Flash Explained

In this easy, detailed Flash 8 pro lesson I will show you how to make a sleek green sphere preloader for your website. In this lesson, you will learn:

How to create a sphere with a realistic depth effect,
How to use the great filters in Flash 8 pro to achieve a realistic sphere,
How to use transparency [...]

In this thoroughly explained, detailed lesson made for Flash 8, I will show you how to create a really cool, complete Flash website navigation and loading system. The menu that you will make has a built-in animated preloader. You will learn:

How to design a menu with a built-in preloader (a numerical one),
How to create a [...]

In this detailed tutorial made for Flash 8, you will see how easy it is to create a preloading system that is gradually displaying an image as your site loads. I will show you the following:

How to import an image into Flash,
How to create a rectangular movie clip and turn it into a mask,
How to [...]

In this tutorial, you will see how easy it is to create an internal preloader for your Flash site, complete with:

A graphical loading bar,
An animated text field showing the percentage of your Flash movie loaded so far and,
A dynamic text field showing the amount of bytes loaded and total bytes.

Moreover, you are going to learn:

I will show you how to make a preloader that acts as the cursor on the screen.
As you can see in the example below, the preloader moves and acts as the substitute of your mouse. This example is a document with small dimensions. However, what you will learn in this lesson can be applied to [...]

There is a certain type of preloader often seen on flash sites: the one where the text showing the percentage of the movie loaded changes color as the loading bar passes over it. This is done with the use of a mask.
To see what I mean, look at the flash movie below. This is the [...]

Learn to create the basic preloader with a loading bar showing how much of the movie has loaded. The advantage of a graphical preloader of this kind is that is the most intuitive for a user to see how much more she or he must wait to acces your site. Here’s a nice preview of [...]

With this tutorial, you will learn how to make a basic preloader which shows how much of the Flash movie in which it resides has loaded. This kind of preloader is best used with small movies, intros and the like.