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Although usability evangelists often consider Flash to be a usability nightmare, used properly, Flash can provide users with a rich and interactive interface which would be impossible otherwise. Today Flash is the de-facto standard for interactive elements on the Web as most users install Flash plug-in by default. And in fact, there are many paths creative designers can take to create a more interactive and user-friendly interface.

Searching for ‘flash tutorials’ via Google & Co. won’t provide you with the results you expect. Not that you won’t find any relevant results, on the contrary — you will be directed to a large number of Flash repositories which offer everything: sometimes useful, but mostly not. Besides, browsing through these repositories isn’t that much fun — as you sometimes need to figure out whether a link you see is a hidden AdSense-block or the actual tutorial. And it’s really hard to find something “refreshing” and new simply using some standard keywords.

This article provides hand-picked professional Flash tutorials which can enrich your design skills and improve the quality of your works. We’ve tried to select most interesting and useful tutorials. Most sources can serve as the entry point for further tutorials.

Animation and Effects

Flash Tutorial Create Water Wave Effect Animation Using Masking Tween
We’re going to make a flash animation water wave effect and we going to move step by step to give you a clean explanation about how to make a water wave effect in flash using masking technique.

Watereffect in Adobe Flash Tutorials - Best of

Picture Animation
In this detailed lesson you will see how to create on a simple way picture animation using the Brush Tool and mask.

Lemon2 in Adobe Flash Tutorials - Best of

High-tech city animation
This detailed lesson made for Flash 8 will teach you how to create a really cool and advanced light city animation… More tutorials from this site.

High Tech City Animation in Adobe Flash Tutorials - Best of

Animate a Logo in Flash
With web and multimedia design there is the opportunity to add a little fun and creativity to your logo by creating a simple animation effect. Obviously this process isn’t limited to just your logo; animating an element can help draw attention to a particular object or area of a webpage or digital presentation.

Spooner in Adobe Flash Tutorials - Best of

Misty River
Read this tutorial and see how to create misty river animation. You will also learn how to use flash filters (Blur, Bevel and Drop shadow filter) and more.

Misty River in Adobe Flash Tutorials - Best of

Hypnotic Gear Rotation
I’m not sure what inspired me to do this crazy gear rotating animation, but for some reason I just started making a simple gear in flash, then what does a gear do? well it rotates!

Gear in Adobe Flash Tutorials - Best of

Execute Lightbox Scripts From Flash: Part Deux
Since the first thread showing you how to execute Lightbox scripts from Flash was such a big hit, I decided to write another showing you how to gain even more functionality in this regard. Tonight I will be showing you how to initiate a Lightbox containing a Flash movie from a Flash movie, and how to initiate Lightbox groups containing images as well as Flash movies.

Lightbox in Adobe Flash Tutorials - Best of

Simple Shape Animation
In this tutorial you will see how to transform image in many shapes. To create this tutorial, you don’t have to use action script. Only one thing that you need is flash. More tutorials from this source.

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Old Grains Effect (Old TV Effect) in Flash
In this tutorial we are going to emulate a Grain Effect in Flash which is similar to what we see in old televisions. This effect is widely used in movie scenes to indicate a event that have occurred ages ago. More tutorials from this source. Has also a collection of video tutorials.

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Zoom in Zoom Out Flash Animation with Fading Effect
This tutorial will teach you how to create a simple zoom in & zoom out animation with fade-in and fade-out effect in Flash. You can use this zooming effect on any image or text.

Zoom In Zoom Out in Adobe Flash Tutorials - Best of

Creating a 3D Tunnel Effect in Flash
Learn how to create this very cool 3D tunnel effect in Flash using some simple 2D animation techniques.

Tunnel in Adobe Flash Tutorials - Best of

Creating realistic Fireworks in Flash
Create a realistic particle based firework display using Flash.

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Rotating Letter Effect in Text
See this tutorial and learn how to rotate letters in series using some special flash tricks. You don’t have to use action script code to make this lesson. More tutorials from this source.

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Eye Catching Effect With Flash
This is an eye-catching effect that could not be created too easily without ActionScript. Flash allows you to create many cool effects using only (or almost only) ActionScript, I hope you can make a good effect.

Effect in Adobe Flash Tutorials - Best of

Images and Videos

How to Make Video Panoramas from Your Digital Camera’s Video Clips
Your digital camera probably shoots video clips as well, and by stitching those clips together, you can make a full-motion video panorama. Landscapes, streetscapes, interior shots, birthday parties, they all come to life in sparkling, wide-angle videoramas. If you liked our panographies, you’ll love our videoramas. Read on to see an example and learn how it’s done.

