Flash Text Effects Tutorials Cs5 Serial Number
Lina Neiffer
In the following Flash tutorials you'll learn how to create simple and cool text effects using basic techniques like tweening, masking, etc. These tutorials use concepts of Symbols Basics and Tweened Animations in Flash.
Using Adobe Photoshop software learn how you can design cool 3 dimensonal floral text effects. This effect is great for a number of different applications such as logo design for a florist or any plant/gardening related business.
You should consider how frequently you use the flicker effect and how many flickers are contained within the effect. While strobing lights are fantastic for the right project, consider how your audience will view it as too much strobing might give your audience a headache, or worse, cause an epileptic fit.
Flickering effects are often used when dealing with a light source and are incredibly popular when working with neon-style lighting. Try adding some glow effects to your animations. If you want to learn more about creating glow effects in After Effects, check out this handy tutorial to find out how.
The Flicker Fashion Opener is a versatile template with 7 media and text placeholders. The dynamic intro video offers a smooth spinning media transition, with a black and white strobing media repeater background.
The Blinking Transitions Presets pack contains 18 flashy photo transitional effects, ready to drag and drop to your projects. The flickering effects include a film roll, quick wipe, and a unique Threshold strobe, perfect with the right music track.
The Flicker Light title is a great little project that does one thing; turns your titles into stunning Neon Flickering Light effects. Just replace the placeholder text with your title and select your color options to create a neon title of your own.
The Flicker Hexagon template is ideal for business presentations, showreels, and slideshows, with 10 media and 9 text placeholders. The smooth text animation is highlighted by a flickering hexagon mask over your media.
Adobe Photoshop is not just a set of tool box, it is a tools that enable creative people to perform these cool design pieces. The tips and tricks behind these cool effects are hard to be guessed. However,i have collected 20 amazing Photoshop text effects tutorials.
Animating in Flash requires certain understanding of motion and a lot of patience. Figuring out how the animation will work is not so hard, but achieving the desirable result is usually painstaking. In the tutorial, we'll explain the timeline and frames, tweens, and other basic techniques needed to make animations happen. You'll be animating things before you know it.
Pose-to-pose animation in Flash is created by defining actions in-between two points on the timeline, hence the term 'Tween'. There are two types of Tweens in Flash, Shape Tweens, which can only operate on drawing objects, and Motion Tweens, which can only operate on Symbols. Shape tweens allow you to mutate from one drawing object to another drawing object with different properties or at a different location on the stage. Motion Tweens allow you to move an object along a path, resize or change some basic properties of a symbol.
The basic idea is that at point A in time you have oneobject, and at a later point B you have another object.Between the two points, you have a gradual shapeshiftingtransformation from object A to object B. In order to Shape Tween, you need two keyframes to mutate between. Likethis, for example:
Motion tweens tends to produce smaller file sizes, and they tend to be easier to produce. If you have a choice between using either shape or motion tweens, it's generally better to go for motion tweens, and use shape tweens as sparingly as you can. Having said that, shape tweens give the experienced animator more control. Motion tweens allow you to make the subtle animated changes that add emotion and expression to characters, such as changes in facial expression during speech, or subtle body movements during walking.
6. After you are happy with what you got, click on the ball and hit F8 or Right-Click >>Convert to Symbol; set the symbol time to movie clip; note that the symbol you've just created is now in the library; then delete everything in the stage and drag the movie clip: redball to the stage in frame 1.
7. Now we are going to animate the ball and make it bounce up and down. Click on frame 30, right-click and select 'Insert Frame' to extend the frame for 30 frames. Next right-click anywhere in the long frame that was just created and select 'Create Motion Tween'. Note that when we create the motion tween the long frame turns blue and the rectangle at the end disappears. The layer also now has a Tween icon next to its name.
8. Now we need to add some movement to the tween by placing the ball at different places along the timeline. In a Motion Tween you move the small red rectangle at the top of the timeline, the shuttle, to the location where you want to change tween properties. Let's move the shuttle to frame 15. Next hold down the Shift key and click and drag the ball to the bottom of the visible stage (holding the shift key ensures that we will drag the ball in a straight line). Next move the shuttle to frame 30 and shift-drag the ball back to the top of the screen. Notice the green motion path created where the ball will travel.
