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Free Flash Pro Trial Versions - Free Download
Go to our Flash Pro New Features Page for links to the full feature, 30-day free trial of Flash for MAC or Windows.

Adobe Flash Pro CS5 - Best Deals From Adobe
Adobe Flash Professional CS5 is the industry standard for interactive authoring and delivery of immersive experiences that present consistently across personal computers, mobile devices, and screens of virtually any size and resolution. Use Flash Professional CS5 to express your creative vision and attention to detail and design pixel-perfect interactive content with exceptional typography, flexible layouts, and incredibly smooth animation.

Wow your audience and produce engaging rich video content and interactivity that contains expressive, lifelike motion and animation. Import your design from Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended, Illustrator CS5, or InDesign CS5, and then add interactivity with Flash Professional CS5 to bring your work to life. Learn more about Flash Pro CS5 Extended.

Find CS5 upgrade options and Creative Suite 5 deals at the Adobe Store. See CS5 pricing in UK currency at the Adobe UK Store. Visit the Adobe Special Offers page to find the latest deals. Save 80% on Adobe Student Editions. Try before you buy — download a free Adobe Flash Pro CS5 trial.

Adobe Creative Suite 5 Web Premium
Adobe Creative Suite 5 Web Premium allows you to design and develop content for delivery virtually anywhere with integrated tools in the Adobe Flash Platform — Flash Catalyst CS5, Flash Professional CS5, and Flash Builder 4. Leverage dynamic application support and CSS enhancements in Adobe Dreamweaver CS5. Extend Dreamweaver capabilities through integration with Adobe BrowserLab — one of the new Adobe CS Live online services — a fast and accurate solution for cross-browser compatibility testing.

Adobe Creative Suite 5 Web Premium combines Dreamweaver CS5, Flash Catalyst CS5, Flash Professional CS5, Flash Builder 4, Photoshop CS5 Extended, Illustrator CS5, Acrobat 9 Pro, Fireworks CS5, Contribute CS5, Bridge CS5, and Device Central CS5. Download a free CS5 Design Premium 30 day trial.

Sample Flash Pro CS3 And Flash Pro CS4 Training Videos From lynda.com - Plus Discount Coupon

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Free Flash CS4 Video - Understanding The New Tween Model
One of the biggest changes in Flash CS4 is the motion tween model, which speeds up the animation process by eliminating the need to create end keyframes. Todd Perkins shows you how to animate an object’s Alpha property using the motion tween’s new behavior.

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Free Flash CS4 Video - Using 3D Tools
The 3D tools in Flash CS4 allow you to mimic 3D effects with two-dimensional artwork. In this movie, Todd Perkins shows you how to move and rotate movie clips in 3 dimensional space along the X, Y and Z axes, adjust the view or camera position and change the vanishing point using the 3D Translation and 3D Rotation tools.

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You can find some free video tutorials at lynda.com for both Flash Pro CS3 and Flash Pro CS4. Here are the names of the videos from the Flash Pro video samples page:

Adobe Flash CS4 Professional Essential Training
Welcome
Understanding what Flash can do
Becoming familiar with the Flash interface
Customizing keyboard shortcuts
Understanding object and merge drawing
Selecting and modifying shapes
Using the Rectangle and Rectangle Primitive tools
Drawing lines

Adobe Flash CS3 Professional Essential Training
Welcome
Creating a new document
Customizing your workspace
Saving workspaces
The improved Pen tool
The Quick Color tools
Selecting content
Manipulating lines and fills

See more specials on our lynda.com training page.

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Photoshop CS3 Extended Essentials will show you how to use Adobe Photoshop CS3 proficiently from the comfort of your own home or office. Lessons are done at your own pace so you can start and stop the video segments at any time. From the basics of selecting colors and elements in photos, to the power of special effects and layering, the Photoshop CS3 tutorials in this training package cover what you need to know to become a Photoshop pro.

Total Training for Creative Suite 2
Adobe Creative Suite 2 From Design to Delivery from Total Training. Step-by-step instruction on how to combine the common tools for Photoshop CS2, InDesign CS2, Illustrator CS2, and GoLive CS2.

Total Training for Photoshop CS2
Learn Adobe Photoshop CS2 from Deke McClelland, with 21 hours of interactive Adobe Photoshop tutorials. Training for real-world situations and additional tips and techniques used by the pros.

Total Training for Dreamweaver 8
Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 training to learn how to efficiently layout, develop and maintain standards-based websites. Dreamweaver tutorials teach you with tips and tricks that can only be learned from an expert user of the software.

Total Training for Flash Professional 8
Learn inside tips for the most useful tools and features of Macromedia Flash Professional 8. Watch Flash tutorials on how to create better designs and author interactive content rich with video, graphics, and animation.

Master's Collection: Total Training for Advanced Flash Professional 8 ActionScript - Plus Free Clips

This latest offering from Total Training targets the more advanced Flash enthusiast among us, although the intermediately experienced will likewise find much value in these tutorials.

Total Training really seemed to respond to both the success of its popular Advanced Flash Professional 8 title and the subsequent outpouring of consumer demand for a title that focused on the more advanced aspects of ActionScript. Spanning over 11 hours of comprehensive training spread over 2 DVD-ROMs, this Total Training series runs on both Windows and Mac OS.

