Create Flash Fast and Easy Tips By Your Sam

Create Flash Fast and Easy Tips By Your Sam

Build Flash websites, banners, presentations, and slide shows

Import photos, screenshots, clipart and video files

Add shapes, lines, curves, text, 3d effects, and gradients

Insert links, create buttons and clickable hotspots

Play background music, voice-overs, and click sounds

Apply animation effects like zoom in/out, flips and rotation

Export SWF files and add them to your website

Customize your Flash project with the ActionScript language

Text Animation.

To create the text animation:

1. Launch Flash Designer and choose "Blank document".
2. Choose "Frame" > "Frame Size" to set movie dimensions, for example 400 x 200.
3. Choose "Text" tool and click on the frame. Type the text (for example "Text Animation") and click OK.
4. Choose "Edit" > "Align" > "Center on Page" to center the text on the frame.
5. Choose "Intro" > "Intro Animation", check "Enable Animation" and choose "Zoom" effect.
6. Click "Text Animation", check "Enable Glyph Animation" option and click OK twice.
7. Press F9 to preview the animation. Hit "Alt+F4" to close preview.
8. Choose "Intro" > "Intro Animation"
9. Check "Fade" option. Click OK.
10. Press F9 to preview.

Way & Always Visible option

1. Make sure the text is still selected.
2. Choose "Intro" > "Intro Animation"
3. Check "2 Way" and "Always Visible" option. Click OK.
4. Press F9 to preview.

Animating Items.

To apply intro and outro effects:

1. Launch Flash Designer. Choose "Frame" > "Frame Size" to set movie dimensions.
2. Choose "Rectangle" tool and draw a rectangle on the frame. Choose "Item" > "Fill Color". Change rectangle color to anything else than white.
3. Press F9 to preview the animation. Rectangle is static. Hit "Alt+F4" to close preview.
4. Choose "Intro" > "Intro Animation"
5. Check Enable and choose "Fly In". Click OK.
6. Press F9 to preview the animation. The rectangle will fly from left edge. Hit "Alt+F4" to close preview.
7. Choose "Outro" > "Outro Animation"
8. Check Enable, choose "Fly Out" and "to right edge". Click OK.
9. Press F9 to see intro and outro animation. 

Applying in-frame motion effect.

1. Make sure the rectangle is still selected.
2. Choose "Animation" > "Motion"
3. Set the following motion options; speed 2, rotation 5 and zoom 2. Click OK.
4. Press F9 to preview. 

Move on path

1. Launch Alligator Flash Designer.
2. Choose the Line tool.
3. Draw a line across the frame.
4. Choose the Ellipse tool.
5. Draw an ellipse.
6. Check if object (ellipse) is selected. Choose "Animation" > "Motion".
7. Under "Move on Path" select the object, polyline name, for example "PolyLine1". 
8. Click OK and press F9 to preview the movie.

Animation Wizard

1. Launch Alligator Flash Designer. Set movie dimensions, 400 x 400 pixels: "Frame" > "Frame size".
   
   
2. Creating a square Choose the "Rectangle" tool and draw a small rectangle. Choose "Item" > "Resize" and enter 32 x 32, click OK.
   
   
3. Duplicate the square Choose "Edit" > "Duplicate and duplicate the item 8 times horizontally. Set "Step Y" to "0", for "Step X" type the width of the square plus some margin for example try 40 pixels, type 7 as the count. Select all squares and choose "Edit" > "Duplicate" again. Set Step X to 0 and Step Y to the same as before for example 40 pixels.
   
   
4. Delete few squares (about 1/4 of them) - click on a square and press "Del" key.
   
   
5. Creating the move Pres Ctrl+A to select all items. Choose "Animation" > "Animation Wizard". Uncheck "Synchronized" options. Click OK.
   
   
6. Hit F9 for preview.