Panoramas in Adobe Flash Tutorials - Best of

360 Grad View
Create a panoramic view of the image with Flash.

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Creating movie clips with reflections in ActionScript 3.0
Ben Pritchard’s tutorials. You’re probably aware of those nice reflections appearing in some of the latest websites, online ads, and even software. It’s an effect common to "Web 2.0" designs, in which something like an album cover or video player appears to reflect some sort of virtual floor beneath it. This tutorial steps you through the creation of the Reflect class.

Fig02 in Adobe Flash Tutorials - Best of

Flash Tutorial – Fullscreen Flash Movie with no Warping or Stretching
Flash movies inherently have a predetermined height and width, as defined by the size of the Stage in the Flash authoring tool. Generally when a Flash movie is resized in the web browser, its contents get warped and stretched. This is sometimes not a problem with vector graphics, but with bitmap graphics it is an utter disaster. There are, however, some clever ActionScript techniques that can allow you to resize a Flash movie without any distortion of its contents. 5 pages.

Infinitely Zooming Image
Image contains a frame which zooms out forever

Infinitely Zooming Image in Adobe Flash Tutorials - Best of

Flash Slideshow Image Gallery
This tutorial will show you how to make a simple, yet effective, slideshow-type image gallery using Flash with minimal scripting.

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Using Flash to Get In Focus
A visual cue will help draw people into checking out your images. Get website visitors to explore your pictures by having the image come into focus when it is rolled over. More tutorials from this site.

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Classes and Movie Clips
In Flash CS3, you have support for creating ActionScript 3.0 (AS3) projects. Besides allowing you to write code in the new AS3 language, there are some subtle differences that may go unnoticed unless you are actively looking for new things. One such difference is what happens when you create or convert something into a new movie clip. 5 pages. More tutorials from this site.

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Space Shooter – Movie Clip and Movement
A series of Space Shooter tutorials in 5 parts. The texts are easy read and the author supplies all the needed code. More tutorials from this site.

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Most popular YouTube videos of the day in Actionscript 3
This tutorial is a pretty basic introduction to AS3, to give you a kickstart before the final release of Flash CS3. If you’re familiar with AS3, this probably isn’t anything for you, but if you’ve done some stuff in AS1 & 2, maybe had a look at 3.

Youtube-pop in Adobe Flash Tutorials - Best of

Jagged Images Transition Effect
A Flash tutorial to create a jagged transition gallery.

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Advanced Picture Gallery
In the tutorial listed below I will instruct you, how to make advanced picture gallery in flash 8 using the Action Script.

Advanced Picture Gallery in Adobe Flash Tutorials - Best of

Advanced Flash elements

Creating a Flash-based site
An extensive tutorial on how you can create a complete Flash-based web-site from scratch.

Monica in Adobe Flash Tutorials - Best of

PhoneBook
This tutorial will show you how to create application for searching (Phonebook),using the Action Script in flash. You will also learn how to cretae Input fields, how to create and use instance name and more.

Phonebook in Adobe Flash Tutorials - Best of

Flash MX, 8 or 9 Pong Tutorial
We’re going to be making a Pong game in Flash MX, 8 or 9. It’s a very simple game but will show you some of the more important gaming functions in Flash such as the hitTest function and how to move a player based on keyboard input.

Pong-game in Adobe Flash Tutorials - Best of

The Best Structure for your Flash Site
An extensive article about how to build the Flash-based site from scratch and select the best structure for the site.

Easy Flash Quiz
Tutorial about how to make quiz with correct answer counter.

Simpsonsquiz in Adobe Flash Tutorials - Best of

Roll the Dice Flash Game
In this Flash tutorial I will show you how to make a simple but yet smart dice roll game. This tutorial will cover a lot of simple programming issues, the use of buttons, make your own functions, make use of movie clip properties through actionscript, using simple math and random function an much more. I hope you enjoy it. More tutorials from this site.

Dice in Adobe Flash Tutorials - Best of

Train Simple videos: Introduction to Flash game development
Jiro Ietaka for Adobe. The following videos are excerpts from Train Simple’s Flash 8 Game Development online course and DVD hosted by Jiro Ietaka. Jiro takes you through the necessary steps to build a Flash-based game with extensive use of Flash ActionScript 2.0. 3 pages. More tutorials from this source.