True to their claims of unleashing your creative potential, Total Training for Advanced Flash Professional 8 ActionScript offers advanced tutorials on the industry's most advanced authoring environment for creating interactive websites. You'll get a quick refresher in scripting basics before diving right into how ActionScript works and how best to include it in your applications.

Working through the interactive lessons, you'll tackle the advanced capabilities of ActionScript for looping movie clips, playing sounds and creating menu buttons. And as if that wasn't enough, you'll also learn how to create compelling 2D animations and push the limits of video content.

As always, Total Training offers you an alternative to costly seminars and training manuals. With their tutorials, you can easily learn at your own pace, stopping and starting whenever you need to spend a little more time on a particular topic or when your interest has been piqued by a certain feature. It's the closest you'll get to having your own personal Flash tutor at your beck and call!

Free Video Clip Samples
The following clips are courtesy of Total Training and are all in High Definition (HD). Benefits of HD include a 165% larger screen size for viewing on a computer monitor, crystal-clear image capture to easily read text and fine details, and higher frame rate support for smoother playback.
Using Event Handlers And Layers.
How To Duplicate Multiple Graphics.
How To Embed Fonts In A Flash Movie.
How To Create A Script To Generate Thumbnails.
Working With Text Properties In Flash.


The following are High Definition Flash tutorials courtesy of Total Training. To find out more about this training series, see our Total Training For Flash 8 page.

How To Add Frames In The Timeline Window
In this video clip tutorial you will learn how to add frames to individual elements in Flash, how to insert a frame using the menu in Flash, and how to manoeuver through the timeline window.

This Flash video tutorial clip is in High Definition (HD). Benefits of HD include a 165% larger screen size for viewing on a computer monitor, crystal-clear image capture to easily read text and fine details, and higher frame rate support for smoother playback.
View the How To Add Frames In The Timeline Window video clip.

How To Prepare, Test And Publish A Movie
In this video clip tutorial you will learn how to prepare items in the timeline window before publishing a movie in Flash, how to test a completed movie in Flash, and how to preview a Flash movie in a browser for final testing.

This Flash video tutorial clip is in High Definition (HD). Benefits of HD include a 165% larger screen size for viewing on a computer monitor, crystal-clear image capture to easily read text and fine details, and higher frame rate support for smoother playback.
View the How To Prepare, Test And Publish A Movie video clip.

How To Set A Mute Sound Button
In this video clip tutorial you will learn how to set a mute sound button in Flash, how to use the Behaviors Window to set common actions in Flash, and how to attach an action script to stop all sounds in Flash.

This Flash video tutorial clip is in High Definition (HD). Benefits of HD include a 165% larger screen size for viewing on a computer monitor, crystal-clear image capture to easily read text and fine details, and higher frame rate support for smoother playback.

View the How To Set A Mute Sound Button video clip.



Our Flash Tutorials page has a selection of free video clips courtesy of Total Training. You'll also find links to some great free Dreamweaver tutorials from Pixel2Life, Layers Magazine, and the Macromedia Flash Developer Center.



Web How-To: Planning Flash Projects
Whether you're a grand Flash master or a complete newbie, you need to map out your Flash projects before starting to animate them. Creativepro.com has posted an excerp from "Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Bible." Friom the intro:

"Perhaps you're just learning to create Flash animations. Perhaps you've already mastered the mechanics of Flash. Either way, before you jump willy-nilly into making that flashy Flash-enabled Web site, you need to think about what are its goals and objectives. You need to think about who its audience is and how they will use it. You need to think about how visitors will navigate from one place to another. In other words, you need to plan your project.

"In this excerpt from the "Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Bible," you'll learn what questions to ask and what solutions to propose when creating a Flash project. Along the way you'll pick up tips on what makes a good user interface and how to use Flash's Project Panel."

Read Web How-To: Planning Flash Projects.

Macromedia Flash 8 Bible
Squeeze every last ounce of power from the very latest edition of Macromedia Flash with this enhanced and revised edition of the bestseller. Written by two Flash experts, this user-friendly, in-depth guide is packed with tips, expert tutorials, and hidden tricks you won't find elsewhere.

Animate, script, manipulate data, send customer data to a server, create robust apps — Flash 8 does it all. Now you can too, with this Flash reference at your side.

• Transform your Movie clips with new blend modes, filters, and gradients
• Scale your artwork to perfection with a new nine-slice scaler
• Get better looking text with crystal-clear FlashType font renderer
• Create characters with lip-synching, walk cycles, and atmosphere
• Understand the nuts and bolts of ActionScript code
• Integrate and control video directly in Flash
• Attach and bind data to components for a dynamic Web site
• Work with Dreamweaver®, Fireworks®, ColdFusion®, Director®, and more
• Create a game in a Flash and win
• Make Flash movies for mobile devices
• Bonus CD is loaded with sample files, custom components, and finished examples!

This is a user-friendly, yet in-depth book that appeals to both Web novices and experts , and contains everything you need to know to master the latest version of Flash.

Macromedia Flash 8 Bible - available at Amazon.com (34% off).


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