Tasked with creating an iPad app that was stylish but easy to use, Iain Anderson combined design, programming and various different software to make it happen. Here's how.
If you're new to Adobe Flash you may want to start by creating simple animations. There's no better place to start than by animating text! Iain Anderson takes you through the basics in this tutorial.
Regardless of the fact Flash isn't supported on iOS devices, it is still the standard video player type on the web today. David Smith shows how to make interactive controls for video in Adobe Flash.
You may have heard the saying: Video is two-thirds audio. The same idea can be applied to interactive animations made in Flash, too. David Smith sounds out the audio side in Adobe Flash CS5.
In Part 1 of Approaches to Working with Text in Flash, you learned about Flash's new TLF text engine, and how to set general text formatting. In this installation, I'd like to push things a little...
Working with text in previous versions of Flash was always somewhat of a challenge. One of the biggest gripes was the sheer lack of typography control in Flash projects.
Flash's Motion Editor makes it super-easy to visualize and edit your animation sequences. With it, we can control things like motion, color, effects, easing, and more.
Have you been following the ongoing drama of the "Flash vs HTML5" battle over the past few years? As a software educator, I really try hard to remain agnostic towards technology, but because I love...
Flash is known for being an interactive animation program, but unlike animation, adding interactivity means making things happen within a movie, like creating links so that your viewers can explore yo