Advanced Effect Maker has a freeware version at http://www.effectmaker.com/application/download.html If you are willing to code you may use ScriptSWF from http://sswf.sourceforge.net. That's what's free; for 'cheap' try Swish Lite from http://www.swishzone.com/index.php?area=products&product=lite. djn Dave Merrill wrote: > Any recommendations for free or cheap authoring tools for Flash banners, > intro thingies, slide shows, menus etc.? Not full Flash apps, just these > kinds of eye-candy or screen widget kinds of things. -- Dejan Kozina Dolina 346 (TS) - I-34018 Italy tel./fax: +39 040 228 436 - cell.: +39 348 7355 225 http://www.kozina.com/ - e-mail: dejan at kozina.com