Photshop Tutorials Good, Flash...not so Good

When I first used Photoshop, like most people, I was pretty intimidated. Sure, I could do the common tasks that are common to most paint programs, but I had no idea how to create some of the exciting new graphics that were suddenly popping up all over the web. Lucky for me, the web was full of tutorials teaching everything from basic layers to more complex techniques, and after going through a few of them, I began to learn how to unleash the true power of Photoshop. If I wanted to learn how to create a cool button, I simply searched, "Photoshop Cool Button Tutorial." It was that easy.

Recently, I began fooling around with Flash. After my success with Photoshop tutorials, I searched for some Flash ones to help me navigate this complex program. Unfortunately, most of the tutorials I found were designed for the intermediate/advanced user, and very few were created for beginners like me. Since then, I've conquered some of the most basic tasks and searched again for some tutorials to advance my education only to once again be left frustrated by the advanced technical jargon that exists in almost every flash tutorial out there. I found even the Adobe website itself to be very little help. This experience has inspired me to eventually create some user-friendly flash tutorials tailored for beginners. The first one I intent to create is a "Flash Slideshow" tutorial and my goal is to hopefully create a situation where in the future, when the term "Flash Tutorials" is searched in Google, it will return some actual FREE tutorials as opposed to just software companies offering alternative Flash programs.