Recently, Creattica has added a whole bunch of new categories, including one for top-notch Flash work. Here’s a rundown of some of the best work submitted so far.

1. Davi-T

2. Switching Seats

3. Interactive Partners

4. Mark Schlesinger

5. DrawingArt

6. Incrédibox

7. 26000 Vodka

8. Arôme

9. big boss studio

10. Carl Krull

11. Anchor Squirty Cream

12. Scion Xpressionism

13. Kasulo

14. MoOOo

15. Oblique FX

16. Full XML

17. Supernova XML

18. Nit’ras

19. Ben Fragau Photography

20. McCafe: Cappuccino Art

21. Puppetbrain

22. Zach Hendricks

23. LS5 Website

24. The VProject

25. shaake.com

26. N’uova design lab

27. Singularity “Refresh”

28. djnr interactive portfolio

29. Operation Dairy

30. Quiksilver Wetsuits

31. Otterball

32. Deadpixel Studio

33. DIESEL – ONLY THE BRAVE

34. hiroik

35. Semisture

36. Creative Web Design Portfolio

37. MHi

38. Mustang 2010

39. Critter Creative

40. formag.sk

41. Yellow Cavalier

42. Offices in Greenford

43. Havana Mojito

44. Keal Interactive Agency

45. Kim Høltermand – Portfolio

46. Miguel Endara

47. mitsoura.net

48. Lois Jeans Spring-Summer ‘09

49. Ciril Jazbec Photography

50. Dave Barnes

51. The ForgottenPixels

52. Interactive Media Designs

53. I Am Second

54. CityExpression

55. CrappyCat interactive cinema

56. Pierre Choiniere photographer

57. Follow the White Rabbit

58. ALINA GOZIN’A

59. Diego Huerta Photography

60. Jason Gray

Aetuts+ – After Effects Tutorials

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  Simulate a Realistic Sniper Scope Perspective – AE Plus

  My tutorial deals with a VFX shot that’s easy to attempt but hard to master: A convincing looking sniper scope view.
  I will outline the assets that I provide in Photoshop and the principles of accomplishing the intended outcome. In After Effects I’ll make use of pre-compositions, motion tracking and some easy expressions. For clarity’s purpose I’ll get into details about optical phenomena when necessary.

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  Form a Unique Transition

  In this tutorial we are going to reveal how to create a cool particle transition between 2 videos using Trapcode Form. We will cover the importance of layer maps while using this plugin as well as how to create a stylish displacement of the particles.

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  Making Your Color Scheme a Whole Lot Kuler!

  Adobe Kuler is a great resource for color themes that is perfectly integrated in all Adobe CS4 software – except for After Effects. But this has changed now.

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  The Best Sound You’ll Ever See!

  Satya is back with a new tutorial that will help you look as good as you sound. This technique has many options so sit back and learn how to create an attractive visual generated from your audio spectrum.

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  Terminate Your Footage With Expressions

  Sep 21st in VFX by Ben McEwan If you’re wanting to help to save Sarah Connor then maybe this tutorial will give you an insider’s perspective on what to do. Ben McEwan has created a 3 Day Series crammed full of useful expressions to create the UI found in the Terminator.

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Nettuts+ – Web Development Tutorials

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  11 Classic CSS Techniques Made Simple with CSS

  We’ve all had to achieve some effect that required an extra handful of divs or PNGs. We shouldn’t be limited to these old techniques when there’s a new age coming. This new age includes the use of CSS3. In today’s tutorial, I’ll show you eleven different time-consuming effects that can be achieved quite easily with CSS3.

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  20 HTML Forms Best Practices for Beginners

  Working with XHTML forms can be somewhat daunting; they not only use some niche HTML elements, but also blur the line between static content and user interaction. Let’s review some things to remember when creating your next form.

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  Search Engine Optimization 101

  Your website may be top notch but what’s the use of an online presence if no one can find it? In this quick start guide to search engine optimization we’ll review an assortment of tactics to increase your page ranking.

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  How to Design and Code a Flexible Website

  In this tutorial, we’re going to be designing and coding a simple blog-style web-page. We’ll pay special attention to making our design flexible and accessible by using clean and simple XHTML and CSS. This tutorial is aimed at beginners, and anyone looking to improve the accessibility of their web designs.

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  Getting Clean with PHP

  Data security is important and often undervalued by designers, developers, and clients alike. Since PHP 5.2.0, data sanitization and validation has been made significantly easier with the introduction of data filtering. Today, we’re going to take a closer look at these filters, how to use them, and build a few custom functions.

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Psdtuts+ – Photoshop

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  Render a Cereal Box Cover from Scratch Using Photoshop’s 3D Tools

  Hi everyone! This time I’ve got for you a fun tutorial, we’ll create a cereal box design from scratch, using only Photoshop. We will render several fruit flavored cereal loops using the Photoshop’s CS4 Extended 3D tools, apply textures to the loops, bump the surfaces and mock-up them into a real 2D image. Are you ready?

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  Create a Big Air Event Poster with Photoshop and Illustrator – Psd Plus Tutorial

  We have another Psd Plus tutorial exclusively available to Plus members today. If you want to take your Photoshop and Illustrator integration skills to the next level, then we have an exciting poster design tutorial for you. Learn more at the jump!

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  Create an Intense Movie Poster in Photoshop

  Designers love to be critical about movie posters, and while you may think you have better ideas about how to sell a movie to an audience, how many times have you actually tried doing it? In this tutorial, we’re going to create a poster for a fictional movie called “Fugitive.” The movie is meant to be a suspenseful thriller that features one’s escape under the cover of darkness, despite man’s attempt to capture the lone hero. Thin and cheesy plot? Check. Awesome opportunity to better your PSD skills? You got it!

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  How to Create Eroded Metal Text with Photoshop

  In this tutorial I’ll show you how to create an eroded metal text effect. Throughout this tutorial we’ll make use of various drawing techniques, channels, and patterns.

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  Add Fantastic Color to 3D Text – Part I

  This is the first part of a two part series. Part two will be released tomorrow. In this piece you will learn how to bring a simple text to life and place everything in fantastic, colored and glowing 3D space. Some neat techniques covered here will allow you to bring your art to the next level. Don’t miss it! There are two parts to this tutorial: Part I and Part II.

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Vectortuts+ – Vector & Illustrator

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  How to Create a Golden, Vector Compass in Illustrator

  In this tutorial I will take you through the steps and techniques of creating a golden compass. For this tutorial I’ve used just Adobe Illustrator and a heavy dose of ingenuity.

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  How to Create a Yellow Submarine Icon with Gradient Meshes – Vector Plus Tutorial

  We have another great Vector Plus tutorial available exclusively for Plus members today. If you want to learn how to use gradient mesh, pattern brushes and other advanced Illustrator tools to create a shiny submarine, then we have an awesome tutorial for you. Learn more about this tutorial at the jump!

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  Build a Promotional iPhone App Website Wireframe in Fireworks

  Fireworks is a great tool for creating a wireframe and while it doesn’t work perfect with Photoshop, you can export over there and then build off your wireframe. We’ll cover the design process of creating a wireframe for an iPhone application website in Fireworks. For those of you not familiar with this program, it will be a good jumping off point for using it to wireframe your web design projects. This is a multi-part series and will be fun! Here is Part I of and Part II.

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  How to Create a Caramel Ripple Effect

  In this tutorial, we will create a hot chocolate caramel effect using some distort tools and the 3D revolve tool. This is a simple and effective technique to obtain a quality vector ripple effect quickly. Here we go!

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  How to Create an Energy Saving Bulb in Illustrator

  Here we’re showing how to create an energy saving bulb with the help of the Illustrator’s Mesh Tool. At the beginning it could be quiet hard to work with, but if you get used to it, it’s fairly simple.

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Activetuts+ – Flash, Flex & ActionScript Tutorials

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  Create a Unit Converter Application for Flash Lite Enabled Devices

  Flash Lite is an implementation of the Flash runtime for mobile phones, consumer electronic devices, and Internet-connected digital home devices. According to Adobe, the number of Flash Lite shipped devices will reach 1 billion in 2009 and more than 2.5 billion by the end of 2010, so if you are a Flash Developer it is important to know how this technology works and how it differs from Flash Player for the desktop.

  In this tutorial I’ll guide you through the basics of Flash Lite using the 1.1 version; sacrificing features, but ensuring compatibility.

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  Build a Mini Golf Game with ActionScript 3.0

  In this tutorial I´ll show you how to create nice Mini Golf Game with ActionScript 3.0. We´ll work with Event Handlers, Functions and also the Timer Object which is a really cool feature in AS3.

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  AS3 101: Loops

  Welcome back to AS3 101, the fifth edition! At this point, you should be comfortable with the concepts of variables, functions, conditionals (branching), and Arrays. Not only should you be comfortable with the concepts, but you should also be fluent in how ActionScript 3 implements these concepts.

  For this fifth episode, we’ll be adding to that catalog of skills the various looping structures found in AS3. You’ll find some dependencies on the information learned in AS3 101 Part 4, on Arrays, so if you’ve skipped that one or need a refresher, please review that tutorial before continuing with this one.

  For our final project, we’ll combine loops and arrays, to make a simple shoot-em-up game.

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  Improve Your Memory With an Away3D Game

  In this tutorial we’ll build a 3D memory game. Along the way we’ll look at adding variables and mouseEvents to Away3D objects. Let’s get started..

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  Build a Photo Viewer Using Flex and the Flickr API

  In this tutorial you will learn how to use the as3flickrlib library to create a Flash Flickr photo viewer.

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Phototuts+ – Photography & Post-Processing Tutorials

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  Photography Kick-start Guide: Adjusting Your Camera’s Settings for the Photo You Want

  Cameras vary in terms of functions offered. There are differences from one brand to the next and even from one model to another of the same brand. By necessity, this tutorial will have to generalize but let’s try to de-mystify some of the more common settings found on cameras today, what they mean (to the camera) and how to use them.

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  Mastering the Art of Black and White Photography

  In the early days of photography, photographers had no choice but to shoot in black and white, as it was the only available medium. Then, in 1936, the invention of kodachrome gave colour photography to the world. But black and white photography didn’t die off, instead it flourished. Modern black and white photography at it’s best is art, and many photographers regard it as the purest form of photography.

