One of the most useful features in Flash is the Flash component which is a pre-built movie clip that has controls, called parameters, that can be used to customize the generic component for your project´s needs.

We will continue to take our tour of the Flash Workspace. This tutorial is to familiarize you with the names and purposes of the parts of the workspace.

The Flash Timeline is the control panel for building animations in Flash.

I have several requests from readers for text effects. One easy way to create text effects is the built-in Flash Timeline Effects. Although this article is about text, these effects can be applied to other things on the stage such as shapes, graphics, grouped objects, bitmaps and more.

How to use layers in the Flash Timeline to organize your project assets.

In this tutorial, we will create a simple text effect Tween using Flash Motion Presets for a Thanksgiving project.

Importing and positioning the graphics for the first screen for our Flash storybook project.

This tutorial begins the second phase of our Flash iOS Storybook App series.

In this tutorial, we will set up the X and Y positions for each element on the settings menu overlay page for our Flash storybook app.

We will use an invisible button over the book. When clicked on, it will start the storybook.