they have in real life they also have on the Web. In short, beauty is pleasant and nice which in terms of Web translates to an improved user experience. After all, this is the ultimate goal of web design. The purpose of our tutorial website is to provide you with several techniques we use for bringing to life static pictures of pretty girls. As the name suggests, we will use Adobe Flash, the worldwide standard for animated graphics on the Web. We will teach you how to: make a kissing girl in a Flash movie, create motion effects of body parts, add extra effects on jewelry, develop girl shapes in motion ... and two bonus effects :-)

Learn how to create a simple and beautiful ripple effect in Flash. Step-by-step instructions and free .fla source file download is included.

In this Flash tutorial you will first create a symbol (object) that you can drag and drop around the screen. Next you will create a drop zone area that will cause the symbol (object) to react when it is dropped into the target area by performing a hit test. As always the completed source file is included.

Learn how blur images in Flash 8.0 using the in-built blur filter.

This interactive Flash tutorial will show you how to make text or symbols to have a blur like effect. It is basically showing a shadow/trail type of effect.

On this tutorial website, we aim to explain Flash techniques for working with objects with a star shape, in order to obtain cool animations with great effects. You will learn how to create your own stars from scratch, or where to look for one, how to make a star blink, fall, or how to make it move like crazy in your movie. After reading our indications and studying our samples we hope you will also have the ability to recognize a perfect picture for the background when you see one. The examples presented are designed to be medium in difficulty so you will need some Flash experience in order to fully understand them. Just to name some topics, you will learn to design: falling stars effects, fireworks effects, sparkling nubbles effect, light effects and much more.

In this Flash tutorial you will learn how to make text glow (this effect will also work for anything drawn in Flash). The glowing edges around the text will ease in and ease out in this animations. Topics include: soften fill edges, alpha control, and basic tweening. No actionscript involved and source file is included.

In this Flash tutorial you will create a rollover effect using masks. The crosshairs will follow your mouse cursor as you move over the text. Topics involved: startDrag actionscript, masking, drawing a target using radial gradient tool. Source file included.