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  Freezing Time: 80 Inspiring Examples of High Speed Photography

  In our last roundup, we covered a selection of amazing HDR images. This time we move onto something completly different, with stunning high speed photography. These images freeze time, and allow us to observe scenes that the naked eye would struggle to capture. It’s definitely worth a look for some great inspiration!

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  8 Tips for Taking Sports Photos Like a Pro

  Are you looking to shoot better sports photos, and make an impact? Sports photography presents you with many opportunities to capture dramatic and vivid imagery that will last a lifetime. No other medium presents you with heart-pounding action, vivid color patterns and unique shooting opportunities.
  The steps and guidance featured in this tutorial cover a broad range of areas – from perfecting shutter speed, to making sure you don’t miss the action.

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  How to Photograph Waterfalls

  Waterfalls are some of the most beautiful natural features you will ever get the opportunity to photograph. But though they can look simply stunning, photographing waterfalls is not easy to do well. How do you avoid your photos being too dark? How do you deal with clipping in the water? How do you compose your photos to capture the authentic beauty of the scene?
  In this tutorial, nature photography expert Steve Berardi shares his best tips for photographing waterfalls.

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Cgtuts+ – CG Tutorials

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  Model and Texture a Posh Living Room Scene in Maya

  In this tutorial you will go through the process of modeling and rendering a Living Room in Autodesk Maya. You will also learn to use Mental Ray (along with the new architectural materials), create realistic fur, and implement studio lighting to create nice and soft shadows and highlights.

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  Using Splines to Add Detail to Your High-Poly Model in 3ds Max

  Splines are an often-overlooked aspect of 3ds max when it comes to game art. Most people know that you can use a spline for a wire – but you can also use it for things like grooves, whole objects like handles, and even text! In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at some of these advanced ways that splines can be used to save a lot of time on tasks that would otherwise have to be done by hand.

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  Create a Rocky Video Game Terrain in Blender

  In this series of tutorials you will learn how to create a finished environment for Blender’s Game Engine. The main focus of the series will be texturing and lighting, with the use of some custom 2d filters to enhance the result.

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  Model a Photorealistic Swiss Army Knife in Modo

  Subdivision modeling is an extremely powerful tool that can allow you to add high levels of detail to your models in a relatively short amount of time. In order to use it effectively, however, one must know when, and more importantly, when not to use it. In this three part, beginner to intermediate tutorial series, professional Modo artist, Matt Braeley, will demonstrate how to model a photorealistic Swiss Army knife, using polygonal and subdivision modeling in Luxology’s Modo 302.

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  Build an Advanced Drifting Car Rig in 3ds Max

  In this advanced level tutorial, you will learn all of the steps necessary to build a fully functioning car rig in 3D Studio Max. This rig features working suspension, steering and body roll, as well as some functionality for drifting and powerslides. You will learn how to set up internal functionality through links, constraints, expressions, and parameter wiring. The final result will be a robust rig with easy, and accessible controls.

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Audiotuts+ – Audio and Music

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  Introduction to Polyrhythms

  The usage of simple, common time (4/4 time signature, where there are four beats to a measure, and each quarter note gets one beat) is pervasive in Western popular music, including rock, blues, country, folk, pop, and various forms of electronic music including many sub-genres of house and trance music. The four-on-the-floor mindset can be difficult to escape, but every musician and composer can benefit from a study of rhythm that includes a wider variety of time signatures and rhythms.

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  How to Design Reeses and Hoovers

  Have you ever wondered how your favourite dance music producers create those amazing sounds that make you jump on the dance floor? Well, it usually takes a lot of experience and a huge amount of time spent on experimenting and processing sounds a ridiculously high number of times.

  But it’s quite hard to reach the stage of experimentation if you don’t even know the basics behind some kind of sounds often heard in dance tracks. This tutorial will teach you how to design from scratch a DnB trademark, the reese bass, and how to reproduce the infamous hoover sound, introducing you to the technique of resampling.

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  A Beginner’s Introduction to Home Recording

  Home recording technology seems to get better and cost less every year. It puts power in the hands of ordinary people. You’ve probably found this article because you want to get into home recording.

  Most of our tutorials here at Audiotuts are at the intermediate or advanced level. And that’s OK, because you won’t be a beginner forever. But we do have some more basic tutorials and articles aimed at the beginner. This article will refer to many of them, and hopefully give you an overview of what’s involved in getting into home recording.

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  A Basic Guide to Subtractive Synthesis (Part 1)

  This screencast is the first tutorial in a series on synthesis. This first installment shows a basic guided tour of Subtractor in Reason and covers oscillators, filters and envelopes.

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  Is the Public Capable of Recognizing Quality Music?

  Can the average music listener recognize quality? Can they distinguish a virtuoso from a mediocre musician? Can they recognize a “hit” that will still be esteemed a masterpiece in a hundred years? Does “popular” mean the same as “quality”?

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Specifically, I’ve focused on cars. The motor industry hasn’t always been the most environmentally friendly sector, but it seems car manufacturers are trying to change. And they’re using Rich Internet features to show us..

This post is part of Blog Action Day 2009, a worldwide initiative started by Envato founders Collis and Cyan Ta’eed, now being run by Change.org. Blog Action Day exists to change the conversation on the web for one day by uniting thousands of bloggers around one important issue – this year, Climate Change. It’s not too late to register your blog and participate.

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  Change Perspective: Saab

  Great site for Saab. It’s not 100% dedicated to the environment or climate change, but delve deeper and you’ll find a nice presentation about bio fuels and Saab’s take on alternative energy sources.

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  Fortum Energy

  “Fortum participates in making rechargeable electric cars available and developing the necessary infrastructure. This is one of our ways of controlling climate change and supporting current and future generations.”

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  Reva

  “Une technologie 100% électrique”. Yes that’s all very well, but more importantly, this puppy’s available in Tiger, Leopard and Zebra print. Sign me up!

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  Honda Green Machine

  Alright, I’ll be honest, this game had me baffled. I found I’d turned into a dog, with a healthy energy level, but a lousy jump level (?) In any case, there’s plenty of green, talk of the environment, car emissions and Charlie Brown. I really should brush up on my Japanese..

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  2010 Ford Fusion

  Another slick Flash site to show off Ford’s technological advances with the 2010 Fusion. The most notable graphic on the Fusion’s dash display is the Efficiency Forest. This is a forest of leaves which grows whilst you’re driving responsibly! Keep that pedal from the metal and you’ll be rewarded with glorious shrubbery in you car..

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  Lexus Hybrid

  My Russian is apparently just as useless as my Japanese, so don’t ask me what the voice over was telling me. Still, plenty of impressive graphics and animation to put across the benefits of Lexus’ Hybrid vehicle.

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  2010 Toyota Prius

  Another car manufacturer focusing on fuel economy, this time with the infamous Prius battery to back it up. Toyota presents the 2010 Prius with truckloads of Flash animation on this promotional mini site.

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  Fit

  Fit is efficient. Fit go green. Honda say it themselves. Even if you don’t rush to the showroom to buy one, visit the site and paint flowers all over the floor.

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  Volkswagen 2028

  “Volkswagen gives us a glimpse of the future with their solid and sustainable concepts and visions for the next generation.”

  Thanks to www.thefwa.com for putting this one my way..

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Phototuts+ – Photography Tutorials

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  7 Tips for Taking Travel Photos Like a Pro

  Travel photography seems so simple. What could be easier than traveling to an exotic location in a beautiful country with a camera and a handful of memory cards and taking some amazing photos? But, when you arrive at your location, you find that it’s a lot harder to take a decent travel photo than it looks. In this tutorial I’ll be sharing seven key tips for taking professional-looking travel photos you will appreciate for years to come.

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  Create a Stunning High-Key Portrait Photo

  Creating weaponry effectively in a next-gen workflow requires detailed knowledge of a variety of very specific skills and tools. In this four part tutorial you will learn how to create a combat knife suitable for use in next-gen games.

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  How to Shoot and Post-Process Professional HDR Photos in One Day

  In this tutorial you will learn the simple secrets of crafting a shoot sequence for HDR and creating professional quality HDR images in both Photomatix and Photoshop (depending on your weapon of choice). Not only will you learn an efficient workflow, but you’ll also learn the theory behind Dynamic Range. This lesson is taught by Peter Tellone, a professional photographer specializing in HDR landscapes.

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  Photography Kick-start Guide: How Your Camera Works

  Most photography tutorials, including most of the ones you’ll find here on the Tuts+ network of web sites, assume a certain base level of knowledge. But what if you’ve only just decided you want to make the leap into taking photos with manual settings?

  In this tutorial you’ll start to begin to learn the fundamentals of photography – fundamentals that will allow you to start reading and using more advanced tutorials, and manipulating the manual settings on your camera. Here we cover exposure, how the camera works, the shutter, focus, light, depth of field and ISO.

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  How to Use Flash With a Slow Shutter to Create Motion and Ghosts

  Though the still photo is a beautiful thing, it does have its weaknesses – especially when it comes to portraying movement. In this tutorial you’ll learn how to faithfully capture movement by taking photos that use flash and a slow shutter speed. You’ll learn about recommended gear, how to choose appropriate subjects, setting up the shoot, dealing with lighting and choosing the best settings on your camera.

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Cgtuts+ – 3D Tutorials

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  Model a Photorealistic Boss Tu-2 FX Pedal in Modo

  In this two-part tutorial you will learn how to model the Boss Tu-2 FX pedal using Luxology’s Modo 302. Taking advantage of Modo’s workflow enhancing toolset, the model will be highly detailed, and suitable for close up renders from any angle.

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  Next-Gen Weapon Creation

  Creating weaponry effectively in a next-gen workflow requires detailed knowledge of a variety of very specific skills and tools. In this four part tutorial you will learn how to create a combat knife suitable for use in next-gen games.

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  How to Export 3D Camera Data from Cinema 4D Into After Effects

  When it comes to motion graphics, exporting camera data from a 3D program to a 2D compositing program is one of the most important techniques you could know. In this tutorial, you will learn the basics behind getting Cinema 4D and After Effects to talk to one another, including using exporting tags, using the camera data in After Effects within 3D layers and effects, and how to set up and tweak your render for the best results.

