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In this web roundup, we have handpicked some of the best free Flash photo galleries on the Internet. From web based scripts, to Flash components ready to be integrated on your website. And on top of that, we’ve also included some cool tutorials that will help you to learn how to create your own 2D and 3D Flash Galleries and how to turn it in a Flash Component.

FlashFlickr PhotoGallery

A gallery from Sephiroth.it, based on Flex and Actionscript 3.0 that uses the famous Flickr API.

Flashmo 3d Grid

Flashmo is a well known free flash templates site, where you can find several cool interfaces like this 3D Grid gallery.

PhotoDiary 1.0

PhotoDiary is a Flash based gallery, cool for people that don’t have flash skills or would like to have an application where easily could manage the photos on a normal php back end.

Tony Photo Album

FlashMo Stack Photo Gallery

Another cool gallery from FlashMo.

3D Album

This 3D album component is based on the bellow "Building a 3D album with FIVe3D and TweenLite" tutorial .

Slideroll Gallery AV

Another very easy to manage flash gallery, that allows you to insert caption on each image.

WS-Slideshow

Imagin Flash Photo Gallery

FlashMo Circle Gallery

Art Flash Gallery

Zen Flash Gallery

Flash Mo Grid Gallery

AutoViewer

Cool gallery, with a very easy navigation and clean layout.

Flash Gallery

PostcardViewer

This gallery it causes a somewhat interactivity wit a cool zoom effect.

FlashMo Photo Gallery

InventMedia FlashGallery

dfGallery 2.0

A Dezinerfolio application, with lots of features ready to use. They have even included a cool video explaining how to install and customize this cool gallery.

Polaroid Gallery

This is an impressive image gallery that can load data either from a xml file or flickr rss. You can use it on a portfolio or something like that. This is an open-source application, so if you have some actionscript skills, you can add additional features to it.

Flash Image Gallery

Free Flash Gallery

Andrew Bergs Flash Photo Browser

A very cool interactive stack gallery.

flShow Carousel

A nice caroussel kind gallery.

Simple Viewer

Another cool gallery, ready to use.

Veppa Photo Album

XML Photo Album

Tutorials

Building a 3D album with FIVe3D and TweenLite

This tutorial explain how to create an awesome Flash 3D Album using the FIVe3D framework and TweenLite.

Build a Dynamic Flash Gallery with Slider Control

Another cool tutorial showing how to create a flash gallery controlled by a slider and using xml data.

Simulating PicLens with Flex and Away3D

A 3 part tutorial, creating from scratch a 3D application similar to the famous PicLens.

Flash Slideshow Image Gallery

Learn How-to Create Flash Components using Actionscript 3.0, XML and Flickr API

If you want to create your own gallery, or if you want to add some features to some of the above mentioned examples, why don’t you compile it as a flash component, ready to deploy in your following projects? And better than that, you can sale it in several sites such as the Adobe Exchange.

Hope you enjoyed all the Galleries.

Don’t forget to share this with others.

Flash websites more and more get popular among Internet users. And though many of them still complain that Flash web pages are slow as a snail, it doesn’t prevent them from enjoying the beauty and creativity of Flash sites. These websites continue to impress us with dynamism, interactivity, fresh unique ideas and spontaneity but still require lots of patience. And when we enter such a website it often takes some time to load. But Flash developers and designers tried to brighten up this waiting time and created the attractive preloaders – custom-built flash components that inform the viewer that content is being loaded into the Flash player.

Flash preloaders can range from a simple, static waiting message to a dynamically updated animation that reflects the status of the content loaded. And this blogpost presents the most creative and stunning Flash preloaders of all times. And I admit, we should give credit to Flash designers for their vivid imagination. Enjoy the collection!

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Sergey Tyukanov Artworks

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ProblemPlayground

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Oddodesign.com

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Kaiserinteractive.com

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Scruffs-game.com

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Ishothim.com

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Dead-line.com

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Communicatorworld.com

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Arihirvonen.com

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Ladio.ru

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Okaydave.com

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Elipseagency.com

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Conceptm.nl

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Escriba.es

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Farmrio.com

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Instinct.ru

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Yosry.com

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Prismgirl.org

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Limbus.fr

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Marilynmanson.com

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Bio-bak.nl

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Laplanete.sldimension.com

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Mon-monde.com

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Sir-patroclo.com

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So don’t waste your time and let’s start some creative thoughts.

