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Build a Creative “Swirl Animated Menu” with Flash CS4

1. July 2009

Flash it's a powerful application and can be really complex, but even beginners can create a cool menu for demonstration or for use in a personal site. The menu that we will create is simple, but the swirl animation is something that you don't see everywhere, for that I've decided to explain one way to make an animation of growing swirls without any Action Script code.You will also learn how to import artwork from illustrator where I've pre-made the graphics, the work is very simple and the result will be very cool.

SWFObject and Best Practice Implementation

29. June 2009

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SWFObject and Best Practice Implementation

With more and more full screen Flash web sites appearing on the internet, it's important to understand how to properly embed the Flash movie in the browser window. In this tutorial we will cover best practice embedding of SWF movies using SWFObject with a custom function for adding browser scrollbars for smaller browser windows.

Create a 3D Bowling Game with JiglibFlash and Papervision 3D

24. June 2009

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Possibly the hottest thing to hit the Flash community since the advent of several excellent 3D engines is the recent debut of 3D physics engines. Here we'll examine a way of using one of the more popular 3D engines, JiglibFlash, in conjunction with the prominent 3D engine Papervision3D to create a bowling game.

Build a Dynamic Accordion Menu in Flash CS4 with ActionScript 3.0 and XML

17. June 2009

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In this tutorial you will learn how to build an accordion style menu from scratch that can be configured by using an external file. The menu items can bet totally configured in XML with label and can load text, image or swf on it's open "state". Just follow the tutorial, it's quite simple. At the end you will see a secon example achieved by this procedure.

Create Random Torn Photos with Actionscript 3.0

10. June 2009

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Create Random Torn Photos with Actionscript 3.0

One of the most powerful sets of classes in ActionScript 3 revolve around BitmapData and pixel manipulation. In this tutorial we are going to look at dynamically creating a photo with torn edges by compositing several images together.

Create real water effects with Flash CS4 & ActionScript 3.0

2. June 2009

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Create real water effects with Flash CS4 & ActionScript 3.0

In this Flash CS4 tutorial you will learn a advanced technique called perlinNoise to create a realistic water effect into any image. We will show you how to apply it in two different situations, one in a river, creating the water effect in whole image, and the other one in a waterfall using a more complex [...]

Create Cool Line Effects using Actionscript 3.0 in Flash CS4 or Flex Builder 3

18. May 2009

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Create Cool Line Effects using Actionscript 3.0 in Flash CS4 or Flex Builder 3

In this tutorial, you will learn the basics of architecting a simple Line Effect, using Flash CS4 or Flex Builder 3. We try to cover the basics on the simplest way, so everyone will be able to step in the scripted animation with actionscript 3.0. The fact of using only code to generate animation and effects, will result on a very small file size, which will improve the loading performance on the browser and enables a better interactivity experience.

Creating a Flash Lite Application with Flash CS4 and Actionscript 2.0

27. April 2009

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Creating a Flash Lite Application with Flash CS4 and Actionscript 2.0

Flash Lite runtime is optimized for small electronic devices, mainly for mobile phones. As the name suggests, it’s lighter than the normal Adobe Flash Platform. It emphasizes on low CPU usage, file size and memory usage. You can create all sorts of content with Flash Lite, for example games, animated screensavers, wallpapers, and maps. In this tutorial I’ll teach you how to create your very own Flash Lite application for a mobile phone! The application will send an email to an address you specify.

Learn How-to Create Flash Components using Actionscript 3.0, XML and Flickr API

22. April 2009

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Learn How-to Create Flash Components using Actionscript 3.0, XML and Flickr API

This tutorial will allow you to learn to create custom Flash Components using Actionscript 3.0. I have opted an image gallery component where we would show thumbnails of various images and user could see respective enlarged image by clicking any of the thumbnail. I have used FlickR image search to show various images using this component.

Saving User Generated Imagery from an AIR Application Using the JPG and PNG Encoder Classes and Flash CS4

1. April 2009

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Saving User Generated Imagery from an AIR Application Using the JPG and PNG Encoder Classes and Flash CS4

While anyone with an intimate knowledge of encoding bits of information can write their own JPG or PNG encoder, isn't it great to know that Adobe already provides classes to take care of it?

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Build a Creative “Swirl Animated Menu” with Flash CS4

SWFObject and Best Practice Implementation

Create a 3D Bowling Game with JiglibFlash and Papervision 3D

Build a Dynamic Accordion Menu in Flash CS4 with ActionScript 3.0 and XML

Create Random Torn Photos with Actionscript 3.0

Create real water effects with Flash CS4 & ActionScript 3.0

Create Cool Line Effects using Actionscript 3.0 in Flash CS4 or Flex Builder 3

Creating a Flash Lite Application with Flash CS4 and Actionscript 2.0

Learn How-to Create Flash Components using Actionscript 3.0, XML and Flickr API

Saving User Generated Imagery from an AIR Application Using the JPG and PNG Encoder Classes and Flash CS4

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