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  An Introduction to Fluid Simulations in Blender

  Learning to simulate realistic fluids in any 3d app is always a challenge, but Blender’s sophisticated solver allows for some very rewarding results.

  In this introduction to Blender fluid simulations, you will learn the basics of how to set up a fluid simulation in Blender with an obstacle, and a few fluid set ups to give you an idea of some of the other things that you can do with Blender fluids.

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  An Introduction to 3Ds Max: Polygonal Modeling

  In the first part of the series, professional video game artist, Kaleb Aylsworth, walked you through many of the key skills that you will need to get started modeling in 3ds Max. Now, in the second part, he will demonstrate how to apply the things that you have learned by using them to make a low-poly version of Guy van der Walt’s “Retro TV Set”. You can see some more examples of Guy’s work at his portfolio website, Plasticboy.

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Nettuts+ – Web Development Tutorials

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  8 Regular Expressions You Should Really Know

  Regular expressions are a language of their own. When you learn a new programming language, they’re this little sub-language that makes no sense at first glance. Many times you have to read another tutorial, article, or book just to understand the “simple” pattern described. Today, we’ll review eight regular expressions that you should know for your next coding project.

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  Design and Code Your First Website in Easy to Understand Steps

  In this tutorial, we’re going to design and code our first website in simple, easy steps. This tutorial was written for the beginner with the hope that it will give you the tools to write your own standards-compliant websites! It’s a brand new week; maybe it’s time to learn a new skill!

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  30+ PHP Best Practices for Beginners

  PHP is the most widely-used language for programming on the web. Here are thirty best practices for beginners wanting to gain a firmer grasp of the fundamentals.

  Editor’s Note: The “Best Practices” series has been my baby for three articles now. However, due to my focus on the CI video series, I’ve decided to hand off this next entry to Glen. Having said that, I’m not very good at keeping my mouth shut! I thought it might be fun to sporadically add a few rebuttals to his tips. I hope he doesn’t mind!

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  6 Ways to Improve your Web Typography

  Typography on the web is anything but simple, and for many, it is a troubling mystery. Today, we’re going to review six ways that web designers and developers can improve the typography of the sites they create.

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  A Crash-Course in Advanced CSS3 Effects

  Webkit is one of the few – if only – browser engines that really embraces advanced CSS3 effects. Unfortunately, this presents somewhat of a double-edged sword. We get to play with all of these amazing effects – such as CSS masks, reflections, transitions, animations, scaling, etc. – yet, we can’t truly implement them into our projects until more browsers provide support. With all of that said, it’s important to be on the cutting edge of what’s possible.

  In today’s video tutorial, we’ll review a bunch of different neat effects that can be used in Safari 4, Chrome, and for all iPhone development

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Audiotuts+ – Audio Tutorials

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  How to Use Multi-band Compression in Mixing and Mastering

  In some of my recent tutorials I have been breaking down the processors used in a typical mastering chain into individual subjects. So far we have looked at buss compression, M/S processing and stereo enhancement. In this tutorial we are going to look at multi-band compression.

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  36 Audio Interfaces Under $1000

  Most computers come with a sound card with line and mic inputs, and many people use these when starting out with audio recording. But if you are serious about the quality of your work, you should avoid them. They have inferior audio to digital converters, and often produce a good deal of noise. You need to choose a professional audio interface that allows you to plug in your mics and instruments, and connects to your computer through a USB, Firewire, PCI or PCMCIA interface.

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  Advanced Drum Editing in Kontakt

  I created this tutorial to serve two purposes. First off, I feel that there is a distinct lack of proper in-depth Kontakt tutorials. This tutorial teaches you everything you need to know to get started with Kontakt 3’s amazing Group editing. Second, I find that there are plenty of threads out there where someone will ask “How do I get my drums to sound like ____?” (Usually Squarepusher). I feel that group editing is the quickest, yet most hands-on way of creating incredible, glitchy beats without relying on VST effects as a crutch (and therefore avoiding sounding like anybody who else who uses Plug-in X).

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  How to Configure Your Axiom Control Surface with Logic Pro 9

  MIDI controllers with control surfaces are quite common and affordable these days. They can control just about any aspect of your DAW, but their strength is in allowing you to control the DAW while at the keyboard as opposed to being used for a mixing session after tracking is finished. Since the Axiom doesn’t come with any Logic presets, let’s take a look at how to configure all those buttons, faders and knobs from withing Logic.

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  How to Layer Hip Hop Drums in FL Studio

  Although it is often seen as a signature move of Hip Hop producers, customizing drums through layering is a technique used by artists in every genre, and it allows you to have fresh, new drum sounds that will energize your productions. Using simple tools and sounds you already have, you can expand your sound palette. In this tutorial, Sean Duncan gets us started.

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Psdtuts+ – Photoshop

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  Create a Mixed Media Masterpiece – Psd Plus Tutorial

  If you want to take your photo hand crafted textures into Photoshop and create a high-quality mixed media illustrations, then we have an exciting tutorial for you. Learn more at the jump!

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  How to Create a One-of-a-Kind Twitter Background in Photoshop

  If you’re on twitter and reading this blog, chances are you’ve already customized your profile with a cool twitter background. In this tutorial, we’ll create one of our own around a central mascot: a highly detailed twitter bird, that you’ll have to draw yourself! Get ready to do much more than clicking in this artistic tutorial!

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  Manipulate Smoke to Create Hyper-Real Images

  Learn to apply the Warp Tool effectively and a few other tricks to make smoke look like a skull. This technique has a variety of outcomes and works well with water, clouds and a whole bunch of other stuff. This is probably more for intermediate users, as I guide you through the process well, but not every Warp Grid point handle move. Let’s get started!

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  How to Create an Original Pin-Up Girl in Photoshop

  In this tutorial, I will be taking you through the steps that I do when creating a cartoon pin-up. I will start off with thumbnails and continue on to the final image. Along the way, I will be sharing with you my techniques and thought process when it comes to creating an original image with Photoshop. Let’s get started!

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  How to Create a Fallen Angel on Fire Photo Manipulation – Psd Plus Tutorial

  If you want to take your photo manipulation work to the next level, then we have an exciting tutorial for you. We’ll work with fire and other images to create this fantasy scene. Learn more at the jump!

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Vectortuts+ – Vector & Illustrator

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  How to Create a Mesh Flower in Illustrator

  In this tutorial, we’ll explain how to create a flower with Illustrator’s mesh tools and opacity masks. With these tools you have a high-degree of control and can create realistic looking illustrations. Let’s get started!

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  Create Illustrated Type from Sketch to Vector – Vector Plus Tutorial

  If you want to learn how to combine illustration and typography, then we have an awesome tutorial for you. Learn more about this tutorial at the jump!

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  How to Create a Rainy Window Vector Background

  Using the Symbolism Tools, plus a bit of Gradient Mesh, learn to make a realistic window covered with raindrops. This is an advanced tutorial that assumes a fair amount of Illustrator experience, but everyone should be able to follow along. It can be done with earlier versions of Illustrator, but takes full advantage of newer features in CS4. Let’s get started!

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  How to Illustrate a Brain Icon for OSX and Vista

  In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a cartoon style illustration of a brain, then how to convert the image for use as an icon for OSX and Vista. I’ll discuss some points about detailing for icon design as well. Let’s get started!

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  How to Create a Radial Mesh in Illustrator and Make a Vector CD

  Ever wonder about creating Radial Mesh in Illustrator? Yes, now you can and it will reveal more possibilities to you in Illustrator. In the first part of this tutorial you’ll learn how to create a Radial Mesh in Illustrator (without using any 3rd party plugin), and in second part we’ll create a Vector CD using that radial mesh method. So let’s do it!

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Flashtuts+ – Flash, Flex & ActionScript Tutorials

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  Create an Attractive Digital Clock in Flash

  ActionScript 3.0 is a very powerful language, capable of creating anything from simple and light utilities to full-featured desktop applications.

  In this tut, we’re going to create something simple, a basic and good looking digital clock in Flash.

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  AS3 101: Arrays

  In this installment of AS3 101, we’ll spend the entire tutorial exploring a single type of data available to most programming languages: the Array.

  Arrays are ways to keep lists of values. Arrays are useful to keep an arbitrary number of related items grouped together, and can represent complex data structures though nesting. In ActionScript, Arrays have quite a bit of flexibility and functionality, as we’ll see. After the usual abstract introduction, we’ll apply what we’ve learned (whilst also learning some more along the way) by building a rather simple puzzle game.

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  Make Your Flash Logo Bling with Alpha Gradient Masking

  In this tutorial we’ll look at how to create a logo which incorporates alpha gradient masking in its animation. I’ll explain some tips and tricks on how to get it working and avoiding some common problems.

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  Using AMFPHP with AS3 and CodeIgniter

  It seems that the AMFPHP project has now been laid to rest, unfortunately it never made it past the 1.9 beta version and nor did the tutorials. However, Adobe didn’t give up on it that easily and with the new Flex compilers they’ve included the AMF3 object encoding!

  Good news for all you Flexers, but it’s a different story for all you AS3′ers. Flex allows you to quickly and simply build a service that will interact with your AMFPHP code, but you have to get your hands dirty with AS3. So, I’ve decided that it’s time there’s a decent set of classes out there that help Bob build a site with AS3 using the AMFPHP gateway.

  And to throw some more dirt into the mix, we’ll be integrating AMFPHP with CodeIgniter so that we have a fantastic PHP framework for the backend.

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  Create Your Own Adobe AIR Application with Flash

  In this tutorial we’ll create a Twitter Reader application, fed from your own Twitter updates. We’ll look at some of the features of the nativeWindow class, how to sign it and make an install package.

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Aetuts+ – After Effects Tutorials

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  How to Create a Palmticular Tree

  In this tutorial, Vincent introduces a few of the new features in Particular 2 with the creation of a growing palm tree. Put on some sun screen and enjoy!

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  Creating a Tracked Head Wound

  In this tutorial Mathias shows that corner pin tracking can do much more than just replacing some pictures on a wall. We are going to compose a wound on a moving head and use the Mocha tracker in combination with his script MochaImport. Trust me, this is so much easier than creating a real head wound!