If you know any creative Flash preloaders, let’s share with me..

Papervision3D (PV3D) is a popular open source 3D engine for Flash. It enables to create advanced three-dimensional objects displayed real time right in the web browser. With Papervision3D designers bring an impressive visual experience and user interaction to the web visitors. Interactive environment captivates and gives an opportunity to enjoy navigation and content exploring process. PV3D provides great solutions for product showcasing websites, advertising campaigns and portfolio designs.

Below you can find a collection of impressive Papervision3D websites and tutorials that hopefully will inspire you and give you an idea about how this technique can be used in your projects. It is important to remember that being based on Flash, Papervision3D often has similar issues in usability and is not recommended to be used in developing websites where simplicity and accessibility are essential.

Creative Papervision3D Websites

Portfolios

X-PRIME

A stylish and unobtrusive portfolio design featured with a nifty Papervision3D image gallery which can be displayed in a few ways.

Hatica 2009

This website reminds of a little fairy-tale world floating in shining light space. Navigation is quite easy and enjoyable.

HOOK

Hook’s portfolio is a picture of a truly creative and beautiful design. Everything here is about brilliant individuality and attention to details.

Lab9

It’s a great example of clean and neat Papervision3D interface.

SapientNitro

This digital styled website performs awesome transitions, typography visualization and sound effects.

Zara Media Design Group

Nice and minimalist PV3D-powered website. Open a three-dimensional book to meet Zara Media Design Group.

Oval Design

Portfolio of Oval Design Studio provides an amazing interaction experience. Website represents the whole universe you can explore on a controllable spacecraft.

13flo

Florian Bernard’s portfolio is done in a sleek cyber-punk style and offers a wonderful 3D performance. The thumbnail displaying mechanism implies the 360-degree rotation and can be transformed in several ways.

Dasai

Nice and amusing website with a good use of space and easy navigation. You can find the information about Spanish web agency Dasai exploring a small green planet of the same name.

TBC

Portfolio of Baltimore-based advertising and public relations company TBC features original and usable content presentation. All the information can be browsed without leaving the home page.

Scalena Agency

Chic website. Both in style and technical execution.

Barcinski&Jeanjean

Barcinski&Jeanjean studio offers so much interaction in their portfolio. Website has a special option – wear 3D-glasses and enjoy all the fascination of three-dimensional environment. You can also play ping-pong while the site is loading. Excellent work!

Freedom+Partners

Totally original website with a top-class PV3D realization and innovative navigation. It keeps up with usability as well – turn off 3D mode for quicker access to content.

WHITEvoid

Elegant minimalist design and handy navigation structure provide a remarkable visual experience. It proves that usable Flash websites do exist.

Advertising & Social Campaigns

Air Jordan 2009

Clean and fresh design of this site is not less inspiring than personal stories of famous sportsmen collected in a 3D video gallery.

Coors Light Project Cold

3D beer can model creates a cool tactile effect. Cans seem to be good containers not only for beer but for content as well.

Bankers’ stories

This promo website of the French bank Societe Generale shows how PV3D may come in handy to create social, communication-oriented mediums.

Panasonic: Everything matters

The statement “Everything matters” reflects the design guideline of this website ideally. Flash version of the site provides a creative and dynamic product presentation with cool transition effects and colorful animations. HTML version is also available for viewing.

Pepsi Music Challenge

Fantastic Papervision3D website. Pepsi Music Challenge project delivers an exciting interaction experience by allowing visitors to play a funny music related game. GuitarHero fans will love it!

The Baileys Lounge

Another creative idea realized by means of Papervision3D – dive into the Baileys Lounge while turning over the pages of virtual folding book.

The Economist: Thinking Space

The main purpose of The Economist’s research project “Thinking Space” is to learn where people get their ideas and inspiration. You can submit your own thinking space and get a section in the massive 3D construction on the main page.

SpringHill Suits

It is a nice and clean website providing interesting visual effects and interaction. A good idea for an online hotel tour.

The Cigarette Is Dead

Now comes a dark-styled website using PV3D for displaying timeline. The overall horror-movie style can probably leave a bad aftertaste, it is a powerful solution for anti-smoking campaign though.

