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FIVe3D : Flash Vector 3D Animation Classes

FIVe3D is an open source code for creating vector-based 3D animations with Flash.

These Flash animation classes are built with AS3 and has the following features:

• Back face culling
• Flat shading
• Z-sorting
• Space drawing functions
• Bitmap3D class
• Video3D class
• Sprite 2D class
• Letter spacing
• Text width

Tip:

FIVe3D considers a text as a collection of letters, each letter being a vector shape. To draw these vector shapes, drawing instructions are saved in a typography file.

There is free tool at the website which enables you to create typography files.

Hulk Eyes Effect - Photoshop Tutorial paulo

A tutorial to teach you how to do the Banner transforming to Hulk eyes.



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15 Tools to Help You Develop Faster Web Pages

If you’re concerned about your web pages’ speed or want to make sure you’re in tip-top shape before starting or launching a project, here’s a few useful, free tools to help you create and sustain high-performance web applications.

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Dimp - Lets You Move Objects in Flash Video

DimP, a direct manipulation video player, lets users drag items on the video screen to move forward and back instead of just via a scroll bar on the bottom of the video. This is not only more fun, but it also allows users to scroll through video to where they want to be “at least two times faster

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Any one can build an ORKUT Social Application!!!

So, You wanna create an Orkut application ehhe??? Well i wont provide any written or video tutorial ! ! ! I dont have to, because the great google developer have made it. All I like to do is share this with you

Doll face

An amazing piece of work. I can't take my eyes of it. I really like to share this one with you. 4 min, more worth watching.

A machine with a doll face mimics images on television screen in search of a satisfactory visage. Doll Face presents a visual account of desires misplaced and identities fractured by our technological extension into the future.

SIMPLE PHOTOSHOP PHOTO EFFECT

MAKE A LITTLE GRUNGE STYLE PHOTO USING PHOTOSHOP.

Inspiration- byroglyphics

Thanks to Byroglyphics.

Download embedded swf flash file without any browser addon or software

You may often see some cool animations or graphics across the web. When you right click and try to save it, you couldn't. They are flash files. So what is the solution. Of course there are number of browser addons and softwares out there. But I think this is a much better trick to download the swf.

• First open the source of the web page where the flash file you want to download is located (Ctrl + U in Firefox).
• Now press Ctrl + F.
• Type .swf
• And thats it, you got the file name of the flash swf file.
• Now all you have to do is copy the file name and paste them right after the url of the webpage.
• The url must not include the file name or any parameter of the web page. For eg:- If you have a swf file flash.swf in the url
  http://www.example.com/php-example/index.php?page=10 then you may have to clear everything after http://www.example.com/php-example/ and add flash.swf
• Now the final url to download the swf looks like http://www.example.com/php-example/flash.swf
• Now run this url. Select File->Save Page as
• Thats it, you are done!!!
• This method will not work where the flash file is driven from an external data souce like xml.
  

Now, think you want to extract a particular image from that flash file. Its easy when you have flash decompilers around.

Inspiration- Justin

Justin Maller has just released his new portfolio at superlover.com.au/ with some very really cool designs.

Make an Ugly women beautiful using photoshop

Here is a technique on how to make an ugly looking lady beautiful.

Make Popart Photos Using Adobe Photoshop

In this video tutorial provided by Luv2Help.com we will show you how to change your photos into pop art style images using Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Flash Tutorial -- Basic animation.

This tutorial quickly goes over onion skinning, layers, embedded animations, motion tweens and finally shape tweens.

This isn't an in depth tutorial, but hopefully it might make things a bit easier for you.

Flash in a flash for begginers

Following is a series of video tutorials from Adobe TV. Here, Host John Schuman explains Flash Fundamentals in a flash





Animation





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Gritty Photo Effect in Photoshop CS3 - Tutorial

Create the cool gritty effect with regular photographs using Photoshop CS3 and a little know-how. Colin Smith walks you through one of the most popular photo techniques of today.

Awesome designs by abduzeedo.

Awesome designs by abduzeedo. If this cannot be called 'awesome', then what can!!!
Great use of colors. Thats the success.

PDF to merge with Flash

TechCrunch says:

At the same time Adobe is launching Acrobat.com, it is releasing Acrobat 9—a major upgrade to one of its anchor desktop apps. the big news here is that for the first time, Adobe’s PDF-creating desktop software will supports Flash. So people can now create documents with embedded Flash movies from YouTube, or developers can design entire new skins for electronic documents using Adobe’s Flex framework—the same programming tool they use to create Web applications.

PDF documents made with Acrobat 9 also support collaboration among multiple authors and reviewers over the Internet, making them connected documents. Best of all, they no longer take forever to load. The next step is for Adobe to make it easy to turn any PDF into a Web page, and vice versa.

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CSS Gradient Text Effect

Inspired by webdesignerwall's CSS Gradient Text Effect. I developed something I think might be useful for the common. Using his CSS, I developed this

Wizard

This technique may be very useful when you want to create fancy headings without rendering each heading with Photoshop? Here is a simple CSS trick to show you how to create gradient text effect with a PNG image (pure CSS, no Javascript or Flash).

Literally, you can apply this trick on any solid background color (as long your gradient color is the same as your background color).

Pattern / Texture

You can also apply this trick with a tile background image. Look, here is an example of zebra pattern. So, be creative!

All you have to do is

• Type in your text
• Copy the code at top
• Paste them anywhere below head tag.
• Now copy the code found in the text area below the text font you want
• And paste it in you site anywhere below body tag where you want them to appear.
  

Use the easy Wizard


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