In the world of Flash design and development, there is very little that gives me as much giddy pleasure as playing around with particle effects. Over the next few blog posts, I plan to do a few tutorials relating to particle effects, but before I did so, I wanted to lay a little bit of a foundation and talk about the basic idea behind these effects.

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Want to cut your Flash development time in half?

If you answered yes, then you've come to the wrong place. On the other hand, if you'd like to moderately improve your efficiency and save yourself a little time, then it would be well worth your time to learn a few keyboard shortcuts that will save you many a mouse click. Below is a list of some of the keyboard shortcuts that I use most often. It may be helpful to print these out and thumbtack them to your wall.

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