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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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224 Nikky
August 30th, 2010 at 12:28 am
I learnt my picture editing using fireworks 8 but i can navigate my way decently around photoshop. however, i dunno how to create the thumbnail grid in photoshop. could you please include a tutorial for that as well? thank you
223 Me
August 21st, 2010 at 2:32 pm
STUPID
222 eka http://ekas0615.student.ipb.ac.id
July 16th, 2010 at 1:46 pm
thank you so much for sharing :p
221 kenan
June 11th, 2010 at 12:37 am
hahaha
220 Devid Haryalesmana http://mas-devid.blogspot.com
May 26th, 2010 at 8:54 pm
Thank you so muchhh… Love this and it’s very helpfull. Awwwwww
219 Rene http://www.renelm.de
May 10th, 2010 at 7:57 am
Hi.
Das Teil ist ja absolut genial.
Kann ich die FLA dazu bekommen?
Liebe Grüße
RM
218 Sharon
May 9th, 2010 at 9:24 am
Hii , thanks for this great gallery
Is there a way to change the background image in the free demo you gave here for download?
Thanks
217 Web Design http://exmmedia.com
April 28th, 2010 at 8:24 pm
very cool…thanks for sharing!!!!!!!
216 jamie
March 26th, 2010 at 7:06 pm
Yeah nice, but a real let down. The reason I’m looking for tutorials is because I can’t afford to buy something!!
215 mangesh jaunjal http://no
March 23rd, 2010 at 2:17 am
this is the best flash images gallery
thanx to free download