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Flash

Macromedia's Flash has become an industry standard for animated and interactive vector graphics on the web. Growing from a simple format for displaying images with animation, many designers now use Flash to provide a complete web interface: although it requires a plug-in to be viewed, this is widely available with most browsers and the program uses efficient compression techniques to provide small file sizes. To follow this tutorial, you will need to download various files from the resources section.

Before following these lessons, you may wish to familiarise yourself with the Flash interface by clicking here.

Adding images and buttons

    Lesson 1 - Importing images
    Lesson 2 - Creating buttons

Actions, scenes and publishing your movie

    Lesson 3 - Adding scenes
    Lesson 4 - Assigning actions
    Lesson 5 - Publishing the movie

 

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