It's a quick start guide for people who want to create cool Flash banners in minutes.

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. 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 arrowhead 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.Check the banner here