Optimise your Flash movies

08/05/2009 | Filed under Develop > Flash

Widen your website’s appeal by delivering its content more quickly. Paul Wyatt explains how to streamline your visuals without compromising on quality

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/Flash/ Animation with ActionScript 3.0

25/03/2009 | Filed under Develop > Flash

Pushed for time? Deadlines looming? Learn to copy tweened animations to ActionScript and you can save yourself hours of effort. Paul Wyatt demonstrates this handy technique

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/Flash/ Make a looping background

27/02/2009 | Filed under Develop > Flash

With a few well-placed Flash tricks, you can liven up that dull micro site or standalone promotions site. Paul Wyatt shows you how to create a looping background animation

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/Flash/ Create a Cover Flow-style menu

19/12/2008 | Filed under Develop > Flash

You can create a cool menu for your website in under half an hour using Flash’s clever IgalleryX component. Paul Wyatt explains how

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/Flash/ Create 3D with Papervision

03/11/2008 | Filed under Develop > Flash

Paul Wyatt demystifies Papervision and introduces you to its Flash component. You’ll learn to create a 3D object then apply a texture and mouse movements

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/Flash/ Animated sub navigation

02/10/2008 | Filed under Develop > Flash

Paul Wyatt explains how to create slick, user-friendly navigation bars for your Flash websites and integrate them into an HTML page with Dreamweaver CS3

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/Flash/ Create a video chapter menu

14/08/2008 | Filed under Develop > Flash

Avoid clumsy YouTube content by adding a DVD-style chapter navigation system to your site. Paul Wyatt explains how to customise your videos

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/Flash/ Add music to your website

17/04/2008 | Filed under Develop > Flash

Looking to add audio to a site? Paul Wyatt shows you how to create an MP3 from a WAV file using Sorenson Squeeze, and link it up to a Flash movie via ActionScript

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/Flash/ Use custom type with sIFR

31/03/2008 | Filed under Develop > Flash

Don’t let system fonts ruin the look of your site! Paul Wyatt explains how to make your headers look stunning with Scalable Inman Flash Replacement

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/Flash/ Create an interactive movie - part two

28/11/2007 | Filed under Develop > Flash

This second part of our Flash tutorial carries on from the greenscreen shoot, so now Paul Wyatt takes you into the postproduction suite to apply a little pizzazz

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/Flash/ Create an interactive movie – part one

16/11/2007 | Filed under Develop > Flash

Paul Wyatt shows you how to set up a greenscreen shoot with a simple DV camera, replicating pro-style special effects along the way

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/Flash/ The art of parallax scrolling

18/09/2007 | Filed under Develop > Flash

Paul Wyatt shows you how to use the pseudo-3D parallax scrolling technique to add the illusion of depth to your portfolio or showcase sites. Get ready for some clever Flash fakery

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/Flash/ Styling with CSS and Flash

06/07/2007 | Filed under Develop > Flash

Paul Wyatt shows you how to use external CSS and text files to produce interactive web content, and how to create a preloader for dynamically loading JPEG images

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