Flash Developer Center

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Flash in detail

Animation Learning Guide

Explore the many ways to create and control your animations, from motion tweens to ActionScript classes.

Graphic Effects Learning Guide

Apply features like filters and blend modes to enhance the look and feel of your projects.

Components Learning Guide

Reduce your development time and effort by using these Flash Professional building blocks for creating rich interactive applications on the web.

Video Learning Guide for Flash

Dive into this guide to learn best practices about video on the web: key concepts, capturing and encoding video, integrating captions, and embedding video on web pages.

Tutorials

Designing for a multi-device, multi-resolution world

Joseph Labrecque (Nov 26, 2012)

Learn how to enable a multi-screen layout for a Flash-based game menu to work across devices of varying screen resolutions seamlessly.

Optimizing Flash performance

Keith Gladstien (Oct 22, 2012)

Learn best practices to optimize Flash animations and applications.

Using the Adobe Flash Sprite Sheet Generator

Chris Georgenes (May 07, 2012)

Discover how to convert a looping animation into a sprite sheet using the Flash Sprite Sheet Generator.

CreateJS Developer Center

(Apr 23, 2012)

Toolkit for CreateJS exports animated assets to HTML5, including tweens, vector shapes, and symbols. Create and export animated assets to HTML5 in one click.

Samples and templates

ActionScript 3 samples for Flash Professional CS5

Explore these ActionScript 3 samples demonstrating features common in Flash Professional development, including 3D, masking, transition effects, and interactivity.