This leading Adobe Flash alternative can edit SWF or create professional Flash animations from scratch. It is compatible with Windows 7; fully supports AS 3.0; supports applying plenty of built-in animated effects to Flash movie elements; provides quick-start templates to make Flash Albums, Banners, Navigation Buttons and Slide Shows easily.

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Sothink SWF Quicker, in the latest V5.0, provides same vector editing capability with Adobe Flash, which will best meet Flash designers’ drawing needs. The functionalities of the Paint Bucket, Subselection and Eyedropper tools are greatly enhanced. What’s more, the align function is also improved.

You can get all the super functions with a fraction of Adobe Flash’s full price. Definitely design rich professional Flash movies with all the features at a price you can afford.… So, please have a try!

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SWF Quicker is the leading Flash SWF editor. It fully supports Flash CS4 (V10) and AS 3.0; offers seven popular Flash filters for you to add visual animating effects to texts, buttons and movie clips; supports applying plenty of built-in animated effects to Flash movie elements; provides quick-start templates to make Flash Albums, Banners, Navigation Buttons and Slide Shows easily…

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Through from my eyes, the new Sothink SWF Quicker V4.7 is more powerful than previous versions. It adds compatibility for the latest Microsoft operating system, which will bring users more security. What’s more, it supports exporting movies to Flash Lite 2.0, 2.1 and 3.0 now.

To offer users better usability for easy-drawing, Sothink SWF Quicker V4.7 greatly enhanced the Pen, Subselection and Ink Bottle tools. I’m sure you will find totally new and handy drawing experience in this latest version.

It is for sure that the SWF Quicker team will update with more features as they find them. So you can tell us here or contact support@sothink.com if you find what SWF Quicker is still missing. We’ll be keeping an eye out for future developments. Please concern on Sothink Blog to get the first-hand information!

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As the leading Flash SWF editor in the market, Sothink SWF Quicker always keeps up with the latest technical updates in the Flash area. It is the best Flash animation editor to edit SWF files or create Flash animations from scratch. Sothink SWF Quicker supports applying plenty of built-in animated effects to Flash movie elements; provides quick-start templates to make Flash Albums, Banners, Navigation Buttons and Slide Shows easily. This Flash animation maker also allows you to export Flash movies to SWF, EXE, GIF, or AVI, which helps you to enjoy colorful Flash arts more conveniently.

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When editing a SWF of Flash CS3 (V9) or Flash CS4 (V10), you can edit almost all elements of the SWF file, such as adding or changing texts and images, assigning new URL, adding ActionScript to control the animation more precisely, etc. The latest version (V4.5) of Sothink SWF Quicker supports ActionScript 3.0. And in the previous version, it has supported ActionScript 1.0 and 2.0 already. Besides this, you can find better Operating System compatibility in Sothink SWF Quicker V4.5, that is, it begins to support Windows Vista 64-bit now. I’m sure all of this will bring you totally new Flash creating and editing experience.

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If you only grasp basic Flash knowledge, or know nothing about ActionScript, it may be difficult for you to realize this Flash effect. Then you can turn to some good tool for help. In this tutorial, I will show you a simple way to get this Flash blur effect without adopting any ActionScript.

The tool used in this tutorial is Sothink SWF Quicker V4.0. People interested can go to http://www.sothink.com/product/swfquicker/index.htm to download it.

The final Flash blur effect is as follows:

Please see the following step-by-step tutorial.

Preparation:
Download the images used in this tutorial.

Step 1 Add Flash Blur Filter Effect for the First Image
1. Launch Sothink SWF Quicker V4.0.
2. Choose File -> New -> New Movie to create a new blank document. And then go to the Properties panel, and set the movie properties as follows:

3. Choose File -> Import to Library, and browse to import the images I provided for this sample. Now in the Library panel, you’ll see this:

4. Drag the “1.jpg” image from the library to the stage.
5. While the image is still selected, go to the Transform panel, and set its X, Y values to 175, 130, as follows:

6. On the stage, right-click the image and select Convert to Symbol from the pop-up menu. And then choose “Movie Clip” in the newly opened dialog to convert this image to a movie clip symbol.

7. Click on frame 10 of layer1, and press F6 to insert a keyframe. After that click on frame 20 and press F6 again.
8. While you’re still on frame 20, select the image and open the Filter panel. Now click the Add Filter button and select Blur in the pop-up menu. And then you can set the options for the Blur filter as follows:

9. Go back to frame 10 and open the Properties Panel, and then choose Motion in the Tween drop down list. Now the timeline is displayed as follows:

Step 2 Add Flash Blur Filter Effect for the Second Image
1. Insert a new layer (layer 2) in the timeline.
2. Click on the frame 15 of layer 2 and press F6 to insert a keyframe.
3. Drag 2.jpg from the library to the stage. While the image is still selected, go to the Transform panel, and set its X, Y values to 175, 130.
4. Now convert the image to a movie clip symbol. (Repeat the 6th operation of step 1)
5. After that click on frames 25, 35 and 45 of layer 2 and respectively press F6. Now the timeline is displayed as follows:

