Pictures for the Web

There are many ways of getting pictures for your web page or Flash file, the most simple is to scan an image. You can also get images from the web as there are millions out there. This tutorials covers scanning and copying images from the web. These will be Bitmap images (pictures which are made of thousands of dots of colour), not Vector images, which are made up of mathematical co-ordinates.

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Pictures for the web
How to scan or find pictures to use in Flash or your web page. Including the different file formats and how to compress pictures.

Mathematically generated pictures
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Loading Pictures Dynamically
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Create a Drop Down Menu for showing pictures
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Use Array Batch to Load External Pictures
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Loading External Images using Flash MX 2004 Components
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Drawing Spider Web Using API
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Flash Sound on HTML Web Pages
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Open Web Sites
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super duper mask tutorial!!!!
create a great way to view pictures or anything!

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Morphing Text and Pictures
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Virtual Tours using Flash and panoramic pictures.
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GetUrl By Picture
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Web Safe Colours
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Flash viewer
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Variables - part 2 - text
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Detect Intruders Using the Camera Object
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Printing Movies Overview
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Flash Nature Effects
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Preloading movies and pictures with the MovieClipLoader class
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Communication between Flash Movies: Pop Ups
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Star Trek 3D Space
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Building Web Sites With Macromedia Studio MX - Book Excerpt
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Publishing a Flash Movie
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Introduction to Flash 8
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Explained simple: Loading external .swf's in the right position
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PT Product Drag and Zoom
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Importing Images and Movies into Flash
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Importing Images and Movies into Flash (Exclusive Tutorial)
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Flashing your Logo with a Beam of Light
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Color Distort
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Movies & Flash
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Pictures for the Web

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