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This flash tutorial shows you how to create a shape tween. To demonstrate this Flash feature, we’ll tween an existing circle into a square. By Douglas Scott

This Flash eLearning lesson shows you how to make Flash development more convenient by grouping objects. We’ll show you how to group text and a shape, and show how these items can be accessed after they have been grouped. By Douglas Scott

This Flash video tutorial introduces you to how to modify lines and shapes by adjusting Flash tools and properties. Here you can see that we’ve already drawn a few lines, shapes, and a filled shape. By Douglas Scott

This Flash tutorial shows you the difference between drawings created as strokes and fills, and drawings created as objects. These differences will be illustrated by showing how the two different types of drawings interact with each other. By Douglas Scott

This Flash tutorial introduces you to the oval and rectangle tools, which enable you to easily create geometric shapes, such as ovals, circles, rectangles, and squares.

By Douglas Scott

Flash tutorial shows you how to change the color of fills using the Paint Bucket Tool. First we’ll change the color of two fills, then we’ll change the background of the fills without changing the color within the fills. By Douglas Scott

This Flash tutorial introduces you to the Flash Pencil Tool, which enables you to create freehand line drawings. With the Flash pencil tool, you can select the Straighten, Smooth, or Ink drawing modes to help you determine how lines are drawn. In this tutorial, you will draw a triangle using each mode to help you become more familiar with each one. By Douglas Scott

This Flash tutorial shows you how to use the Selection Tool to modify shapes and lines, and shows you how to use the Subselection Tool to adjust anchor points on a shape. By Douglas Scott

This Flash tutorial shows you how to use Shape Hints. If you’ve used shape tweening before, you may already know that shapes do not always morph in a way that you intend. By Douglas Scott

This Flash video tutorial shows you how to create and edit Flash gradients. We’ll first create two types of gradients…linear and radial. Then we’ll use the Gradient Transform Tool and its various options to modify the gradient. Gradients can be created by modifying a fill. By Douglas Scott

This Flash tutorial shows you how to create frame-based animations and how to use the Reverse Frames feature. It’s possible to create animations in Flash using tweening, or even ActionScript, but you also have the option of using individual frames. In this tutorial, we’ll use frame-based animation to animate the word “ANIMATE”. By Douglas Scott

Part 1. Adobe CS5 Bridge, introduction. By EscapeTutorPS