The Wrong Door

Official website of BBC comedy sketch show is a successful mix of beautiful graphics, funny animations (sometimes containing adult and toilet humor) and lively 3D surroundings.

UFC 100

This is the second PV3D-based website for Ultimate Fighting Championship official web presentations. (UFC84 was the first one) Excellent usage of this technique can be observed in both cases.

Summerfestival 2009

Burst of colors, psychedelic balloons and original navigation form a quite imaginative website.

FOXTEL: I’m Unique

IamuniQue project lets you build an interactive 3D portrait of yourself and share it with other users. New fun for social networking enthusiasts.

Watchmen Motion Comic

Wonderful presentation of Watchmen Motion Comic features superb interactivity, great dynamics and transparent navigation.

Foot Locker

Another example of fabulous PV3D effects and unique creativity in product presentation.

Absolut

“Doing things differently leads to something exceptional”. The following website contains exceptional videos and beautiful minimalist 3D gallery.

Concave Scream: Soundtrack For A Book

Dancing particles and dreamy music will take you far away from your desktop. It is probably the most unusual website from our collection.

Papervision3D.org

Official site

The home page of Papervision3D official site is nothing but a three-dimensional underwater world visualization. The work shines for itself.

carlosulloa.com

Website of Papervision3D founder Carlos Ulloa is done in minimalist style. Controllable 3D car model and good use of thumbnail lighting give it a subtle flavor.

HelloEnjoy

This is a new home of carlosulloa.com. It features PV3D engine powerful capabilities enabling to play around with 3-dimensional text.

Tutorials

Papervision3D Flash Gallery

Three-dimensional image gallery is a good way to enrich your website with interactivity and visual attractiveness. This is a very detailed and informative tutorial on how to create a Papervision3D Flash gallery.

Introduction to Augmented Reality

Augmented reality is an ActionScript library used in combination with Papervision3D. With Lee Brimelow’s video tutorial you will learn the basics of how to get stated with this new trendy effect.

Papervision3D For Beginners

This is a collection of video tutorials covering some basics of Papervision3D. A good introductory set for beginner users.

Papervision3D Collada Basics

This video guide describes how to create and import 3D textured models for use in PV3D.

Build A Wiimote Controlled Lightsaber Using WiiFlash and Papervision3D

Learn how to use a Wiimote within Flash and how to blend it with Papervision3D to get an interactive lightsaber.

Interactive 3D Cube

Another great tutorial from Lee Brimelow shows you how to use Papervision3D 2.0 to create an interactive cube navigator.

Geocoding in Papervision3D with Yahoo Maps

This article shows how to use PV3D and Yahoo mapping API to display any location you enter on a 3D globe of the world. You can also watch a video presentation of the PV3D Geocoding application

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So, let’s have a look at the a great product history and information.

Adobe Flash (previously called Macromedia Flash) is a multimedia platform originally acquired by Macromedia and currently developed and distributed by Adobe Systems. Since its introduction in 1996, Flash has become a popular method for adding animation and interactivity to web pages. Flash is commonly used to create animation, advertisements, and various web page components, to integrate video into web pages, and more recently, to develop rich Internet applications.

Flash can manipulate vector and raster graphics, and supports bidirectional streaming of audio and video. It contains a scripting language called ActionScript. Several software products, systems, and devices are able to create or display Flash content, including Adobe Flash Player, which is available free for most commonweb browsers, some mobile phones and for other electronic devices (using Flash Lite). The Adobe Flash Professional multimedia authoring program is used to create content for the Adobe Engagement Platform, such as web applications, games and movies, and content for mobile phones and other embedded devices.