6. Go back to the frame 15 of layer 2, select the image and apply Blur filter for it. (Repeat the 8th operation of step 1, and set same properties for the Blur filter.)
7. Select again the frame 15 and open the Properties Panel, and then choose Motion in the Tween drop down list.
8. Click on frame 45, select the image and apply Blur filter for it. (Repeat the 8th operation of step 1, and set same properties for the Blur filter.)
9. Go back to frame 35, open the Properties Panel, and then choose Motion in the Tween drop down list. See the current timeline:

Step 3 Smoothly Transit Back to the First Image
1. Insert a new layer (layer 3) in the timeline.
2. Click on frame 40 of layer 3 and press F6 to insert a keyframe.
3. Drag 1.jpg from the library to the stage. While the image is still selected, go to the Transform panel, and set its X, Y values to 175, 130.
4. Now go back to the frame 40, select the image and convert it to a movie clip symbol. (Repeat the 6th operation of step 1)
5. Click on frame 50 of layer 3 and press F6.
6. Go to the frame 40, select the image and apply Blur filter for it. (Repeat the 8th operation of step 1, and set same properties for the Blur filter.)
7. Select frame 40, open the Properties Panel, and then choose Motion in the Tween drop down list. See the current timeline:

Step 4 Preview Your Movie
1. Press Ctrl + Enter in your keyboard to preview the movie, now you will get the effect shown in the beginning of this tutorial.

Have a try!

Flash Filters let you add interesting visual effects to text, buttons, and movie clips. One magic effect in Sothink SWF Quicker 4.0 is that you can animate the filters.

The current available filters in Sothink SWF Quicker 4.0 are Bevel effect, Drop Shadow, Glow, Flash Blur, Gradient Glow, Gradient Blur and Adjust Color.

You can apply multiple filters for one object to experiment with a combined effect. The options of the applied filter can be changed at any time.

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 The figure below shows the difference of various filter effect:

Interested Flash Filters users can see more filter samples made by Sothink SWF Quicker 4.0.

   View Glow Slide Show Sample                View Blur Painting Card Sample

Sothink Quicker 4.0 also bolds many brilliant features, such as it fully supports importing or creating the movies of Flash 8 version; can export the movie as Animated GIF file and Windows AVI video; provides Object Snapping, Pixel Snapping and Snap Alignment to align objects. View full new features of this SWF editor >>

As a Flash Animation Maker, SWF Quicker can create Flash games, Flash websites, Tween animations, Interactivity animations, Flash Albums, Flash filter effects, text effects, slide shows, etc; as a Flash Editor, it can import and edit Flash SWF and all its elements such as adding or modifying texts, replacing shapes or sounds, assigning links, etc in the Flash movies.

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Sothink SWF Easy can help to create animated greeting card. With the built-in resources, users can easily and quickly make Flash greeting card of their own. Besides exporting as SWF file, Sothink SWF Easy 6.1 can also export animated artwork as GIF file and AVI file. Download this GIF Animator now and experience it!

So, if you are looking for some Valentine software that can easily and quickly create animated greeting card of SWF, GIF or AVI format, Sothink SWF Easy, also known as Flash maker and GIF Animator, is a great choice.

Below is a simple tutorial about Making Valentine Greeting Card with Sothink SWF Easy 6.1:

It is very easy to create an animated Valentine’s card with SWF Easy. Let’s launch Sothink SWF Easy 6.1 and begin the creation.

Step 1: Set Main Movie’s Properties.

After launching SWF Easy, go to Properties panel of Main Movie. Set both Width and Height as 500.

Step 2: Search Greeting Card from Resources.

Go to Resource panel, input “greeting” in the blank and click Search button. Then, all the resources relative with “greeting” will list in the panel. Select “kiss.glm” from the list and double click it to add it onto the canvas.

Step 3: Edit the Card.

Select the card on the canvas, and go to Properties panel. Under the Properties panel of the greeting card, click button Advanced to open dialog Advanced.

Under tab Text, click button Edit Text to change the text on the card.

After clicking button Edit Text, it appears dialog Edit Text. Here you can change text and do some other text setting. For Valentine, this time we input text “Happy Valentine’s Day!”. Then click button OK to save the changes.

You may also edit the shapes and colors of the card through dialog Advanced. And after edit it, on the canvas you may add some elements to make the Valentine’s card more stylish. The sample we made is added text and text effects.

Step 4: Export Movie as GIF file.

Usually users make Flash animation and export is as SWF file. Now Sothink SWF Easy 6.1 supports exporting Flash animation as GIF and AVI files. If you need an animated Greeting card of GIF format, you may easily get it.

Go to Toolbar on the top of the program. Click button Export. It pops up a list for you to choose exporting ways. Here you select Export Movie to choose exporting formats.

After selecting Export Movie, it appears dialog Export for you specifying exporting format. In the dialog, click the drop-down arrow besides “Save as type” and select “Animated GIF” from the list.

Then it pops up dialog GIF Settings. Here you may just click button OK to save the default settings. Or you may also changes the Width and Height of the GIF which will be exported.

Wish the animated Valentine’s card brings you and your sweetheart happiness. Happy Valentine’s Day!

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