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Just want to let everyone know that the Compare and Contrast gallery is now online as a Flash file on FlashDen here.
Also, I combined the two experiments posted here (mouse proximity blur and auto drag & snap) to create a Creative Iconic Menu with mouse proximity effects Flash file now on FlashDen here.
To keep up with my new FlashDen files and new work on my portfolio, you can follow me on Twitter here.
Thanks! 
How to make a menu or icons with a proximity blur effect
A mouse proximity blur is an effect which means the amount of blur on the movie clip is dependent on the distance between the movie clip and the mouse cursor.
In this tutorial, I will take you through a very basic and easy tutorial on how to set up a simple iconic menu and walk you through the ActionScript (AS3) to add this effect on the menu. I first created the mouse proximity blur menu as an experiment in my last post here. This is what the finished product will look like:
I created another little experiment with the same setup. This time a mouse proximity detection which blurs the button. The farther away from a button the mouse cursor is, the more blurred it will be. Bring the mouse to the center of the button and it will become clear without any blur. Also think this will work nicely into a creative menu. I may combine this one with the Auto Drag and Snap one to make one cool menu for FlashDen. These cynical, but beautiful Valentine’s Day icons were made by Eugen Buzuk at IconDrawer.com.
I made a little experiment, which would be well used in a menu. It could be a cool effect for a icon-like menu. For each button, on mouse over, the buttons snap to your mouse position - or close to it - and then follow your mouse, but the further your mouse differs from the original position, the more the button lags behind. On mouse out of the button, the button snaps back to the original position in a elastic transition.
I thought of this idea with a 3D kind of layout for picking images or even have site sections in each of these slides. It’s not enabled to shift slides, but you could do this with shifting the depths and so forth. You could probably also achieve this if not better with new CS4’s 3D capabilities. Maybe I will do an extended version of this in the future.
OOP: Object Oriented Programming
Object Oriented Programming is a concept rather than a technique or method of coding. However, within the concept of OOP, there are certain techniques and methods. Object Oriented Programming (OOP) is an object-based style of programming that uses objects to store and work with data. Templates known as classes are used to define the properties and methods that make up objects in code. So the point of it is to easily re-use robust code, making developing applications much easier, stronger, and allows more possibilities.
In this tutorial, I will take you through a very basic and easy, but very powerful method and aspect of OOP in Flash. We will create a loading circle that spins around by attaching external code to the movie clip. This will hopefully demonstrate to you the power of OOP.
Today someone showed me a very cool site, ThisIsSand.com - once I saw this, it reminded me of an old particle experiment I did with AS2. I converted into AS3 and played around a bit more. Click and hold to spray; use the arrow keys to adjust the pressure and spread of the particle spray. I’m still trying to figure out how to make the sand pile up on top of each other..
I recently asked someone close to me if they had a gallery for their work, what kind of website they would want. She said she would want a gallery where the user could compare two images at once; look at them both at the same time to compare them. I was interested and wondered how a website or application like this should be made. So I ended up creating a duo-image gallery with a drag and drop feature to view the images. Please click the preview image below to see it. My own photographs were used in this experiment.
As promised, a new update of the pixel art drawing application is posted up here. It now has a color picker, a grid to toggle on and off, a scalable drawing area, and a clear all button. You can create some pretty nice pixel art and pixel fonts. I still plan to develop this a lot further. Please comment on any suggestions you might have and I would love to see anything you create using this. Please feel free to mess around with it below, take a screenshot of what you made, and send it to my email (please email me first through my website).
Another experiment; pretty simple and basic at this stage, but I plan to implement many more features to create a kind of pixel art drawing application. I think it could be really fun, so come back some time to see more versions/updates on this!
Hi. My name is Christian Kragh and I'm a freelance Flash designer / developer. Welcome to my blog where I write and hopefully discuss any topics related to freelancing or Flash. I'm currently located in Rochester, NY, USA.
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