Masking is revealing a portion of your picture in any shape animation that you like. This tutorial will teach you the basics of masking in Flash MX 2004. The download .fla file is also included at the end of the tutorial.
Want to make your own really advanced preloader? Want to monitor the speed of loading, percentage or the amount of data transferred? No problem! This tutorial explains a lot of useful parameters and it also contains a working example.
This tutorial will show how to create transparent Flash for your webpage. You will be able to see right through Flash to the webpage with perfectly antialiased edges (no jaggies).
This interactive Flash tutorial will show you how to make text or symbols to have a blur like effect. It is basically showing a shadow/trail type of effect.