Using this thoroughly explained, detailed flash lesson, you will see how to create trendy photo shooting animation in flash using some special flash tips and tricks. You don't have to use action script code to make this lesson. You can use this animation for any photo presentation, for some fancy banner... Using this lesson, you will also learn how to import any photos into a flash stage, how to animate it, aligne it with the background and much much more! Let's go!



Step 1

First, download photos that we will use for this photo shooting!



Step 2

Create a new flash document. Press Ctrl+J key on the keyboard (Document Properties) and set the width of your document to 350 pixels and the height to 239 pixels. Select white as background color. Set your Flash movie's frame rate to 32 and click ok.



Step 3

Call the current layer photo 1. Double-click on its default name (Layer 1) to change it. Press Enter once you have typed in the new name!

Step 4

Choose File > Import > Import to Library. In the file explorer window that appears, find a five photos and Shift-click to select them all. Then click open. If you now open your flash library (Ctrl+L key) you will see five photos that you just imported. See the picture below.



Step 5

Select the Selection Tool (V) and using the drag and drop technique, move the first photo from the Library on the stage!

Step 6

While the image is still selected, go to the Align Panel (Ctrl+K) and do the following:

1. Make sure that the Align/Distribute to Stage button is turned on,
2. Click on the Align horizontal center button and
3. Click the Align vertical center button.



Step 7

After that, while the photo is still selected, press F8 key (Convert to Symbol) to convert it into a Movie Clip Symbol.



Step 8

Click now on frame 5,10 and 15 and press F6 key.

Step 9

While you're still on frame 15, select the Selection Tool (V) and click once on the photo to select it. Then, go to the Properties Panel (Ctrl+F3) below the stage. On the right, you will see the Color menu. Select Advanced in it, click on Settings button and make the adjustments as follow:



Repeat this process also for frame 1.

Step 10

Right-click anywhere on the gray area between frame 1 and 5 and frame 10 and 15 on the timeline and choose Create Motion Tween from the menu that appears.



Step 11

Create a new layer above the layer photo 1 and name it photo 2.

Step 12

Click now on frame 12 of layer photo 2 and press F6 key. While you're still on frame 12, move the second photo from the library on the stage using the Selection Tool (V). After that, repeat steps 6 and 7.

Step 13

Click now on frame 17 and 22 and press F6 key. While you're still on frame 22, repeat step 9. Do this also for frame 12.

Step 14

Right-click anywhere on the gray area between frame 12 and 17 and frame 17 and 22 on the timeline and choose Create Motion Tween from the menu that appears.

We're done now with the first two photos.

Repeat this process also for every other photos.

Enjoy!

Download source file (.fla)