History

The Flash application was the brainchild of Jonathan Gay, who developed the idea while in college and extended it while working for Silicon Beach Software and its successors.[1][2]

In January 1993, Jonathan Gay, Charlie Jackson, and Michelle Welsh started a small software company called FutureWave Software and created their first product, SmartSketch. A drawing application for pen computers running the PenPoint OS, SmartSketch was designed to make creating computer graphics as simple as drawing on paper. When PenPoint failed in the marketplace, SmartSketch was ported to Microsoft Windows and Mac OS. As the Internet began to thrive, FutureWave began to realize the potential for a vector-based web animation tool that might easily challenge Macromedia’s Shockwave technology. In 1995, FutureWave modified SmartSketch by adding frame-by-frame animation features and re-released it as FutureSplash Animator on Macintosh and PC. By that time, the company had added programmer Robert Tatsumi, artist Adam Grofcsik, and PR specialist Ralph Mittman. Tatsumi focused on writing the authoring tool’s user interface, while Gay wrote the graphics renderer, curve and shape math code, and the browser plug-in.[3]The product was offered to Adobe and used by Microsoft in its early work with the Internet (MSN). In December 1996, Macromedia acquired the vector-based animation software and later released it as Flash,contracting “Future” and “Splash” of the FutureWave name.

FutureSplash Animator (April 10, 1996): initial version of Flash with basic editing tools and a timeline

Macromedia Flash 1 (November 1996): a Macromedia re-branded version of the FutureSplash Animator

Macromedia Flash 2 (June 1997): Released with Flash Player 2, new features included: the object library

Macromedia Flash 3 (May 31, 1998): Released with Flash Player 3, new features included: the movieclip element, JavaScript plug-in integration, transparency and an external stand alone player

Macromedia Flash 4 (June 15, 1999): Released with Flash Player 4, new features included: internal variables, an input field, advanced ActionScript, and streaming MP3

Macromedia Flash 5 (August 24, 2000): Released with Flash Player 5, new features included: ActionScript 1.0 (based on ECMAScript, making it very similar to JavaScript in syntax), XML support, Smartclips (the precursor to components in Flash), HTML text formatting added for dynamic text

Macromedia Flash MX (as version 6, released on March 15, 2002): Released with Flash Player 6, new features included: a video codec (Sorenson Spark), Unicode, v1 UI Components, compression, ActionScript vector drawing API

Macromedia Flash MX 2004 (as version 7, released September 9, 2003): Released with Flash Player 7, new features included: Actionscript 2.0 (which enabled an object-oriented programming model for Flash)(although it lacked the Script assist function of other versions, meaning Actionscript could only be typed out manually), behaviors, extensibility layer (JSAPI), alias text support, timeline effects. Macromedia Flash MX Professional 2004 included all Flash MX 2004 features, plus: Screens (forms for non-linear state-based development and slides for organizing content in a linear slide format like PowerPoint), web services integration, video import wizard, Media Playback components (which encapsulate a complete MP3 and/or FLV player in a component that may be placed in an SWF), Data components (DataSet, XMLConnector, WebServicesConnector, XUpdateResolver, etc) and data binding APIs, the Project Panel, v2 UI components, and Transition class libraries.

Macromedia Flash 8 (released on September 13, 2005): Macromedia Flash Basic 8, a less feature-rich version of the Flash authoring tool targeted at new users who only want to do basic drawing, animation and interactivity. Released with Flash Player 8, this version of the product has limited support for video and advanced graphical and animation effects. Macromedia Flash Professional 8 added features focused on expressiveness, quality, video, and mobile authoring. New features included Filters and blend modes, easing control for animation, enhanced stroke properties (caps and joins), object-based drawing mode, run-time bitmap caching, FlashType advanced anti-aliasing for text, On2 VP6 advanced video codec, support for alpha transparency in video, a stand-alone encoder and advanced video importer, cue point support in FLV files, an advanced video playback component, and an interactive mobile device emulator.

Adobe Flash CS3 Professional (as version 9, released on April 16, 2007): Flash CS3 is the first version of Flash released under the Adobe name. CS3 features full support for ActionScript 3.0, allows entire applications to be converted into ActionScript, adds better integration with other Adobe products such as Adobe Photoshop, and also provides better Vector drawing behavior, becoming more like Adobe Illustratorand Adobe Fireworks.

Adobe Flash CS4 Professional (as version 10, released on October 15, 2008): Contains inverse kinematics (bones), basic 3D object manipulation, object-based animation, an enhanced text engine, and further expansions to ActionScript 3.0. CS4 allows the developer to more efficiently and quickly create animations with many improved features that were not included in previous versions.

I’m one of the fan of Adobe. I love there products pretty much !!

Everybody please use Adobe Flash once, I’m sure you will feel very happy once you use it.
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