Introduction to Flash MX

	Flash MX 2004 Tutorials Here \| fla_files (You will need stuffit expander -- free)
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	A word about these tutorials Introduction

	The Interface The Interface The Toolbar The Timeline The Stage The Properties Panel Other Panels

	File Types Bitmaps and Vectors .fla and .swf

	Illustration Tools The Pencil Tool and its Options Modifying Lines and Shapes The Oval and Rectangle Tools The Free Transform Tool The Envelope Modifier The Brush Tool The Color Mixer The Pen Tool

	Movie Properties Setting Movie Properties

	Frame-By-Frame Animation Frame-By-Frame 01 Frame-By-Frame 02

	Shape Tweening (Objects) Shape Tweening Basics Shape Hinting Shape Tweening Text The Fill Transform Tool

	Motion TweeninG (Symbols) Motion Tweening Basics Symbols, Instances, and the Library Where did all My Work Go?! Easing Editing Frames Editing Instances Editing Symbols Motion Tweening 02 Tweening Effects: Editing Instances 02

	Working with Layers Naming Layers Adding Layers Rearranging Layers Hiding and Locking Layers Animating Multiple Objects

	Working With Text Text Basics Animating Text 01 Animating Text 02 The Need for Easing Scrolling Text

	Working with Sounds Importing Sounds Using Sound in Animations Sound Loops

	Scenes and MovieClips Multiple Timelines Creating Multiple Scenes Renaming and Reordering Scenes Intro to MovieClips

	Creating a Slide Show Importing a Series of Images Slide Show Controls

	Button and ActionScript Basics Using Buttons from the Common Library Stop Action Play Action Pause Action GoTo Action Making a Custom Button Making a Rollover Button Adding Sound to a Button Making an Animated Button Adding Text to a Button Instance Names GetURL Action The Hit State Making an Invisible Button Labels Making a Pull-Down Menu

	Motion Guides Motion Guide Basics Orient to Path

	Masking Masking Basics Animating Masks Masking Challenge

	Preloaders What is a Preloader? Using the Bandwidth Profiler Building a Simple Preloader Scripting a Simple Preloader

	Extra Tutorials Converting Bitmaps to Vectors with Trace Bitmap Optimizing Converted Images Pan and Zoom Challenge Exporting an Image Bitmap Fills Converting Lines to Fills Creating a Draggable Object Draggable Challenge Quiz Challenge Slideshow Challenge Animated Slideshow Movies

	Special Thanks for Helping to Support the Mac Lab! A new Mac Lab section with tutorials for these great resources is coming soon Maxon for continued support of our 3D students — Long live Cinema 4D! Cineversity for the ever-growing Cinema 4D video tutorial library — 500+ tutorials and counting 3D Attack for the great monthly Cinema 4D magazine MiniFonts and FontsForFlash for the best pixel fonts in the world! CartoonSmart for the terrific Flash tutorials — An absolute treasure for the cartoonists in class Pro Photo Secrets for Shane Goldberg's fabulous Photoshop tutorials — More treasure! Stupendous Software for a myriad of iMovie plugins — Titles and effects galore PotionFactory for PodcastMaker and VoiceCandy — Are students supposed to have this much fun? SmileOnMyMac for DiscLabel — No more Sharpies for our CDs and DVDs! Lemkesoft for the Graphic Converter — Opens and coverts any odd image formats Graphic Authority for the Photoshop resources — Brushes and backgrounds and frames, oh my! Realmac Software for RapidWeaver — For when we don't have time to Dreamweave(r) Ergonis Software for PopChar X, KeyCue, and Typinator — Brilliant, time-saving programs Flash Valley for the killer components — Fantastic new tools for the advanced students! Linecraft for 7 Web Behaviors — Open browser windows with ease from within Flash Rainmaker Research for SpellCatcher X — Not that students ever misspell words ;-) Flying Meat (yes, Flying Meat) for FlySketch — Onion skinning the monitor (very cool program!) Pangea Software for all those games — For the Game Art and Design program we're going to pilot

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