Flash Explained

How to create ad banners in Flash CS4

With this easy lesson, you will learn to make a real-world ad banner in Flash CS4. You will see how to do the following things: Create an eye-catching animation, Make text messages appear gradually, Duplicate scenes to cut working time, Make a hyperlinked invisible button and more. Here is the banner that you are going [...]

Metallic buttons for Flash CS4

I have made metallic buttons in Flash CS4 using the various filters to add effects to buttons’ normal, rollover and clicked states. Here is how they look like: You can find them in the downloads section.

Flash Explained now on deviantART

You can follow Flash Explained on deviantART, at the following address: flashexplained.deviantart.com Animations, interfaces and some quick tutorials will be posted there. Enjoy!

Learn Flash CS4 animation: Classic Tween

With this easy tutorial, I will show you how to make classic tweens in Flash CS4. You are going to learn: What are Movie Clip symbols and how to make them What is the timeline How to make keyframes How to make your Movie Clip move, change size and more 1. Making your Movie Clip [...]

Learn Flash CS4 animation: Shape Tween

With this tutorial, I am switching to Flash CS4 and ActionScript 3.0. This lesson will be the first of many in which you will learn how to make animations in Flash CS4. You will see what are shape tweens, motion tweens and classic tweens, with many applications and variations of these basic animation techniques. If [...]

Downloads are live – go get the goodies!

The downloads section has just been added to Flash Explained! In this new section, goodies will be available for download! For starters, all the lessons on animation in Flash CS3 have been added for you in PDF format! Download them, print them and learn even more easily! Jump immediately to the new download area on [...]

Moved over to a new host

FlashExplained.com has finally been moved onto a new hosting server! In the next few days, you can expect a few disruptions here and there until I tweak all the things necessary for the seamless functioning of the website. However, the good things you can expect now: Improved service, because the hosting at mediatemple.net is simply [...]

New host, new tutorials, new features

Hi friends, It’s been long since I posted anything new. Well, rejoice, for new tutorials are in the works! Also, I’ll be changing the host for flashexplained.com because I need something more powerful to handle my 100K+ monthly visits. So don’t sweat it if the site goes down for 1-2 days. It will be back [...]

Flash CS3 animation basics: Motion guide

With this simple and straightforward tutorial, you will learn one very handy animation technique: how to use a motion guide to make an object follow a certain path. I’ll show you: How to create a motion guide (inside a guide layer), How to make a movieclip follow the motion guide you made, How to make [...]

Wishing you all the best

Happy New Year! Wishing you lots of love, health and money in 2009! Luka Maras