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  Create the “My Paper Mind” Effect

  This tutorial will teach you how to recreate the “My Paper Mind” effect done by Javan Ivey, but with the environment in mind, Nicolas has come up with a way to save some paper (as well as about 3 days worth of paper cuts!) It is all done in After Effects without any third party plug-ins. Enjoy!

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  Recreate Mac OSX Intro Video with C4D

  As the penultimate nugget of goodness in our Mac Lover’s Week, Satya created a 2 day tutorial that everybody will enjoy! In day 1, he will walk us through Cinema 4D and how to create the 3d text in this effect.

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  Make a Glitchy Interface Animation

  This tutorial will teach you how to recreate a stylized Glitch Interface Animation that resembles a high tech control system, with an analog monitor startup. Anthony Errisuriz provides his step by step process for creating this amazing effect with design from Illustrator and animating in After Effects.

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In this roundup you’ll find inspiration from sporting greats, pop legends and German soft drink manufacturers. There are interviews from industry experts, as well as a load of tutorials from elsewhere around the Flash blog-o-sphere. Of course, freebies are always welcome, so you’ll find an ActionScript Migration Cookbook from Adobe, a funky Music Visualizer and several others..

Plenty to get your teeth into!

Inspiration

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  Eternal Moonwalk

  Michael Jackson is no longer with us. In his honor, Studio Brussel launched the Eternal Moonwalk which has seen tens of thousands of people sliding backwards on polished floors all across the world..

  I’m sure you’ve seen it, but if you haven’t, you must go and check out this brilliantly creative tribute to the King of pop.

  See for yourself..

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  Pak de Polo

  Pak de Polo (Grab the Polo) is a great promotion from Volkswagen in the Netherlands. If you see the promotional Polo drive by, stop it and get in! By driving the most uninterrupted kilometres that day, you’re in for a chance at winning the car itself.

  Aside from the stunt, there’s the site. Full of video highlights and information, including a live Flash Video Stream from inside (and outside) the car, current GPS position, intended route and current driver statistics. Inspirational realtime Flash use.

  See for yourself..

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  The work of Teo Skaffa

  "I’m Teo Skaffa and I like to draw cats. I also like my beard. So yeah…"

  Need I say any more? Well, perhaps. Go and take a look at Teo’s site, especially if you’re a nostalgic 8bit computer game player, the navigation sound effects will take you back.

  See for yourself..

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  Museum of Science and Industry: Simple Machines

  "Remember, simple machines trade distance for force when doing work. The more the distance, the less force needed."

  Help Twitch complete a series of tasks all based around simple physics. Pulleys, levers, fulcrums – you’ll need them all!

  See for yourself..

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  Umbro.com

  Sporty inspiration, in the form of Umbro’s homepage. Simple, clear navigation, video, animation, great Flash web design.

  See for yourself..

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  Odosketch

  A hefty 19,000 sketches can be found on this gallery and they’re all created online with the Odosketch Flash drawing application. Recent updates have seen the introduction of user profiles, featured sketches and a slideshow.

  Thanks to FWA for bringing this one to my attention!

  See for yourself..

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  Almdudler promotional game

  I’m a sucker for amusing characters and animation, so this promotional shoot ‘em up from German soft drink manufacturer Almdudler is a definite recommendation.

  Paste your own face onto one of the various bodies then watch yourself dodge your own water balloons.. Sound confusing? Not if you speak German, but even I managed to complete a round!

  See for yourself..

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  Congratulate Roger on his 15th Major

  Dru Kepple, rapidly becoming famous for his AS3 101 series here on Flashtuts+, is also known for his work at Summit Projects. This month saw them launch Nike’s celebration of Roger Federer’s 15th major championship; a Flash microsite where already thousands of fans have left messages of congratulations.

  Federer fans; leave a message. Non-fans; check out the site anyway..

  See for yourself..

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  oops. i tweeted my pants

  Those of you who follow Creattica Daily will have seen this one fly past; a very novel Flash-based twitter visualizer from Fl 2. I should point out that this is beta release v.01 and that we’re promised even more amusing info-graphics when the site’s updated. Well worth a look!

  See for yourself..

Learning Resources

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  Layers Magazine: Flash Audio Visualization

  Tom Green, self proclaimed non-coder, tears apart some ActionScript, plays around with variables and discusses native Flash Audio Visualization. A particularly useful screencast for those of you who prefer the Flash IDE to rooting around with AS Editors.

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  Smashing Magazine: A Guide to Google Analytics and Useful Tools

  A post about Google Analytics in general, but scroll down the page and you’ll find a quick 4 minute screencast about “Analytics and Flash and Flex Content”. Google’s Brett Crosby talks with Matthew McNeely about some of the ways in which Google Analytics can work with your Flash applications.

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  Create an intelligent XML image Gallery & Slideshow in Flash CS4 (+PHP)

  In part one of this tut from the Tec Labs, Mario Santos begins his construction of an image gallery. He describes it as ‘intelligent’ as it requires no xml or external library file. It builds a directory listing from the files you’ve uploaded to the server then automatically loads them.

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  Developing with Flash Lite

  Mark Doherty over at FlashMobileBlog has teamed up with Dale Rankine to produce a video tutorial series: "Developing with Flash Lite" on their Adobe Flash Lite Vimeo channel.

  Mark says "From the series I expect that viewers will learn how to use Adobe Device Central, discover how to construct a mobile interface and to work with multimedia including FLV". Subscribe to the RSS and stay up to date with coming episodes.

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  Making Smoke in Flash

  Nice little tuturial from ASGamer.com. A touch of Photoshop, a dab of ActionScript and you have yourself some convincing smoke for use in games and applications.

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  Adobe flash CS4 Game tutorial: shooting

  Another straight forward tutorial for budding gamers out there. Make a moveable spaceship sprite shoot bullets.

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  Create a scratch card in Actionscript 3

  Use your mouse cursor to scratch away a panel, revealing an image underneath. A simple, yet effective use of ActionScript 3.0 shape classes.

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  Getting Started With BetweenAS3

  Devon O. Wolfgang takes you through the basics of BetweenAS3; the newcomer to the tweening engine club. Nice work Devon.

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  XML-Driven 3D Billboard – Flash CS4 and AS3 Effect

  In the words of the Flash & Math team: "We use the native 3D methods available in Flash Player 10 as well as several custom ActionScript 3 classes to construct an advertising billboard with a 3D twist. The billboard is fully customizable by editing a simple XML file."

  This tutorial is available as a downloadable .zip.

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Interviews

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  Adobe’s Primary Developer of Rich Internet Applications Mark Anders

  Mark Anders is a senior principal scientist at Adobe Systems, keeping himself busy with ensuring the future of RIA’s lies with Adobe, Flash and Flex. Jake Rocheleau fires a few questions in his direction.

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  Grant Skinner at FITC Amsterdam

  ActionScriptHero.org were very busy during the FITC in Amsterdam this month, pulling together several interviews with leading industry experts in Flash. Joshua Davis, Mike Chambers, Lee Brimelow and Jim Corbett (to name but a few) all shared their Flash views on camera.

  This one made me chuckle though, Grant Skinner answers questions from an apparently star-struck Weyert de Boer..

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  Freakish Kid Stu Gamble

  Cluckie the Vampire Chicken. If the name alone doesn’t entice you to go and have a look, rest assured that the animation made with Anime Studio and Flash will blow you away! Aaron from Cold Hard Flash puts a few questions to Budapest-based animator Stu Gamble.

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Freebies

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  Fast 2D Bezier Library for ActionScript 3

  Tom Byrne shows us his animated curves in AS3.

  Go get it!

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  Accessible Flash Nav

  Jay from Warm Forest Flash shares his accessible flash navigation, allowing right-clicking and easy styling.

  Go get it!

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  Source Code: Spectrum Ring Music Visualizer

  Grant Skinner shares with us his first dabble with computeSpectrum and ByteArrays, the result of which is a cool music visualizer. Drop in your own mp3 file, play with the values, sit back and enjoy!

  Go get it!

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  ActionScript 3 LoadMovie Snippet

  Put simply: LoadMovie in AS3

  As the author, Dale, says: "It’s pretty simple. A singleton class, with a simple loadMovie method that accepts the string URL of the asset to load, the container to load it into, and an optional Boolean flag for deciding if the containers existing children (if it has any) are removed with each new load."

  Go get it!

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  ActionScript 3 migration cookbook beta

  No, this technically doesn’t belong in a July roundup; it’s been around a while. However, this being our first Best of the web on Flashtuts+ I thought it worth sticking in. It’s a great, concise (20 pages) resource, so for all those who are looking to make the transition from ActionScript 2.0 to ActionScript 3.0, what are you waiting for?!

  Go get it!

Cgtuts+ – 3D

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  How to Create a Video Game Dumpster: The Complete Current-Gen Workflow

  As technology evolves, the tools and requirements for creating current-gen game art are constantly changing. In this tutorial we will learn the current game art workflow in its entirety, from the low-poly model all the way to final game-ready asset. We will create a realistic grimy dumpster suitable for any urban setting.

  This mammoth video training series features over 194 minutes of video instruction on all aspects of game art creation, including creating the low-poly and high-poly models, the UVW unwrap, baking normal maps from high-poly, and creating diffuse, specular and detail bump textures.

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  Create Amazingly Realistic Renders Using Advanced Render in Cinema 4D

  Maxon’s 11th release of Cinema 4D introduces significant improvements to Advanced Render. AR 3 now uses two new algorithms (Irradiance and Quasi-Monte Carlo), making it much easier and faster to get clean, and beautiful renders than ever before. In this tutorial we will learn how to take advantage of these amazing new features!

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  Sculpt, Model and Texture a Low-Poly Skull in Blender

  Normal maps are widely used in games to make low poly models look high poly. In this tutorial you will learn how to create a high res Skull model, generate a normal map from that model and learn how to apply this to its low poly version.

  Techniques covered in this tutorial include multires sculpting, baking a normal map, baking ambient occlusion and applying the maps to a low poly model.