Fig06 in Adobe Flash Tutorials - Best of

Vector Art Tutorial
The key to great vector art is patience, a virtue which i lost a while ago. You can spend days doing it, but in the end it IS worth it. For an example I’ll do a vector art piece of an eye, keep in mind my skills are kind of rusty as i havent done this in 6 months but I will give out files in the end so keep ur pants on.

Vektorart in Adobe Flash Tutorials - Best of

The Secret of Tweening
One of the biggest problems with animation in Flash is that it’s so easy to cheat. You’ve got motion tweens and shape tweens and timeline effects and the Spaghetti Monster knows what else that all books on Flash demonstrates as “how you animate in Flash”.

Monster in Adobe Flash Tutorials - Best of

Funky Flash Website Tutorial
A tutorial showing you how to create a funky flash website. More tutorials from this site.

Funky in Adobe Flash Tutorials - Best of

How to design a cool futuristic website interface
In this easy Flash 8 professional lesson I will explain you how to design a great interface for your Flash website. You will learn to make the following:

Maras in Adobe Flash Tutorials - Best of

Flash Analog Clock with ActionScript
In this tutorial it will be shown how to create a awesome flash analog clock using ActionScript. For attempting this tutorial is required for you to have basic knowledge of Flash and ActionScript . The result should be the following flash analog clock: More tutorials from this source.

Clock-analog in Adobe Flash Tutorials - Best of

Flash Painting Program
Create a simple dynamic painting program in Adobe Flash. Use your mouse to paint on a simulated canvas. More tutorials from this source.

Painting-program in Adobe Flash Tutorials - Best of

3D Flash Menu
This detailed lesson will teach you how to create advanced 3D flash menu in flash 8 using the Action Script.You will also learn how to design a menu, how to create buttons animation and how to draw a 3D cube using the Line Tool.

3d Flash Menu in Adobe Flash Tutorials - Best of

Actionscript: Drawing With Your Mouse
In this Macromedia Flash tutorial you will learn how to actionscript code a simple painting flash program in just a few lines of code.

Basic elements

Classic filling preloader
Learn how to create a filling preloader for your Flash movies.

Preloader3 in Adobe Flash Tutorials - Best of

Simple flash header
This lesson will show you how to make simple flash header using some special flash tricks. You can apply this simple and on the same time very useful flash header on any web sites.

Flashvault in Adobe Flash Tutorials - Best of

Interactive flash content box
Using this detailed tutorial, you will learn how to create interactivity flash content box using the action script. You can use this content box for any web site.

Interactive in Adobe Flash Tutorials - Best of

Nine Tips for Drawing in Flash
Drawing has always been a well hidden non-talent of mine but every now and then comes a project that requires me to face my demons. Using a mouse to draw is a new experience and if you are not familiar with programs like Illustrator and don’t own a Wacom board Flash is a very easy place to start learning.

Emo in Adobe Flash Tutorials - Best of

Walk Cycles: The Right Way
This tutorial isn’t about walk cycle theory. I’m assuming you already know that part. If you don’t, go buy Richard Williams’s Animator’s Survival Kit. My goal is to show you ways to use Flash that make it easier to create a good cycle, in regards to solid foot placement and consistent speed–two things that I’ve seen lacking in many Flash animated walk cycles.

Walk in Adobe Flash Tutorials - Best of

ActionScript 3.0 for developers and designers: Creating a preloader
Jamie Kosoy for Adobe. Adobe Flash is unique in that the content you create with it is intrinsically artistic and programmatic. Even if you are working by yourself, design and development must work in harmony in order for a piece to reach its full potential. With ActionScript 3.0, Flash has become a far more powerful tool—and in some ways, far more intimidating. 4 pages.

Attractive Object Appearance with Sound
With this lesson, you are going to learn how to make attractive object appearance with sound in flash 8 with no Action Script. This effect is very useful and you can use it for any flash header….

Attractive Object Appearance in Adobe Flash Tutorials - Best of

Creating a preloader for your Flash site using the image of a bottle and a rectangular mask
In this detailed tutorial made for Flash 8, you will see how easy it is to create a preloading system that is gradually displaying an image as your site loads. More tutorials from this site.

Preloader2 in Adobe Flash Tutorials - Best of

Flash Tabs Menu
In this tutorial it will be shown step by step how can be developed an awesome flash menu with tabs. We will use MovieClips, masks, invisible buttons and some ActionScript.Menu in Adobe Flash Tutorials - Best of

Sound In Flash On Click
In this easy flash lesson, you will see how to import a sound in flash and how to launch it on click usign the play button. To create this lesson, you don’t have to use action script code and you don’t have to need more experience of Flash.

