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Understanding Date(): Making a Calendar in AS3

September 15, 2011 Tutorial Photoshop No comments

Today we’ll build a fully functional calendar widget using AS3. It’s not rocket science, just an excellent example of using the Date class, which can handle all the complexity of extracting times, dates, months and years. We are also going to use some Flash components, and make sure that this calendar is portable to Flash Builder, FlashDevelop, and so on.

Create an Animated Car Banner using Flash CS5

September 11, 2011 Tutorial Photoshop No comments

In this Tutorial, you will learn how to create an animated banner using Flash CS5. You will learn how to create a car moving on a road with its tires spinning.

Quick Tip: The Singleton Pattern

September 10, 2011 Tutorial Photoshop No comments

In this Quick Tip we are going to talk about the Singleton design pattern and how it can help you to optimize your code when you need exactly one instance of a class.

How to make an animated Gif with captain amercia

September 05, 2011 Tutorial Photoshop No comments

In this flash Tutorial for beginners, we will take a look at how to make a animated gif with one of my favorite marrvel comic characters, Captain America. You can of course repeat this Tutorial with any of your favourite comic characters from popular series such as Bleach, Naruto etc.

Flash AS3 Tutorial Rolling Newspaper Effect

August 30, 2011 Tutorial Photoshop No comments

his is the last part of our Flash 3D rotations Tutorial. We will conclude with implementation of newspaper rotation that can be seen in our WordPress 3D Banner rotator. Please check other chapters of our Tutorial to see how implementation of 3D engine is done.

Create a Nifty Polaroid Photo Viewer With Flash and Photoshop

August 22, 2011 Tutorial Blog No comments

Ever wanted to make a manageable and beautiful photo viewer app? In this Tutorial, I’ll show you how to design and code a nifty Polaroid photo viewer, focusing on the design and tweening.

Quick Tip: Depth Management With the Display List in AS3

August 22, 2011 Tutorial Blog No comments

Moving items to top and bottom of the display list can be very useful when developing games and applications. Learn to easily manage depth using this QuickTip.

Create a Lytro-Esque Dynamically-Focused Photo in Flash

August 21, 2011 Tutorial Blog No comments

In this Tutorial, I’ll show you how to mimic the photos created by the Lytro camera. The end result will allow you to create your own dynamic and interesting pictures to display on the web, allowing viewers to alter the focal point! No special camera required — you can use any camera which allows manual focusing (which includes most phone cameras).

How to make a tiled background with Flash

August 13, 2011 Tutorial Blog No comments

Here is a flash Tutorial for beginners that teaches you on how to make a seamless background using Flash. It is useful for making images or for websites. Have fun learning how to create a titled background.