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  Model, Sculpt and Texture a Demon-like Monster in 3ds Max and ZBrush

  This is a multi-part tutorial on creating a Demon-like ‘Lok Warrior’ with realistic muscle anatomy. On the first day of this tutorial we created a base mesh for our character using poly modeling. On the second day, we took the mesh into ZBrush and sculpted the intricate muscle anatomy. On the third day we will texture the monster.

  Day 1, Day 2, Day 3.

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  Create a Spectacular Crash Animation With Maya Dynamics

  It is always great to learn new animation tools and techniques that can help you to bring your creations to life. In this tutorial we will learn how to use Maya’s powerful animation, dynamics, and camera tools to create an explosive crash effect between two vehicles.

  Day 1, Day 2.

Aetuts+ – After Effects

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  War! Or How to Create a 3D Particle Generated Video Display

  Wes comes back with another adrenalin fueled piece that is sure to become an Aetuts+ favorite. Using Trapcode Form as the basis to display video, he shows how to use the audio reactors built in to form to achieve something very very cool.

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  Create an Effect Inspired by the Bourne Ultimatum End Credits Sequence

  In a very clever use of Trapcode Particular, this tutorial shows us how to create an effect that is inspired by the Bourne Ultimatum end credits sequence.

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  Create a Split-Flap Type Display

  Split-Flap-What? It’s the term used for displays that are found in train stations and airports, where they typically display departure and/or arrival information and do that cool flipping of letters to display the new information.

  This tutorial does not show how to create the effect from scratch but instead it is a tutorial to explain how to use the project file created by Mattias Peresini who runs the totally awesome mattrunks website which has incredible tutorials for After Effects in French. We are very happy to have Mattias doing his first English tutorial for us here at Aetuts+.

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  Create a Sci-Fi Movie Title Sequence

  This tutorial covers the creation of a space-like si-fi title sequence from scratch. Michael shows us how you can easily create a visually interesting and impressive title animation with some simple title cards and text animation. The tutorial uses the Twitch plugin from Video Copilot, though a similar effect could be obtained by manual keyframing.

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  Create a Surprising Billowing Cloth Reveal

  It’s amazing how much pseudo-3D you can do in After Effects today. This tutorial will focus on using a new plugin that brings 3D bicubic deformations to layers that allows you to truly bend and twist layers in 3D space. If you are familiar with 3D packages, this is true displacement as opposed to just bump mapping.

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Nettuts+ – Web Development

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  24 JavaScript Best Practices for Beginners

  As a follow-up to “30 HTML and CSS Best Practices”, this week, we’ll review JavaScript! Once you’ve reviewed the list, be sure to let us know what little tips you’ve come across!

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  20 Tools to Make the Life of a Web Developer Easier

  Developing a well-rounded aesthetically pleasing website can be a daunting task even for the most seasoned web developer. You must identify current trends and standards and determine ways to incorporate them into your designs. Luckily, there are many free tools which are available that can help you speed up your efforts and work in a more efficient manner. Below are 20 tools which are sure to benefit all developers.

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  Outside the Box Navigation With jQuery

  Just about every website uses the regular navigation concepts we’re all used to. After awhile this can get pretty boring, especially for designers who thrive on creativity. While mimicking the OS X dock and stacks isn’t new, it’s certainly not common.

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  10 Essential SQL Tips for Developers

  SQL is yet another essential language for developers wishing to create data-driven websites. However, many developers are unfamiliar with various aspects of SQL; so in this article, we’ll analyze ten essential tips.

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  Build a Custom CMS Using PHP and MySQLi: New Plus Tutorial

  In this video tutorial, we’ll be building a custom Content Management System (CMS) using PHP and MySQLi. We’ll start off by pulling our content from a MySQL database and then build a CMS admin panel to manage our content. For easy content management, we will be using TinyMCE as our editor. I hope you enjoy the screencast. Join today!

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Flashtuts+ – Flash, ActionScript, Flex

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  Animate a Continuous Quad Run Cycle With Flash

  In this tutorial we’ll create a quad run cycle. The animation will be created using simple lines. Along the way we’ll cover a bit of work flow and animation theory, then near the end we’ll use Motion Tween and ActionScript to move the animal across the screen.

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  Create an Apple Inspired Flash Preloader

  Preloaders are a must have in your Flash applications. They tell the user that the program is running but can’t show any contents until they’re sufficiently loaded. In this tutorial I’ll help you create an Apple inspired preloader MovieClip and teach you how to display some loading information. All this using Flash and ActionScript 3.0.

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  50 Flash Twitterers Worth Following

  There’s no denying how useful Twitter can be when it comes to trawling the web for content. With that in mind, here’s a quick roundup of 50 twitterers who tweet some of the most useful Flash-related content around.

  (It goes almost without saying; if you have any more who deserve a mention, we want to hear them!)

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  Using the YouTube Player API with ActionScript 3.0

  Though more and more of us are developing with AS3, certain technologies remain in AS2. This forces us to find fast, simple ways to use these technologies within our projects. One such technology is YouTube.

  The current YouTube player is still in AS2 and until it’s updated to AS3, we have to create a wrapper to allow us to load videos into our projects. Remember, stealing the FLV feed is against YouTube’s terms and conditions, so let’s do it the right way using the chromed or chromeless player.

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  AS3 101

  Pads are an extremely useful device for all styles of music, allowing for warm, calming, uplifting, sad, ominous, or even threatening effects. This tutorial shows you one simple way to create your own unique pads.

  Creating your own pads is yet another way to help build a custom library and develop a personal voice. And by having more control over the various elements that make up your pad, you have more freedom to add subtle layers of complexity and imperfection for an organic sound.

  AS3 101: Variables, AS3 101: Functions.

Audiotuts+ – Audio and Music

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  How to Use Saturation Effectively

  Saturation is an often misunderstood process, sometimes written off as basic distortion effect, too subtle for most uses. While this isn’t entirely inaccurate, saturation has a lot to offer and can impart a true analog flavor on our mixes if used correctly. Most saturation plug-ins are pretty simple devices, but the real key to using the effect is understanding how it works. Let’s take a look at the process in detail and then we can go through a few examples of a few saturation plug-ins in action.

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  A Guide to the Electric Guitar

  This article is a general overview of the electric guitar. We cover the woods, acoustic sound, construction, necks and fretboards, pickups and hardware and show you how to purchase and maintain an electric guitar that you’ll love for years to come.

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  7 Places to Find Inspiration for Songs

  Where do you find inspiration? It is as intangible and elusive as a ghost. You know when you have it, and can’t manufacture it when you don’t. Without it, creative work is a chore, and often a fuitless one. With it, magic happens.

  The question of where inspiration comes from interests me, and over the years I’ve kept notes about where the inspiration for successful songs has come from. It has been found in many and varied places. Most of all, it comes from real life – especially from sincere insights into life truths, and emotional responses to events and relationships. Some artists seem to have discovered ways to help the creative process, and inspire inspiration.

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  Working With the Intangibles of a Mix — Audio Plus

  In this week’s Audio Plus content, Bobby Owsinski teaches us how to set about creating a mix that works beyond the basic techniques of getting levels right. This tutorial is about planning the mix and creating the balance that makes everything come together. Bobby is the author of many best-selling audio books including The Mixing Engineer’s Handbook — this is a tutorial of expert advice that’s not to be missed!

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  How to Use Reverb to Create Your Own Pads

  Pads are an extremely useful device for all styles of music, allowing for warm, calming, uplifting, sad, ominous, or even threatening effects. This tutorial shows you one simple way to create your own unique pads.

  Creating your own pads is yet another way to help build a custom library and develop a personal voice. And by having more control over the various elements that make up your pad, you have more freedom to add subtle layers of complexity and imperfection for an organic sound.

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Psdtuts+ – Adobe Photoshop

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  Making Sense of the Warp Tool – It’s All About the Lines

  Every now and then a project comes along that challenges me to use one of Photoshop’s tools more than ever. This particular image was part of a series of ads I was working on with photographer Richard Radstone for a clothing line based in Colombia, South America. he challenge with this one was to wrap an accordion around the palm tree like a giant snake.

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  It’s Time to Create a’Neo-Constructivist’ Poster with Photoshop

  Constructivist graphic design is often associated with communist politics and propaganda, but it’s more than that, Constructivism is about using bright colors, playing with lightness, perspective, geometrical forms, besides photomontage techniques and digital collage. This time I’ll dare to name this tutorial a ‘Neo-Constructivist’ design. It’s time to get started!

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  Illustrate a Sensitive Subject Using Poser, Cinema 4D, and Photoshop – Psd Plus Tutorial

  We have another Psd Plus tutorial exclusively available to Plus members today. If you want to take your illustrative skills to the next dimension, then we have an exciting tutorial for you. Discover how to use Multiple 3D programs to create a composed render, then use Photoshop to add texture, polish, and refinement!

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  Creating a Spy Fly Photo Manipulation

  Welcome to a new Photoshop based tutorial. This time I’ll try to describe the main steps in creating a dead robot fly. Before we get started, I would like to thank Hortensiu Milstein (Personal Portfolio) for the great collaboration. We decided to make this tutorial a year ago, but the lack of time postponed the realization of this tut. This piece was actually created for a contest and off course the first prize was the result. The concept of this illustration was to take a picture and be creative, use parts of that image and create something unique. So, let’s get to it!

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  How to Create a Moka Express Icon

  The staple of every Italian breakfast is home espresso coffee, brewed with the iconic ‘Moka Express’ pot. In this tutorial, we’ll create a Moka entirely from scratch using shapes, layer effects and a bunch of productivity-enhancing tips. We will then proceed to turn our design into a Leopard and Vista-ready professional icon. So get your coffee mugs ready and let’s start brewing!

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Vectortuts+ – Vector & Illustrator

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  How to Create a Rocketing, Vector Aircraft Shuttle

  In this tutorial, we’ll be creating a illustration of a speeding aircraft shuttle. It’s going to be all vector, but along the way we’ll use blends, and other techniques that give this rocketing aircraft an interesting look. Let’s get to it!

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  How to Create a Stinking Zombie Flesh-Eater in Illustrator

  In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a cartoon zombie in Illustrator. Starting by creating a fresh corpse, we will then ‘yuck’ it up using a number of techniques. Let’s ‘rip’ this one apart!

