Special Effects
This section is dedicated to special effects and cool animations you can create in Flash. You will learn how to create effects from dragging masks to creating a pool of squares. Check them out below.
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  • Lighting Mask
    Create a really cool lighting mask effect for your text.
     
  • Ray of Light Revisited
    Learn how to create the killer text effect originally seen on Yasuto Suga's rayoflight.net site. This is a must see for any flasher!
     
  • Creating Falling Snow in HTML Pages
    Create falling snow effects that go over HTML objects such as images and text!
     
  • Motion Blur in Flash 5
    Learn how to create the illusion of fast paced motion by blurring an image in Photoshop and combining it with Flash.
     
  • Launch Borderless Window
    Learn how to launch the popular, borderless aka "Chromeless" browser window directly from Flash.
     
  • Random Letter Cycling
    Use a little bit of ActionScript to randomly display and cycle through letters in a word.
     
  • Scrolling Image
    Learn how to scroll an image continuously to simulate movement. This is the same effect seen on Kirupa's footer in the forums.
     
  • Opening a New Browser Window in Flash
    Combine some JavaScript and a cup of Flash to launch a new browser window that can be customized.
     
  • Pool of Squares
    In this great tutorial written by Manny Dimatulac, learn how to create squares that appear when you move the mouse around in a movie. A great effect that is only 2KB in size.
     
  • Text Mask: Follow Mouse
    Learn to create a text mask that follows your mouse pointer.
      
  • Text Mask: Drag
    Learn to create a text mask that can be dragged around your animation or animation area.
      
  • Movies & Flash
    In this comprehensive tutorial, learn how to import a movie clip, export as a sequence of images, and re-import them for use in your Flash animations.  
     
  • Image Masking
    Create a stunning movie by applying the mask effect to a background image.  
     
  • DHTML in Flash
    Combine some DHTML effects in Flash to create a very cool looking animation.  
     
  • Flash 5 And PowerPoint 2000
    Create killer presentations by adding your Flash animations inside Microsoft PowerPoint itself. This tutorial will explain easily how to do so.  
 
 


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