Sky bluish Preloader
This detailed tutorial will show you how to create bluish preloader like sky using the action script code. You will also learn how to use mask option in flash, how to create percent for preloader and much more. More tutorials from this source.

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Buttons

Create a Glossy Button in Flash
Flash has created an era of Highly interactive and eye catching wedesign techniques. Of course, the design of the web site also plays and important role in its promotion.Here we are going to create a glossy round button in flash.

Glossy8 in Adobe Flash Tutorials - Best of

Making an Aqua Gel Button
Ever wanted to make those shiny, nice looking aqua buttons? Yes, but in Flash? You can make them in Photoshop or Fireworks. But creating them directly in Flash makes your file size a lot smaller.

Cagb 013 in Adobe Flash Tutorials - Best of

Further Resources and References

There are many other sources you can learn from. Here is the list of the ones you might want to keep bookmarked for the further references.

  • GoToAndLearn Video Tutorials
    A large collection of ActionScript tutorials.
    Gotolearn in Adobe Flash Tutorials - Best of
  • Flash Perfection
    A variety of Flash tutorials including 3D tutorials, actionscripting, animation, audio, special effects, interactivity, optimization, Flash Video and Swish.
  • Getting Started with ActionScript 3.0 in Adobe Flash CS3
    With Flash CS3 comes support for ActionScript 3.0 – the newest, standards-based programming language for Adobe Flash (SWF) movies and applications. More so than in the past, you may find it difficult to get started with ActionScript 3.0 when compared to older versions of ActionScript. This articel includes a Brief History of ActionScript in Flash. 5 pages!
  • Macromedia Flash MX Tutorials
    This set includes a number of newbie tutorials for shape tween effects, playing with text, frame by frame animation etc.
  • Kirupa: Flash and ActionScript tutorials
    A growing collection of text and video tutorials for drawing, special effects, ActionScript, Server Side and Flash, isometry and game development.
  • TheFlashBlog Tutorials
    93 simple and advanced Flash tutorials.
Sven Lennartz

The Co-Founder of Smashing Magazine. Former writer, web designer, freelancer and webworker. Author of several books. Runs the business.

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  1. 1
    Jose Espinal
    January 17th, 2008 10:58 am

    Great compilation…THANK!

    Reply
  2. 2
    readywpthemes
    January 17th, 2008 11:03 am

    Thank you for this great series!!!

    Reply
  3. 3
    Tony
    January 17th, 2008 11:12 am

    I’m gonna level with ya here – I love the site and always impressed with the weekly lists, but this is not a good list of Flash tutorials at all. I think adding links to Kirupa and GoToAndLearn at the end are going to be most valuable to anyone trying to learn Flash.

    Reply
  4. 4
    Dustin Brewer
    January 17th, 2008 11:35 am

    This looks like a pretty good list of tutorials for designers to practice around with. I like doing various tutorials sometimes just for the learning aspect of doing something differently. All and all a pretty great list, not exactly for beginners all the way through though.

    Reply
  5. 5
    Billy Dale
    January 17th, 2008 11:55 am

    Awesome as always!

    Reply
  6. 6
    Robby
    January 17th, 2008 11:57 am

    AMAZING!!!! Keep up the good work guys!

    Reply
  7. 7
    photoshop cs3 tutorials
    January 17th, 2008 11:59 am

    realy great of flash tutorials..!
    hope I had the time for practice my flash skills :S

    Reply
  8. 8
    Burak Emre
    January 17th, 2008 12:04 pm

    that’s great!

    Reply
  9. 9
    Andrew
    January 17th, 2008 12:05 pm

    the link to the 360 Grad View is wrong, it points to the phone book feature on FlashFridge. BTW great list and always reading the RSS feed.

    Reply
  10. 10
    Joke Cricket
    January 17th, 2008 12:09 pm

    Again A Great List

    Reply
  11. 11
    michael
    January 17th, 2008 12:19 pm

    360 Grad View links to phonebook

    somewhat useful list though

    Reply
  12. 12
    Cameron
    January 17th, 2008 12:57 pm

    One of the best lists yet. Thanks very much.

    Reply
  13. 13
    Dan
    January 17th, 2008 12:59 pm

    What Tony commented was exactly what was going through my head when reading this article. This site tends to put out quality articles, but this is not a great list of Flash tutorials. I’d love a flash tutorial list that included things professional web firms use on their flash websites. FWA type of material.

