Thanks to a generous donation, I’ve picked up a much nicer video capture application. This video tutorial shows how to translate Photoshop graphics into Actionscript using the AS3 drawing API. The resulting SWF file size is minuscule: from a 100kb Photoshop-to-Flash import to a 5kb file with some coding. I start with the most basic aspects and work up to the more complex: from a basic rectangle, to patterns from Photoshop, to complex gradients.

I’m pretty happy with this new software, so I’ll try to post more videos. Still working on getting better resolution out of the video host though…