The animation works, however, it lacks a realistic feeling since it moves up and down constantly at the same speed; what we want to do now is to add some real-life ingredients; when a ball hits the ground in real life, it will squeeze and squash.
11. Gravity speeds things up when they are falling, if you need more touches of real-world physics, you can use Easing In/Out to make your object move more naturally. Simple easing can be done by clicking on the tween and adjusting the Ease in the property tab. If we had seperated this into two tweens, we could have set one to ease in and one to ease out. However, we want one tween to both ease in and ease out. Custom easing in Flash CS4 is handled through the Motion Editor. Select the Motion Editor tab next to the Timeline tab. Scroll down to the secion labeled 'Eases', click the + sign and select Custom (the red box in upper right of the diagram below). Make sure that the scale indicates 30 (the red box in the lower left below).
Click where is says '2-Custom' to expand the graph. Click the left control point, grab the handlebar and move it along the x-axis. Then click the right control point, grab its handlebar and move it so it is along the x-axis like below.
5. Now we can delete everything on the scene1's timeline since the animation has been pasted into a symbol; then let us drag the symbol bouncingGR to the stage; On frame 1, move the symbol all the way to the left of the canvas; next, click on frame 90, press F6 then move the symbol all the way from the left to the right of the stage; finally, let us create a motion tween between this two frames, then you will see the bouncing ball is now bouncing across the screen.
Note that the green line which appeared when we first moved our symbol after creating the motion tween is its motion path. The motion path is editable like any line. Click either end of the line to begin editing (both should be in the same place with our ball) and now you can drag the control points to make the ball move anywhere on the screen.
2. Before we create this animation, its good to know that usually you should be working in 30 Frames per Second or higher. Flash's default frame rate is 12, but you can set it by choosing the selection tool (v) and looking at the contextual tool bar at the bottom of the screen. For this animation we will be working at 12 FPS, but usually you will want to change this, it will allow you to make smoother and cleaner animations.
5.Now we are going to turn the object that we created in Layer 1 into a Symbol so we can animate it. You do this by selecting the shape and pressing F8 or by going to your menu and choosing Modify > Convert to Symbol. Once the box comes up with options in it, name your symbol and choose the behavior: Graphic.
6.You can now create the keyframes for your animation. The way this method of animation works (tweening) is by you creating keyframes (the frames with the little black dots on them) and on those frames setting the important positions of your shape. Then when you apply a motion tween, flash will fill in the frames between the keyframes for you. So the first keyframe, we have the box at the left side of the stage. To make a second keyframe at frame 20, click on the frame and press F6 to create a new keyframe. Then click on frame 40 to create another keyframe. Since we want the box to go back and forth we are going to want the middle keyframe to have to box at the right side of the stage. So click on the keyframe and move the box to the right side of the screen. Now your 3 keyframes should have the box on the left, then on the right, and the final one on the left again.
7. Now we want flash to fill in the frames between our keyframes so that we get an animation. (1) Right click on each keyframe in the Blue Box layer and choose: Create Motion Tween. If you have done everything right the frames should turn blue with a little arrow (2).
8. If you drag through the score, or press RETURN, your animation should play through now. The box you created should be sliding back and forth. To create a more smooth and organic looking animation click on the keyframes that you have applied a motion tween to, and in the contextual menu at the bottom of your screen put Easing to 100, or -100, play around with the effects of this.
9.Now in the layer above your blue box layer, draw a circle. We are going to create a Shape Tween animation with this shape. You need to make 2 more keyframes using F6 just like you did for the Blue Box animation, however, in the middle frame, delete the circle and draw a different shape somewhere else on the stage. In this case I made a box. Now, instead of right clicking on the keyframes and selecting motion tween, you need to click on the keyframes and go down to your contextual toolbar where you can choose Motion from the Tween pull down menu (1). If you did everything right your shape tweened frames should be green with little arrows in the frames, as you can see in figure (2).
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