    Reply
  14. 14
    zedia.net
    January 17th, 2008 1:09 pm

    Very nice compilation

    Reply
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    NOT_AN_ALIEN
    January 17th, 2008 1:29 pm

    Dan: things aren’t so easy. If FWA type was easily learnable through tutorials, everybody would be doing it. Instead, one needs to focus on several different techniques, step by step, and it still takes several people on a great studio to do so (most of the time). FWA-quality websites are usually a combination of great art, concept, and development, and this is not something you find in simple tutorials. Comes with experience.

    If you want to learn techniques used for those websites, this list is a great starting point. Have a look at GotoAndLearn. Then learn XML reading, animation through code, and (OOP) design patterns, and all other specific techniques one needs for each specific case: Papervision3D, socket communication, video, etc.

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    Tim
    January 17th, 2008 1:39 pm

    while this suits fine as a list of ‘fun things to do in flash’ I also agree that it is not very professional.
    what i was hoping for was a more practical list of flash tutorials that would help in creating professional websites;
    more inline with the standard content type of the website.

    Reply
  17. 17
    Nicolas
    January 17th, 2008 1:52 pm

    Magnifique sélection.
    Merci.

    Reply
  18. 18
    Justin
    January 17th, 2008 1:59 pm

    I’m going to have to go ahead and agree with Tony on this one. I appreciate a lot of the articles here but this is a pretty weak list of flash tutorials.

    Reply
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    Shane
    January 17th, 2008 2:05 pm

    I’m not particularly interested in Flash, but I think this paragraph from your introduction sums up what’s great about this site:

    “Searching for ‘flash tutorials’ via Google & Co. won’t provide you with the results you expect. Not that you won’t find any relevant results, on the contrary — you will be directed to a large number of Flash repositories which offer everything: sometimes useful, but mostly not. Besides, browsing through these repositories isn’t that much fun — as you sometimes need to figure out whether a link you see is a hidden AdSense-block or the actual tutorial. And it’s really hard to find something “refreshing” and new simply using some standard keywords.”

    To paraphrase in my own words – there is a lot of great information on the Internet, but finding it isn’t always that easy. Posts such as these help us all.

    Thanks.

    Reply
  20. 20
    ferforje
    January 17th, 2008 2:20 pm

    Great Thankyou its useful…

    Reply
  21. 21
    Bughy
    January 17th, 2008 2:24 pm

    WoW! Amazing! U have posted some great articles in the last three or four days. Keep up the good work. U kick ! :D

    Reply
  22. 22
    ph1x
    January 17th, 2008 2:29 pm

    Thank you again dudes! what else can I say …

    Reply
  23. 23
    Martin
    January 17th, 2008 3:12 pm

    Wow !!! I was waiting for that post !!! Great !!! Despite the old coding techniques of some of those tutorials, this is amazingly helpful !!! Thanks ato SM once again !!!

    Reply
  24. 24
    Bryan
    January 17th, 2008 5:46 pm

    How is it that Smashing always seems to know when you are about to try to learn something you haven’t yet learned.

    Perfect timing for some of these tutorials and sites!!

    Reply
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    free tutorials for flash game development
    January 17th, 2008 6:28 pm

    WOWW!! great list… smashing agaiinnn…. i have some tutorials collection in my blog… i can never be compared to this list… ! SM rocks!

    Reply
  26. 26
    aravind
    January 17th, 2008 6:41 pm

    Please take care when you add links…. sort out the best tutorials… i find some of the tutorials you have is useless..

    Reply
  27. 27
    dbs
    January 17th, 2008 6:44 pm

    thanks for the links.. awesome!

    Reply
  28. 28
    sambo
    January 17th, 2008 7:43 pm

    Good list,

    Thank

    Reply
  29. 29
    Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz
    January 17th, 2008 11:35 pm

    Thank you for your comments. The link to 360 Grad Viewer was updated.

    Reply
  30. 30
    Roly
    January 18th, 2008 2:25 am

    F***** awesome!!!!! u guys do your best! Thanks a lot!

    GREAT WORK!!!

    Reply
  31. 31
    Himanshu Kapoor
    January 18th, 2008 4:21 am

    fantastic! I always needed these.

