Add Text in Flash

Looking for a guide on how to create pages within Flash Catalyst CS5? Whether you're new to Adobe Flash or merely unfamiliar with Creative Suite 5, you're sure to benefit from this free video software tutorial from Lynda, which presents a thorough, step-by-step overview on how ...more

In this video tutorial you will learn to animate text within Flash. Learn to use Flash's built-in feature to quickly separate each letter in a word onto different layers. We'll then animate each letter one by one to achieve the effect we want. Create text animation in Macromed ...more

Learn how to work with the newly-revised text engine in Adobe Flash CS5. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular Flash-development platform or a seasoned web developer looking to better acquaint yourself with the new features and functions of the latest iteration of the applicat ...more

Want to learn how to mask text using gradient in Flash? In this 3 minute video, the viewers will learn just that. First of all, create the text that you want to mask. Next, prepare the gradient that you will be masking your text with, remember to set alpha to zero. Select the ...more

In this clip, we learn how to add closed captioning to an Adobe Flash Professional project through use of ActionScript cue points. Whether you're new to the Adobe's popular Flash authoring application or are a seasoned Flash developer merely looking to better acquaint yourself ...more

The Java windows can pop up and alert your user to important aspects of your website - such as receiving a forum message. This tutorial shows you how to make your own Java-style popup alert window using Action Script 3 and add it to your Flash-based website.

New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 277th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to use the ...more

This clip offers instructions on how to create and manipulate title text within Adobe Premiere CS4 or CS5. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular non-linear editor or a seasoned video professional just looking to better acquaint yourself with the program and its various feature ...more

Create an image using Adobe After Effects in which 3-D words and numbers roll across the screen, as if they were on a giant wheel. This is not a difficult tutorial, and makes for a great intro clip for any video project.

Tom Green demonstrates this floating text technique by cutting the text out of the an image using Fireworks and then animating the text floating using Flash. For more Adobe software tutorials from Layers Magazine, search Layers Magazine on WonderHowTo. WonderHowTo indexes all ...more

This video shows you the different types of text you can create in Illustrator CS3 and then use in Flash. You'll learn how to set up text effectively in Illustrator, and how to copy and paste text between Illustrator and Flash. Check out this video created by Mordy Golding now ...more

Creating Flash animation is one of the most popular ways for beginning digital animators to cut their teeth. This video will teach you how to animate one fairly basic effect in Flash CS4, making text write itself out using a mask layer. For Flash beginners, this is a great way ...more

This tutorial shows you how to create masked text on a website in Flash 8. This type of effect allows you to hide part of an object or text and slowly reveal or "animate" it. Great for making spotlight kind of effects. Create masked text on a website using Flash 8. Click throu ...more

Do you already have an image file that you want to include in your Flash project?. In this Flash 8 video tutorial you will learn how to add and import it into Flash. Yes, it's much easier than you think! Make sure to hit "play tutorial" in the top left corner of the video to s ...more

Add a rollover and rollout effect your movie clips created in Adobe Flash CS3. This tutorial shows you the process to add in an extra level of interactivity to your projects created using Flash. Achieve this effect by using the Tweener Class.

New to Microsoft Excel? Looking for a tip? How about a tip so mind-blowingly useful as to qualify as a magic trick? You're in luck. In this MS Excel tutorial from ExcelIsFun, the 247th installment in their series of digital spreadsheet magic tricks, you'll learn how to add lea ...more

Adobe InDesign is the clear leader in typographic sophistication, object handling, multilingual publishing, and transparency effects for text and graphics. In this InDesign CS video tutorial you will learn to use text wrap. Learn how to import an image, use the pen tool to mak ...more

Learn how to create page transitions in Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5. Whether you're new to Adobe's Creative Suite or a seasoned graphic design professional after a general overview of CS5's most vital new features, you're sure to be well served by this official video tutorial. Fo ...more

This tutorial is aimed at those who are already somewhat adept at using Flash and ActionScript 3. This demonstrates an advanced masking technique called a 'glint' - having a beam of light pass over the object in your dynamic flash image.

Learn how to add send someone's contact information via SMS text message on a BlackBerry phone. This clip will show you how it's done. Whether you're the proud owner of a BlackBerry smartphone or are merely considering picking one up, you're sure to be well served by this vide ...more

Using Action Script, you can turn an image into a link to a website within your animation or movie clip. This tutorial demonstrates how you make invisible buttons and attach them to your chosen images in order to turn them into links.

Here we learn how to insert secret symbols from your keyboard onto Facebook or any other regular program. This only works on PCs, sorry Mac users! By holding down the alt key and pressing numbers on the keypad from 1-9 and beyond, we discover there are many different symbols t ...more

This tutorial shows you how to change stagnant text into a dynamic text field on a website using Flash 8. Create a dynamic text field for a website using Flash. Click through to watch this video on template-help.com

Use ActionScript 3 and Adobe Flash CS3 to add in a slider component to the website or project you're building in Flash. A slider component can allow users to do things like change the size of animations on your website.

Need some help figuring out how to create bones for character rigging within Adobe Flash Professional CS5? It's simple. And this video presents a complete walkthrough of the process. Whether you're new to Adobe Flash or merely unfamiliar with Flash Professional CS5, you're sur ...more

Whether you're new to Adobe Flash or merely unfamiliar with Flash Professional CS5, you're sure to benefit from this free video software tutorial from Lynda, which presents a thorough, step-by-step overview on how to work with code snippets within Flash Professional CS5.

A Data Grid lets you organize information on your website or other Flash project. Create lists or schedules, like concert dates, by using the Data Grid component included in Adobe Flash CS4, and then modify it using Action Script 3.

