Top Notch Tutorials: How to Create Attractive Flash Preloaders
Yesterday we shared with you a collection of creative Flash preloaders that caught our attention. Today you’re going to learn how to create a Flash Preloader yourself. We’ve gathered the best tutorials out there that will teach you how to create your own attractive preloader from scratch.
We’ll start with an awesome tutorial written by Lee Brimelow who, you already know, is a Platform Evangelist at Adobe, and an authority in the Flash, Flex and Air community.
On the Beyond Venture Design website we found two great step-by-step tutorials written by FlashFridge team that teach you how to create simple preloaders in no time.
ExtremeDesignStudio aka EDS has come up with two ideas for preloaders: using a circular animation and one using neon glow effect, that are pretty nice. The tutorials for these two Flash preloaders are very organized so if you follow the steps as written, you can’t fail.
FlashExplained has got one tutorial on how to create a Flash preloader using an image. You’ll learn how to personalize the preloader by using a photo that fits better to the idea of your website.
jOOO posted on FlashJourney a simple tutorial about Flash preloaders created in AS3. Although the preloader is not very complex, I sure appreciated the creative design.
This High Tech Preloader tutorial from BlogWatts is pretty explanatory. Nice design and easy to create.
kirupa doesn’t lack creativity and originality. You should definitely check out his tutorials.
chibidesign – With this tutorial you can create simple and effective preloader. This one is pretty cool.
We can also recommend Flash Essential, with a simple AS3 preloader tutorial, Republic of Code where you can find a tutorial on creating a Classic Filling Preloader in Flash, written by LearnFlash, and Erik Hallander’s tutorial on how to create a customizable gradient circle loader/ animation for AS3. He’s got quite a few nice preloaders on his blog where we’ve found this tutorial, so you should check it out.
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