    Reply
  32. 32
    imaginepaolo
    January 18th, 2008 5:16 am

    Great sources, i list another sources in my WebDesign Blog
    imaginepaolo

    Reply
  33. 33
    madriaza
    January 18th, 2008 6:06 am

    I usually like your lists, but let me say that this isn’t good enough.
    there´s several tutorials here who does’t fit “the Smashing Magazine level”
    Sorry guys, you are humans too!

    Reply
  34. 34
    Chris Pemberton
    January 18th, 2008 6:22 am

    Not a bad list but many of the techniques are now out of date. Flash is less about timeline tweening and more about actionscript. Would have been nice to focus more on good actionscript examples.

    For anyone interested http://www.gotoandlearn.com by Lee Brimelow has some awsome example of dymanic rich flash programming and he works closley with Adobe so his code is of a high standard.

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  35. 35
    Doze
    January 18th, 2008 9:40 am

    These lists are great but it would be awesome if the next one contained only AS3. I am personally finding it hard to find some solid Action Script 3 tutorials out there.

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  36. 36
    rockswamp
    January 18th, 2008 9:58 am

    i’m sorry, but most of these tutorials are total BUSH LEAGUE

    Reply
  37. 37
    Diego
    January 18th, 2008 10:31 am

    I think there are better examples.

    Reply
  38. 38
    Joaquin
    January 18th, 2008 11:09 am

    With _very_ few exceptions, these tutorials produce horrible, amateur results. Definitely not a good list, and a poor showing by Smashing.

    Reply
  39. 39
    Web design and development forum
    January 18th, 2008 11:16 am

    A great list of very good tutorials – bookmarked.

    Reply
  40. 40
    Sam Wilson
    January 18th, 2008 11:48 am

    This list is a good list if you use it for what it’s meant to be: a collection of touchstones for developing your *own ideas.* That said, I think for Flash the best method of learning is a) have some project that will really challenge you in Flash and b) using two books, a reference manual and a Flash RIA architecture type book. And supplement your knowledge with sites (like Smashing).

    Reply
  41. 41
    Amir
    January 18th, 2008 12:30 pm

    you are really smashing minds!

    Reply
  42. 42
    gman312
    January 18th, 2008 1:25 pm

    It’s not good enough to bash a list someone has taken the time to compile unless you can provide alternate tutorials that you’ve found more useful.

    Reply
  43. 43
    gudlow
    January 18th, 2008 2:16 pm

    great list.. good job!

    Reply
  44. 44
    gr8pixel
    January 18th, 2008 8:52 pm

    what a beauty!!! bravo SM!!!

    Reply
  45. 45
    najdi
    January 19th, 2008 9:36 am

    The “Animated logo” tutorial is great! Didn’t have time to check the others but I sure will! This article will help me build a lot of new cool additions to my website!

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  46. 46
    Fabien
    January 19th, 2008 9:57 am

    learning flash from tutorials is the worst you can do IMO. you will learn a wrong, inproper or simply outdated way. you’ll lose time and won’t learn anything right.

    99.9999% of all tutorials are not made by professionals and mostly contain really ugly and stupid workarounds.

    get 2-3 books, read and understand them. then try to build your own ideas. have a look at tutorials when there’s a specific problem to solve – but don’t start with them – they will only fool you. as i said, read a theoretical documation first or you’ll most probably have a hard time and give up.

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  47. 47
    Ukrnet
    January 19th, 2008 10:09 am

    It’s very cool!
    goes to bookmarks… I like alot of this tutorials :)

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  48. 48
    Shawn
    January 19th, 2008 10:40 am

    hello,

    i’m looking for a site that will show me how to produce agency-level Flash banner and homepage canvas work. does anything exist out there like http://psdtuts.com/ but for Flash FLAs?

    i’m sure you’re all familiar with the type of work i’m thinking of:

    it’s those subtle, yet commercial-quality transitions, wipes, masks, etc…

    any idea where to find template work or tutorials on the web for this type of stuff?

    thanks!!

    sg

    Reply
  49. 49
    Jimi D
    January 19th, 2008 2:07 pm

    the link to the simple header also points to the phone book.

    Reply
  50. 50
    Julez
    January 21st, 2008 3:02 am

    No matter what those critics say, I’m dearly grateful that SM took some time to provide us these tutorial links. Bear in mind that some people is learning flash from the very basic and these links help. We are all amateur in some ways..so stop complaining…post the links that you think is good, that’ll be grand.

    Reply
  51. 51
    Nubloo
    January 21st, 2008 11:54 am

    Nice – thank you for these!

