This tutorial walks you step by step through a popular Flash text animation. Ken creates a wave-like motion in which each letter of a phrase grows and becomes almost transparent, and then shrinks back down. There are actions that perform this function, and you can purchase Flash add-ons that do it as well, but Ken shows you how to do it on your own. This Flash text animation looks great on an intro page, or at the beginning of a Flash movie.

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Adobe Flash gives you a nice set of tools for creating professional looking drawings. If you don’t have another vector based program, Flash can be used as your drawing software package. Vector graphics allow for scalable art and Flash’s vector tools give even a novice a chance to create attractive, hand-drawn graphics. The technique used in this episode allows even the most un-artistic user to produce top quality clipart or comic book style images, with minimal effort. This how to article takes you step by step to draw a cartoon type image. You’ll learn how to use Adobe Flash (which used to be Macromedia Flash) to add custom art to your Flash animation.

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