SWF Easy is a Flash banner maker suitable for both beginners & experts. For beginners, it provides multi-style templates, hundreds of resources, 60+ animation effects with which you can get a well-designed Flash banner by clicks. For experts, it provides full customization features, advanced drawing and editing tools, and supports Action Script, which totally exceed the common online banner generators. This Quick Start Guide aims to provide an overview of the program interface and easy steps for you to start up.
1. Choose a Banner Template
Run the program and a “New from Template” dialog pops up. Click “Banner” to start our job.
Look through the banner templates, which can be filtered by themes, sizes and colors. Choose your favorite one and click “OK” to open it.
In this tutorial, we choose the 729*80 Green template in Technology category.
2. Modify Banner Text
Text is usually added to a main scene (visit here to learn more about scenes). So check the main scenes one by one to find the text to be modified. Double click the text block to enter text editing mode, indicated as below, then change the text to whatever you want.
Text properties, such as font face, font size, color, bold, align, etc., can be modified in the Format properties panel.
In this tutorial, we change the second line of the text to “Quick Start Guide for Sothink SWF Easy”, and set font as “Verdana”, size “22”, “bold” in the Format panel.
3. Replace Graphics
The graphic can be of the following five types: shape, image, movie clip, button and group (combination of the first four types). The five types can be replaced with each other freely. Select graphic A on the stage, for example, mouse over graphic B in the Resource panel (even A and B are of different types), and the cursor will turn to “” automatically. Click to replace A with B, and all the animation effects of A are maintained to B.
In this tutorial, we’d like to replace the following graphic with another one.
We search “flower” in Resource library and find a suitable graphic “leaves3.gls” for my banner.
Click the original graphic on the stage first, mouse over “leaves3.gls”, then click to finish the replacement.
4. Add URL Address for Your Banner
To add a URL for your banner, go to the Scene Properties panel, and enter the URL address and Target. Check “Apply to all scenes” because a banner normally goes to one landing page.
In this tutorial, we enter http://www.sothink.com in URL, target “_blank” and check “Apple to all scenes”.
5. Preview
See? We get a customized Flash banner only by a few clicks:
Now we are clear on how to create a Flash banner with templates.
