In this Macromedia Flash tutorial I will show you how to use layer masking to create Steel Effect, this looks great as shown below, remember I have used Flash V. 5.0 but you can use Flash 4.0, I expect you to know the basics of Flash animation like making symbols and tweening. If you don't know how to animate in Flash don't worry you can easily learn it from the Help menu by going to Help -> Lessons you will find around 8 lessons enough for beginners to understand basic flash animation.

Gives the basic idea of masking, has the effect on the text of a light shadow"

Spotlight masking of it's own kind. A must see for beginners and new intermediates.

This simple tutorial help create a simple scrollee and gives a introduction to object-oriented actionsripting.

Learn how to create an animated bouncing text effect in Flash.

new Flash 8 filters such as blur, drop shadow, and bevel are extremely easy to apply directly on objects at authoring time, but you may want to generate these effects using ActionScript to have more dynamic control over them. Generating these filters through ActionScript is not as straightforward as you might think it is, this tutorial will hopefully teach you how to do that easily. This tutorial is to be followed in Flash 8 and the created SWF files will have to be viewed on Flash 8 Player to show these effects. You are required to have some knowledge about the arrays class in ActionScript to be able to manipulate these filters.

In this tutorial, I will show how to create a Rough text effect using mask effect.

This morning i needed to reduce any given string to a certain length and then place a pattern at the end of the string, in this case a simple '....' but the reduction had to take into account full words, meaning, i didnt want to just split the string in any old place and leave parts of a word in the final string. So i created this little String Exstension which i thought may come in useful for some other people! Seems to work great for me.

Have you ever wanted to learn how to create advanced text effect using AS?

With this tutorial you will learn how to scroll dynamically load text using the loadVars class from an external Text File. Once you understand the concepts in this tutorial, they can be applied outside text and text boxes to graphics, swf files, and other objects.