This clip presents a guide to adding the final, finishing touches to an animation created within Adobe Flash Professional CS5. Whether you're new to Adobe Flash or merely unfamiliar with Flash Professional CS5, you're sure to benefit from this free video software tutorial from ...more

In this video tutorial, Creative Cow leader Tony Ross demonstrates how to add a simple pause/resume functionality to a scrolling image bar using Actionscript 2. If you have a scrolling image bar on your website, this Flash Actionscript 2 tutorial will show you how to let users ...more

The Text Area Component is a tool available to website developers who are using Adobe Flash CS4 to build their website, and it designates a specific area of your field as text-based. You can also set up these fields as either editable or non-editable.

Learn how easy it is to add interactivity to a vector image created in Illustrator in Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5. Whether you're new to Adobe's Creative Suite or a seasoned graphic design professional after a general overview of CS5's most vital new features, you're sure to be w ...more

Add an extra level of functionality and user interactivity by adding sound to your menu buttons on your Flash-based website! This tutorial shows you how to create these sound files, and then incorporate them into your dynamic Flash-based menu by using the ActionScript code.

Add a background .mp3 file to play music when visitors come to your website. You can also build buttons to allow users to pause, mute or play the file while they're on your website. This tutorial shows you how to build this system using Action Script 3 and Adobe Flash CS4.

The CS4 version of Adobe Flash has altered the appearance and layout of your screen. If you draw often in Flash, this tutorial shows you how find and use the Smooth and Straighten functions efficiently and add them to a menu using the history and saving as a command.

Expand the depth and complexity of your Flash Catalyst project by adding animations (.swf files), videos (.flv files) or music (.mp3 files). This tutorial shows you the easiest way to add extra content to your project depending on the file type.

Allow visitors to your website to leave comments and feedback on your website with Flash and Action Script 3. This tutorial walks you through the process, also using PHP and MySQL, to create your guestbook and then add it to your website.

Checkboxes let users to your site select or deselect items in a list (such as adding products to a shopping cart or selecting multiple answers to a quiz or poll). This tutorial shows you how to build and incorporate checkboxes to your website or other Flash project.

A scrollbar adds a little bit of user interactivity to your website, letting visitors navigate and helping you optimize page space as well. This tutorial shows you how to utilize the scrollbar component when you're building a website in Adobe Flash CS3.

Learn how to get the cool glow effect on your sprites for your flash movies.

Need some help figuring out how to add drag-and-drop functionality to your Flash project? With Flash CS5, it's easy, and this clip will show you how it's done. Whether you're new to Adobe Flash or merely unfamiliar with Flash Professional CS5, you're sure to benefit from this ...more

Add shape to your animation using a motion tween along a path. Learn tips for using motion guides, snapping to motion paths, and finishing up with alpha fades. Add shape to your animation with motion tween in Flash. Click through to watch this video on sessions.edu

Radio buttons let you build quizzes, surveys and polls which you can incorporate into your website, game, animation or other Flash-based project. Follow this short tutorial, which explains how to code radio buttons and then customize their appearance in Adobe Flash CS4.

A masking animation is a small animation which reveals the image behind it, which can be used to call attention to an image. This tutorial shows you how to use the masking technique in Adobe Flash CS3 for your own projects and websites.

In this clip, you'll learn how to add play and stop actions to your Flash project through use of Flash CS5 Code Snippets. Whether you're new to Adobe Flash or merely unfamiliar with Flash Professional CS5, you're sure to benefit from this free video software tutorial from Lynd ...more

In this clip, you'll learn how to add Shaders and Pixel Bender to Away3D Lite in Adobe Flash Builder. Whether you're new to the PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor scripting language or are a seasoned web developer merely looking to improve your chops, you're sure to find benefit in t ...more

Create your own loader component to incorporate into your Flash-based website or other Flash application. This component will increase the ability for users to interact dynamically with your website and create more user-friendly content. This tutorial shows you how you can wor ...more

Actions allow you to control your movie timeline and buttons in various ways. This tutorial starts with a basic image and shows you how to utilize the different actions available to you when creating an animation in Adobe Flash CS3. Part 1 of 2 - How to Add basic actions to yo ...more

Let visitors to your website vote on a poll! Then, display the results to viewers, and also set it up so certain IPs can only vote once. You can easily code this poll using Flash, and this tutorial shows you how to create your own poll.

Ever wish you could run Emacs or Vim from within the Mozilla Firefox web browser? Well, with the It's All Text! browser extension, it's not only possible, it's downright easy! For all of the relevant details, and to get started using the It's All Text! Firefox plug-in yourself ...more

Tasktutorial teaches you how to create a sound on/off button using Flash. Name the first layer Actionscript. Go to frame 1, then window - actions. Add stop(); Go to frame 2, then window - actions. Add stopallsounds(); Create a new layer and select the text tool. Write off on. ...more

In this Flash video tutorial you learn how to add a metallic glint effect to text in Flash CS3.

1. This video shows how to use getURL in Flash ActionScript. 2. Create a new flash application and draw a circle with blue color using tools. 3. Place a text box over the circle and enter the text inside the text box. 4. Then make that circle and text box a button object using ...more

This video describes how to create a jumping letters in Flash, first create the text for example "JUMP" and using Break the letters each and then make the layer and now convert the letters into "Movie clips" and now we should add the key frames to our "time line”. Then moves t ...more

In this video, we learn how to create a free flash website using Wix. First, log online and go to "www.wix.com" and either create a screen name or log into your account. Now, click on "create" and choose a premade template or make one from scratch. Now, change the background t ...more