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  52. 52
    dharma
    January 22nd, 2008 3:58 am

    I liked the glossy button stuff… trust me, you can really do some good Web2.0 Logos using Flash.

    Reply
  53. 53
    Tech Slice
    January 24th, 2008 4:17 am

    Excellent tutorial!

    Reply
  54. 54
    Gayan
    January 26th, 2008 1:15 am

    Hi

    I am designing learning CDs for children using Macromedia Flash. It contains matching
    the objects using drag and dop option. I hope to give them the opportunity to paint
    various objects using the mouse,Puzzle and maze. Further, i want to make them match the appropriate
    objects using lines. Could you please help me to design such a painting program and
    a matching program,Puzzle and maze to include in my CD using Macromedia Flash. It should enable to make them paint
    objects like circles, boxes, birds and so on using the mouse. I am very grateful to you
    if you could help me in my work.

    Thanks
    Gayan.

    Reply
  55. 55
    ferrai
    January 26th, 2008 9:13 pm

    AMAZING!!!! Keep up the good work guys!

    Reply
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    mylo
    January 31st, 2008 8:23 am

    Nice tutorials , really usefules .
    I will try the 3rd one

    thanks for collecting

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    raffy
    February 5th, 2008 8:30 am

    this is what i mean of comments

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    reetesh
    February 5th, 2008 10:59 am

    thanks to shere good things to us .now i feel happy to learn lots of things……

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    Jason
    March 19th, 2008 1:35 pm

    It is a little disappointing to see more negative comments than I’m used to seeing. I think the list is good for people getting into Flash, which are normally the people that would use a tutorial. I’m going to have to agree with Not_An_Alien on this one. The stuff you need to know to create award winning, professional Flash sites you don’t learn from a fifteen minute tutorial. Lee Brimelow’s gotoandlearn is a good place to start, but even then, you’re just duplicating someone else’s work. I’ve seen people include the final products from the gotoAndLearn tutorials in their portfolio. Tutorials can give you some tools, but they’re meant to teach you about Flash, not write hundreds of lines of actionscript while becoming innovative to win FWA type of stuff. If you aren’t using it to learn, and only using it for the finished product then don’t waste your time on doing the tutorial, just buy an XML driven template.

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    Ramesh Kommana
    March 28th, 2008 12:16 am

    This is amazingly helpful !!!

    Amazing and Smashing Minds.

    Good Work

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    ashish soni sr. graphic designer
    April 14th, 2008 4:18 am

    your work, your mind, your helping nature

    It all work is fantatic, amazing, i am very glad to see this

    nice work

    I am Salute you

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    Elias
    April 28th, 2008 11:24 pm

    Thank you so much, Great Tutorials, hope to see more and more…

    Thanks again

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    Gio Gutierrez
    May 5th, 2008 4:29 pm

    Great selection of flash tutorials. Wanted to post a great one involving sounds which I didn’t see any on this list. Check it out: http://www.dorklessons.com/?action=view&url=flash-basics-lesson-22-sounds

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    a
    June 5th, 2008 11:24 am

    if you liked these, gotoandlearn.com has some of the best flash tuts i’ve seen!

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    Nilson Saavedra
    July 5th, 2008 12:07 am

    what a great collection of flash tutorials, im stunned, can believe it, nice, Thx

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    phanichalla
    July 12th, 2008 2:04 pm

    very nice

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    slash
    July 18th, 2008 11:50 pm

    can we load image in flash 5 like done in above.

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  68. 68
    Dejan Adamovic
    July 28th, 2008 6:30 am

    Just wanted to thank you for all that great tutorials that you gave us.
    Thank you!

    Greetings from Croatia!

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  69. 69
    nadia
    August 5th, 2008 6:21 pm

    thanks for the tuto……….

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    diana
    August 7th, 2008 9:39 am

    post a series of Action Script 3 tutorials. d.

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    udegbu uchenna daniel
    August 8th, 2008 9:23 am

    i love using flash beacouse it hepl me to do my work very well and simple as the case may be

    udegbu uchenna nigeria

    Reply
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    jeremy
    August 20th, 2008 8:26 am

    http://peakstudios.com/category/tutorials/ has some great tutorials and plug ins that show flash users how to save time when using flash dynamically with PHP, ASP, AS2, AS3 and a Database! I highly recommend the info they offer for all Flash users! In addition, they have a Java version that is currently being tested on red 5 servers!

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    Pace
    September 1st, 2008 7:36 am

    From my 15 years of net use, this is probably the most “productive” site I’ve ever used. Yeez, I’m jumping up and down !