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  How to Create a Smokin’ Western Type Treatment in Illustrator

  In this easy tutorial, I will show you how to create a western type treatment primary using Illustrator’s Effects. Using the effects from this tutorial, you can easily apply them to other type treatment and logos. Let’s get started!

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  How to Design a Custom Newspaper Icon – Vector Plus Tutorial

  We have another great Vector Plus tutorial available exclusively for Plus members today. If you want to learn how to craft a custom newspaper icon in Illustrator, then we have an awesome tutorial for you. In this tutorial, Jonathan takes us through the process of using Illustrator’s tools to construct this icon. Learn more about this tutorial at the jump!

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  How to Create a Fun, Illustrated Skateboard Design

  Today we are going to be making a skateboard design. I will show you how I turned a funky looking character into the skateboard you see. The great thing about skateboard designs is that there are no limitations whatsoever. You can make a skateboard design about anything you want and let’s learn how!

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(It goes almost without saying; if you have any more who deserve a mention, we want to hear them!)

Individuals

Developers and bloggers who push themselves as much as their platforms and applications, then bring you what they’ve discovered.

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  LordAlex

  Name: LordAlex Leon
  Location: Montreal
  Bio: Flash Platform Consultant

  @LordAlex

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  leebrimelow

  Name: Lee Brimelow
  Location: San Mateo, California
  Bio: Platform Evangelist

  @leebrimelow

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  JoshuaDavis

  Name: Joshua Davis
  Location: New York
  Bio: I sell forms and colors for a living.

  @JoshuaDavis

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  mchaize

  Name: mchaize
  Location: Paris, France
  Bio: Adobe LiveCycle & Flex expert.

  @mchaize

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  Michael_Plank

  Name: Michael Plank
  Location: Germany
  Bio: FDT Evangelist, Software/Game Developer, Teacher, Trainer

  @Michael_Plank

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  ddura

  Name: Daniel Dura
  Location: Garland, TX
  Bio: Platform Evangelist at Adobe Systems focusing on AIR, Flash, and Flex

  @ddura

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  Aktionscripter

  Name: ActionscriptArtist
  Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
  Bio: Currently I’m an Actionscript UI Artist at a gaming company.

  @Aktionscripter

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  ryanstewart

  Name: Ryan Stewart
  Location: Seattle, WA 98107
  Bio: I obsess over Rich Internet Applications and work at Adobe as a Platform Evangelist

  @ryanstewart

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  richtretola

  Name: Rich Tretola
  Location: Indianapolis, IN
  Bio: AIR and Flex developer, author, and community evangelist. Adobe Community Expert and InsideRIA Community Manager.

  @richtretola

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  mdowney

  Name: Mike Downey
  Location: San Francisco, CA
  Bio: Product Manager and Technology Evangelist. Expert in Adobe software including Flash, Flex, and AIR. Now building iPhone apps.

  @mdowney

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  neave

  Name: Paul Neave
  Location: London
  Bio: Interactive Designer, Flasher and Professional Twit

  @neave

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  FlashGuru

  Name: Guy Watson
  Location: UK
  Bio: Freelance Flashaholic

  @FlashGuru

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  gskinner

  Name: Grant Skinner
  Bio: gskinner.com/blog/

  @gskinner

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  sebleedelisle

  Name: Seb
  Location: Brighton
  Bio: Flasher, technical director@pluginmedia.net, papervision3D team member, conference speaker, writer

  @sebleedelisle

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  peterelst

  Name: Peter Elst
  Location: Belgium
  Bio: Flash Platform – Consultancy & Training

  @peterelst

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  sjespers

  Name: Serge Jespers
  Location: Belgium
  Bio: Platform evangelist @ Adobe and loving every minute of it

  @sjespers

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  jonbcampos

  Name: Jonathan Campos
  Location: Dallas, Texas
  Bio: D-Flex.org :: Dallas Flex User Group Manager

  @jonbcampos

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  swfgeek

  Name: David Gamez
  Location: Monterrey Mexico
  Bio: Illustrator and Flash Developer currently working at Grupo W as Senior Flash Developer

  @swfgeek

Adobe’s Top of the Class

The following Twitterers are listed by Adobe as being amongst the most influential Flash Designers and Developers the world has to offer..

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  vortex

  Name: Matt Voerman
  Location: San Francisco
  Bio: Flash Platform powered Rich internet application maniac

  @vortex

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  mocaloca

  Name: MocaLoca
  Location: Australia

  @mocaloca

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  rblank9

  Name: R Blank
  Location: Venice Beach, California, USA
  Bio: Entrepreneur, Technologist, Speaker, Writer & Community Leader

  @rblank9

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  rafiqelmansy

  Name: Rafiq Elmansy
  Location: Cairo, Egypt
  Bio: Creative Designer, Adobe Community Expert, Adobe User Group Manager

  @rafiqelmansy

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  bitchwhocodes

  Name: Stacey Mulcahy
  Location: Ottawa, Ontario
  Bio: I’m not who i say i am.

  @bitchwhocodes

Groups

They’re the businesses, the forums, the apps, the events and the collectives who put Flash out there for the masses.

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  Powerflasher

  Name: Powerflasher Team
  Location: iPhone: 50.786594,6.081070
  Bio: May the Flash be with you

  @Powerflasher

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  air

  Name: Adobe AIR
  Location: Your Desktop
  Bio: I am a cross platform desktop runtime (run by @ryanstewart)

  @air

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  flashallstars

  Name: Flash Allstars
  Bio: Be a web star!

  @flashallstars

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  flashontap

  Name: Flash on Tap
  Location: Boston, Massachusetts
  Bio: Beer Festival and Flash Technology Conference in one! “code. create. raise the bar”

  @flashontap

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  adobeflash

  Name: adobeflash
  Location: San Francisco
  Bio: Flash Product Manager

  @adobeflash

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  FITC

  Name: FITC
  Location: Toronto, Amsterdam, Seoul
  Bio: I am a design and technology event. I try to inspire and educate people.

  @FITC

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  flexughh

  Name: flexughh
  Location: Hamburg / Germany
  Bio: Flex User Group Hamburg / Germany

  @flexughh

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  AdobeSXSW

  Name: Adobe SXSW
  Location: San Jose, California
  Bio: Official Adobe SXSW information Center. Interactive Web Awards, CS4, Flash, Flex, AIR & exclusive party info distributed via this Twitter account.

  @AdobeSXSW

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  flashforum

  Name: flashforum
  Bio: Flashforum, Flash Community for Flex and Flash

  @flashforum

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  flex

  Name: Flex Framework

  @flex

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  360Flex

  Name: 360Flex
  Location: iPhone: 39.760606,-104.985176
  Bio: Best Flex Conference out there!

  @360Flex

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  adobemax

  Name: Adobe MAX
  Location: Los Angeles
  Bio: Connect. Discover. Inspire.

  @adobemax

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  flashbelt

  Name: dave schroeder
  Location: Minneapolis
  Bio: I put on the flashbelt conference in Minneapolis. I also do music + sound design for interactive. www.pilotvibe.com

  @flashbelt

Envato

A likely bunch if ever I saw one. You may recognize this lot from their contributions to Flashtuts+ and FlashDen. Good work guys!

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  TheFlashBum

  Name: Jesse Freeman
  Location: NYC
  Bio: I am a homeless Flash Developer

  @TheFlashBum

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  ahmednuaman

  Name: Ahmed Nuaman
  Location: UK
  Bio: I’m a freelance designer and developer with a first class degree in Interaction Design. I have strong knowledge of the web design and development industry

  @ahmednuaman

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  cg219

  Name: Clemente G
  Location: NYC
  Bio: Flash Developer @Marvel – Author @FlashTuts+, @WebDesignerMag, @FlashDen

  @cg219

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  UltraVisual

  Name: Shane Johnson
  Location: London
  Bio: Flash designer and actionscript developer

  @UltraVisual

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  FlashDenNet

  Name: FlashDen
  Location: The Web
  Bio: Awesome FlashDen Files, Community, News & Chatter

  @FlashDenNet

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  digital_science

  Name: Digital Science
  Location: South Africa
  Bio: Multimedia Design / FlashDen Author

  @digital_science

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  oxylus

  Name: Oxylus Flash

  @oxylus

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  andreipotorac

  Name: Andrei Potorac
  Location: Iasi, Romania
  Bio: CEO Vuzum – www.vuzum.com

  @andreipotorac

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  bensonarts

  Name: Aaron Benson
  Location: Fort Worth
  Bio: Interactive Director at Rassai Interactive; Flash enthusiast

  @bensonarts

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  chuckFD

  Name: Chuckanucka
  Location: UK

  @chuckFD

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  SaafiDesign

  Name: Sher Ali
  Bio: CEO of Lucid Studios, Flash Developer and Provide Reviewer at Envato Market Places

  @SaafiDesign

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  RimV

  Name: Rimmon
  Location: Sydney, Australia
  Bio: Flash Developer – Musician

  @RimV

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  RyanTerryLLC

  Name: Ryan Terry
  Location: Brooklyn, NY
  Bio: Illustration + Design

  @RyanTerryLLC

Not Forgetting Of Course..

Come on, you didn’t think I was going to miss an opportunity to plug the Flashtuts+ twitter account, did you?

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  flashtuts

  Name: Flashtuts+
  Location: Earth
  Bio: Flash Tutorials, Techniques, News and Awesomeness

  @flashtuts

Psdtuts+ – Adobe Photoshop

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  How to Turn Humdrum Photos into Cinematic Portraits

  There are a plethora of ways to treat a portrait for a myriad of uses, but that is for another feature. Let’s tackle adding drama or a cinematic quality to a regular, humdrum portrait. Let’s even throw in a little bit of faking HDR. That way if you work on a project that requires a stunning shot without the stunning photography, you’ll be able to cobble something together using your mad skillz!

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  A Comprehensive Introduction to the Type Tool

  Who doesn’t know the Type Tool? This is maybe one of the most powerful and useful tools of Photoshop. We’ve all used it at least once, but do you know all its potential? That’s why I decided to write a comprehensive guide about Photoshop’s Type tool, including do’s and don’ts of the most important features of this tool.

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  Create an Out of Bounds Fantasy Illustration

  Here is another illustration I have worked on with Toma Alin Gabriel. Worked on this piece with a lot of images and I would also like to thank the photographers for giving us permission to use their stuff. In this tutorial, we will take you through the process of creating a fantasy scene, make water pour out of a painting, make some sort of a absorption effect and end up with a really nice looking color. The main idea behind this surreal illustration is that we are actually in a painting and the painting on the wall is the real world, the world where our vulture tries to escape.

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  How to Illustrate Type Using Cinema 4D and Photoshop – Psd Plus Tutorial

  We have another professional Psd Plus tutorial exclusively available to Plus members today. If you want to take your Photoshop 3D type skill to the next level, then we have an exciting tutorial for you. Discover how to render shapes into C4D to create mechanical looking pieces that you can use to construct awesome typographic works with!

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  How to Create a Hellacious Flaming Skull in Photoshop

  In this tutorial, we’ll go through all the steps of creating a flaming skull in Photoshop. We’ll be using some images we shot ourself of flames, and a stock Designious vector skull to get us started. This tutorial covers some relatively simple steps and some clever photo manipulation techniques. Let’s get to it!

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  How to Create Super-Malleable Effects with Colorful Lines

  These days colorful lines are one of the most malleable effects you can easily create in Photoshop. They simply fit everywhere and can look really awesome. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create these fantastic colorful effects using only Photoshop. I’ll show you how to compose illustration with these effects. Let’s get to it!

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  How to Create a Grunge Style Illustration with Stains

  Inspired by the article “18+ Sources of Inspiration from Coffee, Ink, Blood and other Stains,” by Steven Snell, I decided to show my personal way of creating stain based designs in Photoshop. In this tutorial, we’ll grab a picture, apply several filters to it and obtain a monochromatic stain, which combined with stain brushes and a texture will transform into an eye-catching grunge result. Let’s get it started!

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  Creating a Touching Story Scene in Photoshop

  I worked on this illustration especially for you with Ciursa Ionut, he is the founder of PSDBURN where he writes Photoshop tutorials. He started working in Photoshop many years ago when he began to utilize this great tool all the time. In this tutorial, you are going to create a story scene using photo manipulation and a lot of color adjustments.

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  How to Apply Textures to Uneven Surfaces

  Applying texture to a flat surface, or flatly applying a texture across a whole image (as a means to age it or degrade it) is simple stuff. Realistically applying a texture to an uneven surface is much more hands-on (more so than simply overlaying a texture and changing the Blending mode).

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  Design Cool Game Graphics Using Displacement Maps – Psd Plus Tutorial

  We have another great Psd Plus tutorial exclusively available to Plus members today. If you want to take your game design skills to the next level, then we have an awesome tutorial for you. Discover how to use Photoshop tools to blend graphics, textures, and a Cinema 4D creature into an awesome game cover design. Learn more about this informative and advanced tut at the jump!

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Vectortuts+ – Vector & Adobe Illustrator

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  How to Create a Vector Illustration and Prepare it for Micro-Stock Sale

  This tutorial details a professional workflow for creating vector illustrations and prepping the artwork for these sites. I’ve also included a bunch of time-saving tools and tips as well. Let’s get started!

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  How to Illustrate a LeBron James Cartoon Character

  Hello fellow vector artists, I am a cartoonist/illustrator who specialized in retro style vector cartoons. You can find more of my work and books at my web site. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how I use Adobe Illustrator to create vector cartoons.

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  Learn a Professional Workflow for Illustrating a Comic-Style Header Image

  In this tutorial, we’ll review a professional workflow for illustrating website header images in comic style, which are destined to integrate into Wordpress themes. This is a great way to make your blog stand out and get promoted on the top web design galleries. Let’s get started!

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  How to Create an Alarm Clock Icon

  With simple shapes and gradients, this easy tutorial will show you how to create an alarm clock icon. We’ll be using Illustrator CS4 for this tutorial, but those of you with older version should be able to follow along as well. Let’s jump into this tutorial, which beginning illustrators will find especially useful!

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  Accentuating with Color in Vector Illustration – Vector Plus Tutorial

  We have another great Vector Plus tutorial exclusively available to Plus members today. If you want to learn how to control your shading and coloring with your vector art, then we have an awesome tutorial for you. Learn a professional workflow for creating color controlled vector illustrations, along with numerous other techniques!

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  How To Make A Skateboard For Digital Printing – Vector Plus Tutorial

  We have another great Vector Plus tutorial exclusively available to Plus members today. If you want to learn how to create skate graphics with Illustrator CS4 techniques, then we have an awesome tutorial for you. Learn how to create skate graphics with shapes, lines, and patterns, and mount them on a board, then prep for digital printing!

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  How to Create Exploded Isometrics

  Exploded isometrics are my subject in this third and final tutorial on the topic of isometrics. If you have not read either of the first two tutorials on isometrics, then I suggest you start with them: Basic Isometrics and Orthographics and Advanced Isometrics Using the SSR Method.

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  How to Create Cartoon Characters from Everyday Objects – Vector Plus Tutorial

  We have another great Vector Plus tutorial exclusively available to Plus members today. If you want to learn how to create novel cartoon characters, then we have a fun tutorial for you. Learn how to create characters from everyday objects that work great for illustrated cartoon style posters!

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  The Mechanics of Comics

  As an audience we accept comics for what they are; a medium, conveyors of information. What we less often realize is the technicality and process of how that information has been communicated to us. This is a good thing. When the artist gets it right, the comic book reader becomes immersed in what’s being told – not how.

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  Create a Milk Bottle with a Funny Cow Label

  In this tutorial, we’ll explain how to create a 3D milk bottle. We’ll also cover how to create and apply a cute cow label to it. Let’s have some fun with this one!

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Nettuts+ – Web Development

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  How I Can Code Twice as Fast as You

  We’re all familiar with text expander programs; though I would surmise that the percentage of us who use them when coding is quite low. To change things up a bit, today I’m going to you how to create custom text-expander scripts that will save you a great deal of time. If you’re unfamiliar with such programs, you must watch this! After reviewing the screencast and tutorial, I’d love to hear how you save time when developing.

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  How to Add Variables to Your CSS Files

  Let’s try something different on nettuts+ today. Any designer who has worked with large CSS files will agree that its major weakness is its inability to use variables. In this article, we will learn how to implement variables by using PHP and Apache’s URL rewrite mod.

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  The 13 Most Essential Plugins for WordPress

  WordPress is a very powerful and flexible blog/content management system, but the thousands of plugins really help to extend the basic functionality. Here are 13 essential plugins that you should immediately install after finishing the WordPress installation.

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  How to Build a Super Duper News Scroller

  This week, we’ll learn how to combine PHP, SimplePie, and jQuery to build a simple news scroller widget for your website. It’s much easier than you might think; so let’s begin.

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  10 Challenging but Awesome Flash Techniques

  These days, most Flash developers know how to circumvent the multimedia platform’s short-comings and properly utilize its strengths. Here are some very clever Flash techniques that you can apply to your site, making them more useful, beautiful and unique.

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  Design a Beautiful Website from Scratch

  Have you ever wanted to design a beautiful website but just didn’t know how? To be honest, a few years ago, that happened to me too. While browsing the web, I saw so many nice looking websites and wished I had the skills to create such designs. Today I can and I’m going to teach you how to do so too! Essentially, it requires a few Photoshop skills and an eye for detail. Through this tutorial, I will point out these tiny details which make a website design look beautiful. Fire up Photoshop and let’s get going!

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  20 More Excellent AJAX Effects You Should Know

  Back in October we wowed you with 20 Excellent Ajax Effects You Should Know. The post went on to become one of the most popular ever published at Nettuts+. This time around we have twenty more equally excellent Ajax effects for you to know and love.

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  How to Become a Freelance Web Developer

  Have you ever wanted to be a freelance web developer? Whether you’re working for the man or developing as a hobby, there are some tried and tested tips you can use to ease yourself into the life of a freelance web developer – even if you only do it part-time.

  So today we’re going to go over how to actually become a freelance web developer, and all that goes with it.

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  The Best PSD to HTML to Wordpress Video Series Available: New Plus Tutorial

  Since I began running Nettuts+ nearly a year ago, the number one tutorial request I’ve received is for a PSD to WordPress screencast. Today, we’re releasing a complete series on our Plus site. Over the course of fourteen videos, I will personally teach you how to take a PSD design and convert first to HTML, and then to a dynamic WordPress site. This was a massive undertaking; I hope you’ll consider signing up if it interests you.

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  Fun With CSS Shapes

  I bet a bunch of you don’t realize that we can create the illusion of shapes by using 100% CSS. By utilizing the border property in creative ways, we can make some really interesting polygons. In this week’s screencast, we’ll figure out a way to create speech-bubbles without resorting to background images.

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Audiotuts+ – Music & Audio

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  A Basic Guide to Acoustic Treatment

  After touching on the critical subject of acoustics and room treatment in a few recent tutorials, I felt it was fitting to create a basic guide to acoustically treating your work space. I get asked about this subject a lot so I’m hoping a run down of the essential technique and kit needed will be of some help to readers.

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  The Process of Score Composition

  This tutorial marks the first in a series of tutorials on composition – specifically composition that might be appropriate for film and television. In this piece, we’ll talk a bit about the philosophy behind this particular series of tutorials, and get into the process of composition itself.

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  Getting More From Your Tracks With Delay

  Delay is a simple device with a wealth of possibilities for adding interest and production value to your tracks. This tutorial will examine different ways that delay can improve the sound of your music and inspire creativity.

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  Creating Run Machines in Reason’s Combinator

  Some of Reason’s most-loved patches are the Combinator’s [RUN] patches. These patches are very useful as the Combinator plays along with your song, often inspiring as song starters or templates. However, it is scary to turn the rack around and see hundreds of cables go from this device to that device. It’s not that complex; once you’ve figured it out you can make great background patterns and drum machine templates for your songs.

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  Create Gated Sequence Effects with Ultrabeat

  Ultrabeat is Logic’s secret weapon when it comes to drum sounds, but it can also double as a extremely powerful gate sequencer. In this tutorial we’ll take one pad sound and create a complex layered sequence. There’s a screencast to follow along with!

