ilike2 i. posted an article on ilike2Flash - Adobe Flash tutorials - Nov 28, 2009, 9:57 am
The kind people over at extendstudio.com have given me copy of the Creative TextFX V2 to review. Firstly, Creative TextFX V2 is a Flash component that gives you access to over 300 text effects. These....
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ilike2 i. posted an article on ilike2photoshop - Photoshop tutorials - Nov 27, 2009, 7:51 am
In all versions of Photoshop there are various secret Easter eggs. It seems to be a tradition to include these Easter eggs. All the versions have a pop up window with a little wizard called... Co...
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ilike2 i. posted an article on ilike2photoshop - Photoshop tutorials - Nov 24, 2009, 10:14 am
I previously created a 3D text effect tutorial in Photoshop. This time I will created another kind of 3D text effect which uses the wind filter to the 3D effect instead of duplicating the text... ...
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ilike2 i. posted an article on ilike2Flash - Adobe Flash tutorials - Nov 24, 2009, 7:42 am
If you want to remove or delete an event listener from an event in Actionscript 3, you need to use the removeEventListener() method. Removing an event is similar to adding an event as you need to... ...
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ilike2 i. posted an article on ilike2Flash - Adobe Flash tutorials - Nov 22, 2009, 10:22 am
In this tutorial you will learn how to use the Numericstepper component in Actionscript 3. The Numericstepper component displays a series of numbers which step up and down incrementally. This... ...
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ilike2 i. posted an article on ilike2Flash - Adobe Flash tutorials - Nov 20, 2009, 11:39 am
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a glow button menu effect in Actionscript 3. The menu buttons will show a glow effect when the mouse is over the menu items, and the glow effect will... ...
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ilike2 i. posted an article on ilike2Flash - Adobe Flash tutorials - Nov 17, 2009, 5:43 am
Everyone knows you can type horizontal text in Flash CS4, but did you know you can change the direction of the text to vertical. You can change the direction of the text without using the transform......
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ilike2 i. posted an article on ilike2Flash - Adobe Flash tutorials - Nov 15, 2009, 7:01 am
This freebies section contains a collection of free Flash related goodies. Everything available on this page can be downloaded for free. Remember to subscribe to keep updated with the latest... C...
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ilike2 i. posted an article on ilike2Flash - Adobe Flash tutorials - Nov 14, 2009, 6:33 pm
Flash websites are becoming more popular, so I have compiled a small list of websites which provides free Flash templates. If you have any suggestions for more websites, feel free to leave a comment.....
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ilike2 i. posted an article on ilike2Flash - Adobe Flash tutorials - Nov 13, 2009, 12:24 pm
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a stretch menu effect in Actionscript 3.0. The menu effect will stretch horizontally when the mouse is over the menu items, and will shrink when the... ...
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ilike2 i. posted an article on ilike2photoshop - Photoshop tutorials - Nov 12, 2009, 9:41 am
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a spiral text effect in Photoshop. You need to use the Custom shape tool for this tutorial which can be found on the tool box. This tutorial is similar......
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ilike2 i. posted an article on ilike2Flash - Adobe Flash tutorials - Nov 10, 2009, 4:58 pm
In this tutorial you will learn how create a magic 8 ball game in Actionscript 3.0. A magic 8 ball is a classic toy used for telling the future by answering your questions. You would normally ask a......
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ilike2 i. posted an article on ilike2photoshop - Photoshop tutorials - Nov 9, 2009, 10:55 am
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a coloured stencil effect in Photoshop. You will need to use the threshold adjustment tool for this effect. I have used a free stock image which is... ...
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ilike2 i. posted an article on ilike2Flash - Adobe Flash tutorials - Nov 8, 2009, 8:14 am
In this Flash tutorial you will learn how to load an external SWF file using Actionscript 3.0. In Actionscript 2.0 you could use the MovieClipLoader class or the loadMovie command to load an external....
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ilike2 i. posted an article on ilike2Flash - Adobe Flash tutorials - Nov 4, 2009, 6:56 am
I found a showcase of preloaders from past and present websites over at prettyloaded.com. This website contains an archive of preloaders which basically load preloader after preloader. If you are a......
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ilike2 i. posted an article on ilike2Flash - Adobe Flash tutorials - Nov 3, 2009, 9:27 am
Many of my tutorials use the tweenLite or tweenMax plug-ins for tweening effects. A common question I get asked all the time is, how to do you install tweenLite or tweenMax? Below is a quick tutorial....
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ilike2 i. posted an article on ilike2Flash - Adobe Flash tutorials - Nov 2, 2009, 12:23 pm
This is a small update from the black and white gallery tutorial. In the previous tutorial you had to use the timeline to add key frames to adjust the saturation property of the movie clip which... ...
