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  • Create Animal Textured Typography

    In this tutorial we are going to create fun, realistic, animal textured, 3D typography in Photoshop using CS5′s Repousse tool. Let’s get started! View Tutorial

  • How to Turn Humdrum Photos Into Cinematic Portraits

    There are a plethora of ways to treat a portrait, for a myriad of uses, but that is for another feature. Let’s tackle adding drama or a cinematic quality to a regular, humdrum portrait. Let’s even throw in a little bit of faking HDR. That way if you work on a project that requires a…

  • Create a Stormy, Electric Type Reveal

    This tutorial gives a different twist on how to use the powerful form plugin. Learn how to use it to create a mysterious and electric type reveal. View tutorial

  • Create a Breakup into Particles Logo Transition

    A very popular request is how to make a logo breakup into particles and reform into another logo. There’s many ways to achieve this and most of them require a full 3D application, but in this tutorial we learn how to achieve it all in After Effects using a 3D particle systems and a few…

  • 24 JavaScript Best Practices for Beginners

    As a follow-up to “30 HTML and CSS Best Practices”, this week, we’ll review JavaScript! Once you’ve reviewed the list, be sure to let us know what little tips you’ve come across! View Tutorial

  • Quick Tip: How to Communicate Between Flash and JavaScript

    In this Quick Tip, we’ll look at how to use the ExternalInterface class. This allows us to write AS3 which can run JavaScript code, and vice-versa. That means you can use Flash to alter parts of the webpage in which it’s running! View Tutorial

  • Quick Tip: Resizing SWFs using BrowserCanvas

    Have you ever needed to resize your embedded SWF based on the user interaction/input, like how Newgrounds allows you to resize certain Flash games to fit the screen? This can be done using JavaScript and the ExternalInterface class in ActionScript. But what if you don’t know JavaScript at all? Well, lucky for you there’s this…

  • Learn HTML5 With This Simple Avoider Game Tutorial

    In this tutorial (the first of a series), you’ll learn the basics of HTML5 game development with JavaScript and the element. You don’t need to have any programming experience, or even any HTML experience (apart from this one article). Let’s get started! View Tutorial

  • Tip: Close Your Android AIR App on Back Button

    While developing AIR for Android apps, you should consider whether you need your apps to run in the background, especially if they are highly intensive graphic games. View Tutorial

  • Understanding Date(): Making a Calendar in AS3

    Today we’ll build a fully functional calendar widget using AS3. It’s not rocket science, just an excellent example of using the Date class, which can handle all the complexity of extracting times, dates, months and years. We are also going to use some Flash components, and make sure that this calendar is portable to Flash…