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Mac Style PhotoFlip Gallery
This Photoshop + Flash tutorial will show you how to design a cool photo gallery as seen on AppleTV website and in many Mac application (ie. iTune, iPhone). In fact, this tutorial is very easy to follow, all you need is some basic Photoshop and Flash skills. To complete this tutorial, you need Photoshop CS2+, Flash 8+, and a photoFlow component from Flashloaded.
1. Gradient background
In Photoshop, create a new document, 950 x 620px. Select black foreground color and dark grey (#384b55) background. Use Gradient tool and drag from lower-middle to the bottom of the document.
2. Thumbnail grid
Collect some sample photos and create a thumbnail grid as shown below:
Then duplicate the thumbnail grid and apply flip vertical transform (Edit > Transform > Flip Vertical). We will need this duplicated grid to create the reflection effect.
3. Warp transform
Select the top layer grid and go to Edit > Transform > Warp. Now you should see the Warp transform grid:
Drag the four corner anchor points and the two middle vertical lines slight upward to create the bent effect.
Repeat previous step for the reflected grid. While you are dragging the anchor points, try to keep the reflected grid align to the top layer.
Set the top layer opacity to 30% and bottom layer to 50%. Then apply a gradient layer mask to the bottom layer.
4. Glow
Make a oval selection and fill it with a sky blue color. Apply 50px Gaussian Blur (Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur). Condense it a little so it looks like a spot light.
5. Flash
In Flash, create a new document exact same size as the Photoshop image. Copy & paste entire image in the first layer.
6. Flash component
If you have the photoFlow component installed, simply drag the component onto the stage. If you don’t have the component, get one from Flashloaded or enter our Free photoFlow Component Giveaways contest.
Now open the Component Inspector palette and you will see all available parameters. Here you can customize the component setting such as: XML path, autoflip, image dimensions, reflection, zoom effects… For more information on how to use photoFlow, please read the user guide.
6. Updating the gallery
Since the gallery is loaded from an external XML file, you can simply update the XML file to add or remove photos.
PhotoFlow component used in this tutorial is provided by Flashloaded. To get a free copy for yourself, don’t forget to enter our Free photoFlow Component Giveaways contest.
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122 Marcia http://colorimagesolutions.com
April 19th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
I love to win PhotoFlow, I need very badly !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
121 Ekaterina http://blog.allavatars.ru
April 12th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Awesome ideas work!
120 Sahid Ahmed
March 30th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Hi Guys, I am very late to enter the contest of getting photoflow component but would any of you guys be soo kind to give me a copy of this component please?
I know its cheeky to as but by looking at the example, this looks soo professional and would like to do my own photo gallery websites. Any help appreciated, many thanks, Sahid.
119 iyanfabian http://-
March 28th, 2008 at 8:25 am
great !
thanks, that will help my job
118 Calliope Georgousi http://www.calliopemuse.net
March 22nd, 2008 at 5:41 pm
could you please define what is the size of the thumbnail grid photo and if possible how to quickly make one in Photoshop maybe?
117 Alex http://www.sanmejor.com
March 22nd, 2008 at 5:16 am
I want photoFlow
116 toplist http://www.hitcim.com
March 14th, 2008 at 7:36 am
thank you for wrap , i learn it
115 mehedi
March 13th, 2008 at 9:04 am
I want PhotoFlow
114 Rosa
March 11th, 2008 at 3:39 am
very nice!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks
113 NICOPAN http://www.tuxhack.org
March 1st, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Very nice, thanks!