ActionScript 3 Tutorials gotoAndLearn() Flash Forums • Index page Yazo.net Flash AS2 & AS3 Tutorials, Game Code, Effects, Source Files & Sample Downloads | Free ActionScript 30 Hand-picked Flash and Essential Actionscript 3.0 Tutorials Apr 27 2009 Using Flash properly, allows you to create stunning visual experience and offer your visitors amazing user interaction. Flash’s strength lies in its ability to showcase unusual visual solutions, including graphic motion, videos and sound. Make use of them if you really want to achieve a stunning visual design This article provides 30 Impressive Flash and Actionscript 3.0 tutorials which can enrich your design skills and may serve as an inspiration for your Flash-projects. - Create an Impressive Magnifying Effect with ActionScript 3.0 In this tutorial we’ll learn how to create a magnifying glass effect, demonstrating use of the displacementMapFilter. - Creating Gradients in Flash Creating gradients is an important skill to have when designing in Flash. - Controlling the Timeline with ActionScript 3 In this tutorial you’ll learn how to control buttons using ActionScript 3 while creating a guide for selecting perennials. - 3D Menu on a Cube with Perspective Check out the demo Homepage
Adobe Edge vs. Flash Comparison Edge is great for animating and adding interaction using HTML5 Adobe Edge is a new software package from Adobe that makes it fairly easy to animate websites using a combination of HTML5, Javascript and JSON. Since HTML5 will become more and more prevalent over time, tools that make it easy to animate and add interactivity for HTML5 will be real important to developers for some time. Edge doesn't use Actionscript Edge doesn't use Actionscript like Flash does, and part of the big question is: Will the advent of HTML5 eventually kill Flash? Edge fills an important need with HTML5 Anyhow, Adobe Edge does fill an important need in that HTML5 is already becoming important to working developers, and will become moreso as time goes by. Edge allows you to work with vectors and PNGs as well as JPGs. Keep an eye on it and keep an eye on all HTML5 tools that you see popping up. Flash still stronger for games and streaming video There's a GUI with a timeline animator to make it easy to animate things: