Actually the title of this post is only the half of it, Jeff Tranberry over at Adobe just built a new set of Photoshop scripts for Airtight Interactive’s SimpleViewer, TiltViewer, AutoViewer and PostcardViewer. These scripts allow you to easily create Airtight galleries with Photoshop CS3+. Just select your image folder and gallery options to instantly create a gallery. How easy is that!
If you haven’t already used or demoed these Flash image galleries, then you should definitely do so right now.
Since the surfacing of Apple’s CoverFlow, many of us have tried to mimic this very sleek effect within our Flash projects. There are many successful attempts at accomplishing this effect of visually viewing of files. However, I have to admit the ever so popular “CoverFlow effect” just isn’t as hot as it used to be. Hopefully, a newly designed Flash component called PhotoFlip 3D CS can ignite that withering flame.
What is PhotoFlip 3D CS?
The guys over at Digicrafts provided a new twist to the “CoverFlow effect” in their new component, PhotoFlip 3D CS. PhotoFlip 3D CS allows you to build a real time 3D coverflow effect without the need of much ActionScripting knowledge. The other sweet thing about PhotoFlip 3D CS is that the “3D” look and feel is created on the fly without the need of a third party 3D application.
Includes a user friendly component inspector interface
Features of PhotoFlip 3D CS Include:
3D cover flow effect
3D popup effect
Fully customize texture for each item (top, bottom, left, right back)
Flashloaded presents a new innovative Flash component called 3D Spiral. The 3D Spiral is a Flash gallery component that displays images on an interactive 3D rotating spiral using the Papervision3D engine.
Features to be expected of 3D Spiral are:
Customizable height, width and spacing
Control what images are loaded via XML or ActionScript
ImageViewer3D is an image viewer with a little hint of the Tiltviewer, a Flickr image gallery created by AirTightInteractive. ImageViewer3D has been created by Arno Manders using Away3D, Tweener, and Adobe Flash. The interactivity and feel for this image viewer is really eye-popping. Its feature set is limited, however, being that this Flash component is free; I’d say it’s pretty impressive.
Coverflow and Papervision3D hook up to create IgalleryX. IgalleryX is a gallery that displays a stack of multiple photos, swfs, or videos with a reflection and perspective effect. All photos can be accessed by a skinnable scrollbar, mouse click or flipping by mouse wheel. Not only is this XML driven menu very robust, but with the integration of Papervison3D it is also pretty fast.
FX SlideShow allows you to display images in your Flex applications in an elegant and stylish way. Overall, FX Slideshow is a simple solution to creating a slideshow within Flex.
In a previous post, I introduced a new MXML component called ImageRail created by Andrei Ionescu of FLEX{er}. Andrei has added updated it to add some new features that were considered missing.
The list of new features include:
imageClick: triggered when there is a click on an image, more precisely, on the canvas that holds an image
imageBackgroundAlpha: able to set the background alpha of the each canvas that hold images
HandCursor: hand cursor upon hovering image
If your interested in learning more about these nice additions to the ImageRail component, be sure to visit FLEX{er} to get all the info.
This is a very sleek Flash news slider using AS3 functionality andXML for fetching the data.
The main purpose of this Flash news slider is to show news on the front page with a title, an image, some descriptive text, and a linkto the full article.
Also, the content being loaded is html formatted which allows for flexible customizations. You can find the steps for creating this Flash news slider along with the source files.
Mashups are AFComponents way of combining several of their AS3 components to create an application. There are many fantastic Flash components available on the web, however, it can be a little hard to picture some of them being used as real world applications. AFComponents helps by creating these mashups to show their users that more can be done with their components. This is great for the Flash stock community as we see more and more redundant components being made every day. This is AFComponents way of stepping out of the crowd.
How do Mashups work?
Upon purchasing a mashup, you receive the components required and the necessary code to create the mashup as they will be added to your account and can be used separately on future projects. Also, it is important to note that you typically spend less if purchased individually.
Stack and Scroll
This mashup was originally created for the AFC homepage. However, due to popular demand, it has become a mashup. Included are: 3D Stack (AS 3.0) and Scroll Panel (AS 3.0).