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ilike2 i. posted an article on ilike2photoshop - Photoshop tutorials - Oct 28, 2009, 11:45 am
In this tutorial you will learn how to create an abstract line texture using the gradient tool. The results of this texture will give a random selection of lines. This effect is created in a similar.....
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ilike2 i. posted an article on ilike2Flash - Adobe Flash tutorials - Oct 27, 2009, 5:50 pm
I noticed an interesting button on a website form the other day which displayed a countdown time inside the button before actually turning into a clickable button. So, in this tutorial I will... ...
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ilike2 i. posted an article on ilike2Flash - Adobe Flash tutorials - Oct 25, 2009, 7:00 am
I previously created a Blur image effect tutorial that used the timeline to create the blurred effect. This time I will create the same effect using only Actionscript 3.0. You will need the tweenMax.....
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ilike2 i. posted an article on ilike2Flash - Adobe Flash tutorials - Oct 24, 2009, 8:56 am
... the filters panel in the interface, or using Actionscript code. I will be showing you both methods of adding blur filters to movie clips. Firstly,... Copyright © 2009 ilike2flash. This F...
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ilike2 i. posted an article on ilike2Flash - Adobe Flash tutorials - Oct 17, 2009, 12:23 pm
This is a continuation of the previous post on the button component in Actionscript 3.0. In this post I will go into more detail about the button component. For each of the parts below you will need.....
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ilike2 i. posted an article on ilike2Flash - Adobe Flash tutorials - Oct 11, 2009, 12:15 pm
In this tutorial you will learn how to limit the amount of colour swatches in a colour picker component. This means if you only want certain colour in your component, you can set these colours. To... ...
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ilike2 i. posted an article on ilike2Flash - Adobe Flash tutorials - Oct 11, 2009, 7:53 am
The colour picker component displays a list of colours squares called swatches which the user can select a colour from. Initially, this component only displays a single colour on a square button.... ...
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ilike2 i. posted an article on ilike2Flash - Adobe Flash tutorials - Oct 8, 2009, 6:59 am
This is an update from the previous clicking game in AS2. The steps in this tutorial are exactly the same as the previous one, only the code has been converted into Actionscript 3.0. So, be sure to.....
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ilike2 i. posted an article on ilike2Flash - Adobe Flash tutorials - Oct 4, 2009, 1:01 pm
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a simple zoom in and out effect using Actionscript 3.0. I have used an image of a fish to show the zoom in and out in this tutorial, but you can use... ...
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ilike2 i. posted an article on ilike2Flash - Adobe Flash tutorials - Oct 3, 2009, 9:38 am
Copyright © 2009 ilike2flash. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright... ...
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ilike2 i. posted an article on ilike2Flash - Adobe Flash tutorials - Oct 2, 2009, 6:21 pm
The code for the stage height and stage width in Actionscript 3.0 is slightly different from the Actionscript 2.0 version. Below is a comparison of the two versions. AS2 code stage.height AS3 ...
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ilike2 i. posted an article on ilike2Flash - Adobe Flash tutorials - Oct 1, 2009, 5:15 pm
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a fading navigation menu with Actionscript 3.0. This is an update from the previous AS2 navigation menu. Some knowledge of basic buttons and opening... ...
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ilike2 i. posted an article on ilike2Flash - Adobe Flash tutorials - Sep 29, 2009, 9:23 am
In this tutorial you will learn how to use the checkbox component in Actionscript 3.0. A checkbox is a small box which displays a check mark when it has been clicked. Below I will show a simple... ...
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ilike2 i. posted an article on ilike2photoshop - Photoshop tutorials - Sep 27, 2009, 9:53 am
In this tutorial you will learn how to change the colour of an object in Photoshop using the Adjustment layer. There are many different methods of changing the colour, but I will show you the... ...
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ilike2 i. posted an article on ilike2Flash - Adobe Flash tutorials - Sep 24, 2009, 10:23 am
In this tutorial you will learn how to use the button component in Actionscript 3.0. A button component is rectangular button which can be pushed with the mouse to perform actions. The button... ...
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ilike2 i. posted an article on ilike2Flash - Adobe Flash tutorials - Sep 22, 2009, 6:36 pm
Over at the Flash Developer Connection at adobe.com you can find a collection of five video demos explaining the Flash CS4 workspace. These video demos are aimed at helping people understand and... ...
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ilike2 i. posted an article on ilike2Flash - Adobe Flash tutorials - Sep 21, 2009, 4:32 am
Over flabell.com you can find a collection of Flash component freebies for both AS2 and AS3. There are currently 11 freebies which you can download. Of course, there are also Flash components you can....