    Reply
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    shameera
    September 10th, 2008 1:28 am

    GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LEARNT ALOT FROM THIS SITE>> YOU ROCK!!!!!!!!!!

    Reply
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    chris1A3
    September 23rd, 2008 2:48 am

    i already have an flash botton but, i dont know how to connect it to link
    anyone please help

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    srinivas
    October 6th, 2008 2:25 am

    Thank you for giving good tutorials.

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    mel
    October 30th, 2008 7:07 am

    really helpful. Thanks.

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    Rob
    November 4th, 2008 7:10 pm

    Karma bless u =)

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    Autre
    November 7th, 2008 11:51 am

    Thanks for these Tutes.
    Would love more Actionscirpts :)
    Autre

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    srinivaas
    November 17th, 2008 7:58 am

    Thanks really Nice

    Reply
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    spocrep
    November 24th, 2008 9:46 am

    great job…there are many cool tutorials:)

    Reply
  82. 82
    1nFinity865
    December 3rd, 2008 12:05 am

    THANK YOU!!!!!!! I’ve been looking for flash tutorials, but all I could find was stupid video tutorials. These are GREAT!!

    Reply
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    chris
    December 8th, 2008 1:59 pm

    Tutorial request: Parralax effect

    Dear reader,

    I would like to request a tutorial for a parralax effect. I’ve spotted a couple months ago a beautiful internetsite. For my own site I want to sort of duplicate the parralax effect shown on this site. I’ve tried for a couple of weeks to create this effect but with no succes. So to all the good people can you please help me and explain to me how to create this effect in a tutorial. Thanx a lot in advance

    Chris

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    Jamil
    December 17th, 2008 4:17 am

    This is one of the best site in the world.

    Thanks

    Reply
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    santosh
    January 30th, 2009 4:45 am

    its really great tutorial.thanks….

    Reply
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    Sercan
    February 11th, 2009 12:45 am

    Check out this tutorial: http://www.wowebmaster.com/flash/2009/flash-video-player-tutorial/

    I have not found any other tutorials on flash video player. I think, it is worth to be added into this tutorial list.

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    rex
    February 19th, 2009 11:53 am

    You guys are just awesome!!! Tried a few of the tutorials and wow! I love your compilations of tutorials. Keep them coming!!! Thank You.

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    Helen
    February 20th, 2009 1:35 am

    Smashing is a great inspiration but to put up a big mess of mixed as2 and as3 tutorials without writing wichone is what is not very useful at all.
    If you make a real good list of tutorials that only use as3, that would be really useful!
    as2 is in the past, would you list tutorials for old versions of other programming languages?

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    Krishna
    February 22nd, 2009 12:11 am

    wow!!!tutorials r excellent.These are easy to understandand there are many tricks to do works simply.But all tutorials are small works.I need any good animations which should be critical to do…..

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    Josef Hrehorow
    March 6th, 2009 9:39 am

    Thanks for the collection! Dugg it!

    Reply
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    Shannon
    March 6th, 2009 2:23 pm

    “Simple Shape Animation” tutorial is no longer available.

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    cpt.spaulding
    March 14th, 2009 5:05 am

    most of the tutorials in this thread are very rookie and create cheap results. nothing for industry projects. i have to agree with tony and dan…. the title “best of” isn’t, whats inside.
    for good flashing, check gotoandlearn.com for exsample…

    but “smashing” is still a big inspiration for me!

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    Dean Pugh
    March 17th, 2009 7:01 am

    Just a quick note, the Simple Flash Header link does not work, I managed to find it though.
    This is the correct link for the Simple Flash Header.

    Reply
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    stephen
    August 31st, 2009 10:55 pm

    Hello! Thanks very much for this great tutorial. It makes me feel like creating Flash is just like walking around the park.
    To add an augment to it, here are some tutorials about web Flash video player authoring, hope it helps – http://www.playerdiy.com/support/

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    flash scope
    September 16th, 2009 1:47 am

    these tutorials are excellent. i’ll feature them at my flash components website.

    Reply
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    Ish
    September 25th, 2009 3:46 pm

    Hi,
    I’m looking for someone who can help me make an animation of a stretching 3d spring with balls coming out of it as you stretch it using flash and illustrator. I have drawn the spring using illustrator but don’t know how to do this using flash.

    Reply
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    Detsl
    October 29th, 2009 11:49 pm

    You are forgot about http://www.3Dbin.com – online 360 object view creating

    Reply
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