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  The Top 6 New Features of Cubase 5

  The new version of Cubase has landed with some pretty impressive new features that will be interesting to both new and seasoned users alike. Let’s take a look at a few ground-breaking features the new version has to offer and see if these latest additions keep Cubase up there with the other big guns.

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  How to Create Excitement in Your Music With Tremolo

  Tremolo was always one of those plug-ins that my eyes completely skipped past. It wasn’t until some experimenting and tips from other composers that I began to see the potential behind this simple device.

  In this tutorial we’ll look at some examples of how tremolo can help you make some truly interesting and unique sounds, including several techniques used to create the final piece from the “How To Create a Compelling Ostinato” tutorial.

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  20 Ways to Keep Evolving as a Musician

  I started to learn to play music properly when I was twenty. I bought the books, practiced for an hour or two a day, and got some lessons. I could often sense my progress, but not always. There was something new to learn each day, and from time to time I could tell my playing jumped up to the next level. But that was over half a lifetime ago, and though music has always been an important part of my life since then, I haven’t always had the time to play regularly.

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  How to Achieve Good Translation in Your Mixes

  What is ‘translation’ and how does it relate to our mixes? A mix that displays good translation will play back well on a number of sound systems, with all its individual elements remaining clear and balanced. In this tutorial, we look at how you can achieve this with your own mixes.

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  The Producer’s Guide to Putting Passion Into Vocal Delivery

  “It’s in the can,” “On tape” and “It’s a wrap!” You all gather in the plush leather, shag-pile comfort of the engineering room and wait as the final touches are put to the mix. Anticipation is running high, everything is technically perfect, the rhythm tracks tock to the clock of the heart with precision and feel, perfectly locking in and connecting the bottom end to the mids and linking them to the highs with emphatic punctuation into an harmonious arrangement that captures the feel and energy of live.

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Aetuts+ – Adobe After Effects

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  Create an Elegantly Handwritten Text Reveal

  In this tutorial you will learn how to animate a handwritten text sequence with ink bleeding through the paper to create an elegant old-world style title reveal.

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  Create a Stunning Website Demo Presentation

  As our world moves more and more onto the internet there are lots of websites that are worth showing off. In this tutorial Markus shows us how to create a clean and elegant solution to show off your favorite site.

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  Dunk Your Logo in a Wave World

  Adam brings back his charm in this tutorial that is all about the rarely used Wave World plugin. You will learn all the ins and outs about this plugin that can even do 3D!

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  Create a Breakup Into Particles Logo Transition

  A very popular request is how to make a logo breakup into particles and reform into another logo. There’s many ways to achieve this and most of them require a full 3D application, but in this tutorial we learn how to achieve it all in After Effects using a 3D particle systems and a few smoke and mirrors.

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  Create a Stormy, Electric Type Reveal

  This tutorial gives a different twist on how to use the powerful Form plug-in. Learn how to use it to create a mysterious and electric type reveal.

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  Create a Breathtakingly Awesome Rain Scene

  In this massive 2 part tutorial inspired by the work of Pierre Michel, Alex Verlan shows us how to create the dramatic slow motion rain drops falling scene entirely within After Effects.

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  Create an Ethereal Morphing Letter Canvas

  Once in a while a new (or in this case very rarely used) technique appears on the scene and suddenly you start seeing it everywhere. Well we have a feeling that this is going to be one of those. In this tutorial Satya shows us how to use the built-in radio waves plugin to create an incredibly beautiful and ethereal animation of morphing letters.

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  Animate Type the Old-school Way

  It’s easy to get excited over the latest plugin or technology, but that inevitably leads to stuff that all looks the same. So to get something new and original, sometimes you just need to go Old School! Before computers, the way to produce type animations was to get creative with some props and a camera. Lloyd shows us how to use some reflective paper and a camera to capture some very fresh type animation. Of course he will also show you how to use After Effects as a finishing tool to bring it all together; this is Aetuts+ after all!

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  Create a Mysterious Smoky Logo Reveal

  In this fun tutorial, Adam walks us through the write-on effect as well as a new way to implement trapcode’s particular to create the popular simulation of an appearing wisp of smoke. He shows us some options to this effect as well how to customize any logo apply these principles in any way you wish.

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  Design an Awesome 80’s Inspired Title Animation

  We are very happy to welcome Nick Campbell (aka The Greyscale Gorilla) to the Aetuts+ family. He’s an incredibly talented designer and a fantastic teacher. In his first tutorial for us he shows us how to create this awesome 80’s style title animation. He covers a whole bunch of awesome little tips that are sure be useful on any After Effects project.

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  flashTexteditor Suite

  Create powerful Rich Internet applications and Flash content management systems with a set of powerful text editing and image management Flash components. The suite includes the flashTexteditor and new flashTexteditor2 components as well as the flashTexteditor 2 for Flex component.

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  flashTexteditor lite

  This is a lite version of the FlashTexteditor component. This is a v2 Macromedia Flash component which provides a user friendly toolbar for runtime content editing of any flash textfield. This Flash MX 2004 developer component can be used to create Rich Internet applications in Flash.

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  advancedLoader Pro

  This is the PRO version of the advancedLoader component. Easily create slideshows without the need for ActionScript. Build slideshows with component parameters, XML or dynamically generate them from the contents of a web folder. Over forty customizable effects provide a variety of transition options. The ideal solution for loading sequential images in Flash.

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  fCMS Pro

  This pro version of the fCMS component is a full Flash Content Management System which allows you to design, edit and update your web pages without ever leaving your browser window. The exciting new template based system allows you to add and delete pages dynamically. The content of your Flash site is also fully indexable and searchable by search engines. Using the advanced backend templating system, you can also create dynamically generated RSS feeds of the content of your Flash website.

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  TxEff2

  TxEff is a Flash CS3/CS4 AS3 component (by JumpeyeComponents) created for easing the creation of Flash text effects. It is also a collection of tens of transition patterns (and growing) that enable cool effects on texts within Flash. FlashEff can be used/customized from both the visual interface and code.

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  FlashEff

  FlashEff is an advanced Flash effects component (works both on Flash CS3 and Flash CS4, AS3.0) developed by JumpeyeComponents for easing the animation/transition process. It is also a collection of over 140 effect patterns (and growing) that enable cool transition effects and interactive actions on visual objects and texts. FlashEff can be fully used/customized from both the visual interface and from code.

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  FlashTextFX

  FlashTextFX is a Flash component that creates an unlimited number of high quality text effects in Flash. Includes an easy to use custom interface with real time preview. Option to add multiple effects per textfield. Effects can be saved and loaded for future projects. Customizable scale, position, rotation, opacity, tint, blur and glow. Available for ActionScript 3.0 (Flash CS3/CS4) only.

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  Origamy

  Origramy is graph editor/viewer component. It can be used to create complex graphs presentations, save them and use the same component as graph viewer.

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  JC Flash Map

  JC Flash Map is an Adobe Flash CS3/CS4 ActionScript 3.0 component used to display online maps from all of the major map providers: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, Microsoft Maps and OpenStreetMap. You can use the component to navigate through the map and pin down selected location with custom defined markers. This component can also be customized by you so you can fully integrate it in your applications and websites.

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  Thumbnail Slider

  ThumbnailSlider is a navigation component that enables you to load a set of images, swf’s or symbols from the library or fed from an xml file. You can scroll through it with the help of the arrows, or simply depending on the mouse position.

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  FlippingBook Flash Component

  FlippingBook Flash Component enables use of flash books in projects developed with Adobe Flash. Using the flash component you can create not only online flash books, but also offline Windows and MacOS applications which use page flip effect. This product is essential for developing websites and presentations using flash.

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  pageFlipper

  Engage your users with truly intuitive browsing experiences with the pageFlipper, a Flash component that enables magazine style flipping of pages. Sensational when used for company brochures, family photo albums or editorial style content. With realistic page turning effects introduce an enhanced sense of interaction to your users.

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  Partigen

  A real time Flash engine capable of creating realistic Flash effects such as smoke and explosions. Every single particle is made within Flash at runtime with zero render time. Partigen includes the engine, the emitter and the particles, which are fully customizable at design and runtime. Create and access particles through a user friendly custom interface and/or ActionScript. This Flash component is available for ActionScript 2.0 only.

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  flyCharts

  FlyCharts is a new version (2.0) of flash charts component. The second version brings you more ways to visualize your data, much more rich and customizable interface, fast and easy tuning of your component. And please note – it’s still free for private individuals, still tiny and fast!

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  3D Carousel (AS 3.0)

  The ActionScript 3.0 3D Carousel component allows you to display collections of DisplayObjects (images, MoveClips, etc) in a 3D carousel view. Built using Papervision3D.

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  QG BuyNow

  QG BuyNow; a drag and drop solution to Flash and PayPal integration to have you up and selling in minutes. The simplest solution to Flash and PayPal based e-commerce available. Seamlessly integrates into any Actionscript 3 file.

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  3DEnvironment

  The 3DEnvironment is a Flash component that allows you to build 3D interactive interfaces and environments in Flash. Built-in depth and perspective effects create the illusion of three dimensions.

  Customizable controls and full keyboard and mouse interactivity enable movement and rotation of the environment. Use simple graphic or movie clip symbols as well as external objects and animated movie clips. Requires no 3D modeling.

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  SlideShowPro

  The BEST of them all!

  SlideShowPro for Flash is distributed in two forms: an extension for Flash and as a standalone, customizable SWF for web developers without Flash. Both are included in the single purchase. The product comes with full documentation, customization tips, access to the members-only account center for product demos, and free support.

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  SlideShowPro Director

  SlideShowPro Director is installed on your web server (or hosted by SlideShowPro) and is "always on" to supply content to one or more SWFs containing SlideShowPro. You can batch upload a group of images or videos through a web browser, or via FTP with the self-install version. After installation, all management and slideshow content updating can be performed through a web browser.

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  PhotoBUSTER CS

  PhotoBUSTER CS is a utility used for real time capturing movieclips/graphics inside your flash to bitmap. The bitmap can be output to client or sent to server, supporting output to .jpg and .png format. Built in stylish toolbar with customizable skin. To add text and draw on your movieclip/graphics on the fly. No action script needed and includes all necessary server script.

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Now it’s your turn! What are your favorite Flash Components? Post them in the comments, I’d love to hear them!