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ilike2 i. posted an article on ilike2Flash - Adobe Flash tutorials - Sep 20, 2009, 11:11 am
In this tutorial I will teach you how to use the radio component in Actionscript 3.0. I have created a simple quiz which uses the radio components, but you could also create a form if you wish. Some.....
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ilike2 i. posted an article on ilike2photoshop - Photoshop tutorials - Sep 17, 2009, 3:20 pm
In this Photoshop tutorial you will learn how to make colours more vibrant in your image. This process uses the quick mask mode and the curves adjustment tool. The curve adjustments make the colours.....
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ilike2 i. posted an article on ilike2Flash - Adobe Flash tutorials - Sep 16, 2009, 9:33 am
In this tutorial you will learn how to use the Combo box component with Actionscript 3.0. I have created a simple example using the combo box which demonstrates how it works. In my example I have... ...
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ilike2 i. posted an article on ilike2Flash - Adobe Flash tutorials - Sep 14, 2009, 10:54 am
In this tutorial you will learn how to display the time in Actionscript 3.0. This is an update from the previous AS2 version. The code in this tutorial is very similar to the previous version, only......
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ilike2 i. posted an article on ilike2Flash - Adobe Flash tutorials - Sep 11, 2009, 7:47 am
In this Flash tutorial you will learn how to change the colour of a movie clip in Actionscript 3.0 using the ColorTransform class. A colour picker component will be used to change the colour of the......
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ilike2 i. posted an article on ilike2photoshop - Photoshop tutorials - Sep 10, 2009, 8:50 am
This article contains a list of places where you can get free brushes for Photoshop. There are many different kinds of brushes available to download which range from grunge brushes to garden plate... ...
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ilike2 i. posted an article on ilike2Flash - Adobe Flash tutorials - Sep 10, 2009, 6:45 am
Flash extensions are plug-ins that adds extra capabilities and features to Flash. To install the extensions you will need the Adobe Extension manager which usually comes installed with Flash. If you.....
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ilike2 i. posted an article on ilike2Flash - Adobe Flash tutorials - Sep 9, 2009, 5:51 pm
I have provided a list of books for learning Actionscript 3.0. These books are suitable for beginners and advanced users of Actionscript. If you are completely new to Actionscript 3.0 then I... C...
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ilike2 i. posted an article on ilike2Flash - Adobe Flash tutorials - Sep 8, 2009, 10:59 am
This is a quick tip for removing unused library items in Flash CS4. It is quite common for many library items to be used especially when you are developing large projects. If you have lots of unused.....
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ilike2 i. posted an article on ilike2Flash - Adobe Flash tutorials - Sep 5, 2009, 8:28 am
Over at pixelbreaker.com I found a useful piece of code which displays the memory used by the Flash Player. Only two lines of code are needed for displaying the memory. The System.totalMemory... ...
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ilike2 i. posted an article on ilike2Flash - Adobe Flash tutorials - Sep 4, 2009, 4:13 pm
I previously wrote a post on keyboard controls in AS3 which allowed you to move an object using the keyboard keys. In that tutorial the object could not be moved simultaneously to two directions. For....
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ilike2 i. posted an article on ilike2Flash - Adobe Flash tutorials - Sep 3, 2009, 6:30 am
In Actionscript 2 it wasn’t possible to change the frame rate directly at runtime, but now in Actionscript 3 you can change the frame rate of Flash files. The frame rate is the frames per second of....
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ilike2 i. posted an article on ilike2Flash - Adobe Flash tutorials - Sep 2, 2009, 7:29 am
This is a continuation from the previous Drawing lines in Actionscript 3 – part 2. This time you will be able to change the line thickness of the drawn lines using the slider component in Flash. So,...
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ilike2 i. posted an article on ilike2photoshop - Photoshop tutorials - Sep 1, 2009, 1:01 pm
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a wood text effect in Photoshop. The wood effect is created by adding a pattern overlay on top of the text. You will need a wood texture for this... ...
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ilike2 i. posted an article on ilike2Flash - Adobe Flash tutorials - Sep 1, 2009, 6:47 am
This is a continuation of the previous Drawing lines in AS3 tutorial. This time you will be able to change the colour of the lines using the colour picker component in Flash. Be sure you have... ...
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ilike2 i. posted an article on ilike2Flash - Adobe Flash tutorials - Aug 29, 2009, 9:37 am
In this tutorial you will learn how to generate random numbers in Actionscript 3. The random numbers are generated using the Math.random function. There are many ways of achieving the random number......
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