Flash, photography and what ever else I do in my every day life…
I just got my new ActionScript 3.0 book.
This book was reviewed by Lee Brimelow on theFlashBlog.com and I thought I should try it because I’m still trying to learn AS 3.0
From what I see right now the book is great! It is full-color and the code looks real 
So… thanks Lee for letting us know about this book 
Here you have an interview with Lee Brimelow on the London on AIR tour
The interview was taken by Simon Shand and Lawrence Job from the gotoAndLearn forums… Enjoy!!
I just found out that you can upload videos to flickr if you have a pro account…
A lot of people said it’s a bad idea and that they don’t want video on flickr, but if you ask me, it’s a very great idea
The only problem is that you have a 90 seconds limit or 150 MB 
Here you have a video example:
Just got back from Bucharest… Still have to accommodate with the life in the “Big City” because in a few months I will move there…
But I had some fun and I made some pictures
Here is the last one… I shoot it last night in Herastrau Park
Today I just got myself a new toy
It’s a Wacom Bamboo A6 Wide
I believe John Arnold from PhotoWalkthrough.com is the one who inspired me to get one (by the way… I love his tutorials)
It’s great… I can’t wait to start using it
Today I got myself a canon printer
I did some prints and they are looking great!!! The format is 10×15 (I know that a small size photo) but for this price it’s perfect!
It’s a canon Selphy CP740
It has a lot of ways to print the images… you can print them from your camera or from a memory card (MS, SD, CF) or from a computer.
As you can see it has a little screen where you can see the images and setup the print format and change other options like… date, red eye and stuff like that.
I did an experiment with the Blur Filter in AS 2.0 and I thought it will be great to share this little code
I used MC Tween to animate this
Here is the code:
#include "mc_tween2.as" import flash.filters.BlurFilter; theButton.xBlurTo(11, 3, 1); theButton.onRollOver = function() { this.xBlurTo(0, 3, 2); } theButton.onRollOut = function() { this.xBlurTo(11, 3, 2); } theButton.onRelease = function() { this.xBlurTo(110, 3, 2); this.alphaTo(0, 1, "linear"); this.enabled = false; }
Something like this can be used for some Enter Site button or some image transmission… or whatever pops to your mind.
Here you have the Source Files
You know those flash contact forms?
I sow a lot of people who don’t know how to make one…
For those who don’t know how to make it… here you can see how it’s done… (inspired from gotoandlearn.com)
You can use that on any of your projects
In case you don’t know already… Lee Brimelow lunched gotoAndLearn V2
gotoAndLearn it’s a great flash tutorials site and it’s free!!
If you don’t know about it by now… I suggest you take a look
And you can check the forums too
It’s the best flash community out there
I did not updated this blog lately because I was working on some flash projects… and now I want to share with you the code that I use for most of my images when I load them externally.
I used this code a lot in MotorRocks.com and other sites…
import mx.transitions.Tween; import mx.transitions.easing.*; var listener:Object = new Object(); listener.tmc = target; listener.onLoadInit = function(mc:MovieClip) { new Tween(mc,"_alpha", Strong.easeOut,0,100,2,true); }; var loader:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader(); loader.addListener(listener); loader.loadClip("image01.jpg", holder);
I think this is the easiest way to preload images and when loaded… to fade them in.
It’s a nice effect and you can use it on your projects if you want
Today I did some research trying to find how to make a flip pater effect… and this is the result:
This is a nice effect and maybe I will use it for a photo slideshow app or something like that…
Here you have the source files…
I just lunched my new portfolio but right now I only have the portfolio page and two links… one to the blog and one to the contact page…
I have to implement some more stuff in the near future
We just lunched a TV channel for the Weekend Content site
Updates will be made from time to time… because I want to make it so you can feel like you are watching a TV channel
Tonight I did a test trying to shoot some photos for a 360 image viewer.
It’s working fine as you can see below… but I feel I still have to do some experiments with the code and maybe make something better. And maybe shoot some better images
Download Source Files
Flickr image from this photo shoot
I did some shoots with a lot of different objects… for experimental purpose only, and I believe this is one of the best image from tonight macro photo shoot
I’m working on some ideas for my portfolio site so the new site will be up very soon.
And this will be my first AS 3.0 site too
I will keep you posted…
Until then…. stay creative!!!
This books it’s amazing!! I always was a big fun of Brendan Dawes but I never got the chance to read any of his books, until now
The name of his las book is… you guest it… Analog in, digital out… and I’m enjoying it right now.
I believe is one of the best books I have.
Today I got my first glasses ever and two new books about flash and ActionScript.
So those are the books I got:
Essential ActionScript 3.0 |
Foundation Actionscript 3.0 Animation |
I have to say that it feels weir to have glasses. I think I have to stick with them a little and then every thing will be back to normal. And by the way, I didn’t know how much I was missing without the glasses
