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New Action Script 3 free sources

Rafiq R. Elmansy — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:10:18 +0000

New Action Script 3 free sources are available to download on the Free Stuff link along with the new look which allows you to easily find free sources. The new free sources include Action Script 3 preloader and Action Script 3 navigation menu. If you have any question or comment about the files please do not hesitate contacting me info (at) graphicmania (dot) net.

Graphic Mania Best Web Site Contest - Sparkling Creativity!!

Rafiq R. Elmansy — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:18:25 +0000

About the Contest:
Graphic Mania would like to introduce the first graphic design contest in the Sparkling Creativity contests series. The first contest is about the Best Web Site Design and it is open for every one to join and submit their creative work.

Guidelines:
1- Post your work in this forum here:
http://forums.graphicmania.net/viewforum.php?f=7
2- The contest is open for every one to join and participate
3- Make sure to submit your site URL to enable (more...)

THE CS4-DAY

Rafiq R. Elmansy — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:53:21 +0000

Today is the CS4-DAY. The new relase of Adobe CS4 annoucnemnt is out with the monster of creativity coming out of the box.

The announcment includes the release of the new Creative Suite 4 products. Below are the content of each suite:

* Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium
o InDesign CS4
o Photoshop CS4 Extended
o Illustrator CS4
o Flash CS4 Professional
o Dreamweaver CS4
o Fireworks (more...)

How they do Flash cartoons?

Rafiq R. Elmansy — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:39:06 +0000

Most of the todays cartoonists are using Flash as their main tool to output their creative fun cartoon animation. This because the magnificent advantages you can find in Flash. It is easy to learn, great in the output and you can output your animation for different media like desktop, web, video, TV and even mobile devices.

I have experienced 3 way to use Flash for creating cartoon. Here, I will briefly discuss the 3 methods and I will write a deeper article about it in the next few days.

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Adding 3D to Flash projects using After Effects

Rafiq R. Elmansy — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:32:59 +0000

When I started learning Adobe After Effects, I realized that it includes a number of features and effects that can not only give more capabilities to my Macromedia Flash projects but save me time because of how the two applications are integrated.

After Effects gives you a variety of ways to create video with alpha, animate your graphic in 2D or 3D space, and then export your animation with a transparent background, as well as apply a variety of effects and presets that differentiate (more...)

Contest: Announcing the Adobe AIR Cookbook Cook-off

Rafiq R. Elmansy — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:25:54 +0000

A new contest about Adobe AIR Cookbook and the prices are great Michael Koch wrote about the new contest on Adobe site here and below is the details:

Think you can solve common Adobe AIR related coding problems? Then you qualify for the Adobe AIR Cookbook Cook-off contest, sponsored by O’Reilly Media, to celebrate the upcoming publication of the Adobe AIR Cookbook. During this contest, we invite you to submit your best solutions to common AIR coding challenges for a chance to win some great prizes. Read on (more...)

Motion Tweening Workflow Improvement in Flash

Rafiq R. Elmansy — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:02:23 +0000

Motion Tweening is considered bless for animation and Flash designers, as it helps save time and effort when creating animation in Flash instead of building your animation frame-by-frame.

Furthermore, the new version of Flash provides more control to motion tweening either by using XML and the timeline context menu. These improvements make using motion tweening to become easier and fast than before.

Introduction

Motion Tweening is considered bless for animation and Flash (more...)

Creating GIF images without white borders problem in Photoshop

Rafiq R. Elmansy — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:25:04 +0000

GIF images are a good choice in low size and transparency support for most web designers. But the big problem that most designers face is the white border that shows up around your transparent GIF image while saving them from Photoshop or other software.

Actually, this white border happens when GIF images does not calculate the transparency very well as this format compress the colors to the limit or may be distorting the colors if you try to decrease the size a little bit more using the (more...)

Join Graphic Mania Forum

Rafiq R. Elmansy — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 10:39:43 +0000

Graphic Mania Forum is an online forum for graphic design, web design, Flash and animation discussions. You can share ideas and get support about these topics. Join it now!!

The Unveiling of new Adobe Creative Suite 4 on September 23

Rafiq R. Elmansy — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:18:52 +0000

This morning, we waked up with the news about unveiling the new version of Adobe Creative suite. The new CS4 will be introduced in a broadcast by next September 23 and you can register for the boadcast directly from Adobe site or follow the following link.

You can register and choose the time zone that suite you. So, let see what is coming in the new version of Adobe CS4

Is IE under risk after reveiling Google new browser?

Rafiq R. Elmansy — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:15:20 +0000

After the new reveal of the new Google Chrome browser, the question is will the IE be under risk after the new Open source browser and Mozilla Firefox?

At this point, the only reason that gives IE the strength is its being as part of the Microsoft windows. Otherwise, the new Google browser is expected to be more user friendly and support other google services. Read the full review here.

Its official, Google Chrome is launching tomorrow

Saeed Ashour — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:16:16 +0000

Google just officially confirmed that it will release a new open-source web browser, called Google Chrome (that link should go live sometime tomorrow).

Beta testing currently for Windows users only

Saeed Ashour

Introducing Graphic Mania forum

Rafiq R. Elmansy — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:14:24 +0000

We are happy to present to you Graphic Mania forum. The forum let you share knowledge and get support from the Adobe Community Expert about any problem you face as well as a job forum that allows you to free submit to your job post or your resume.

Visit the Graphic Mania forum here.

Adobe Flash Lite 3 Developer Edition

Rafiq R. Elmansy — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:02:13 +0000

The current version of Adobe Flash Lite 3 on Adobe labs site let you test your Flash content on mobile devices before shipping it. This version of Flash Lite is not locked to your mobile serial number nor requires you to provide the IMEI number of your mobile.

The is current version will be shipped on Nokia s60 mobiles by the first quarter of 2008. Till now, the developer edition (more...)

Creating GIF images without white borders problem in Photoshop

Rafiq R. Elmansy — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:48:25 +0000

Figure01, notice the edges in GIF format transparent images and PNG-24 format

Actually, this white border happens when GIF images does not calculate the transparency very well as this format compress the colors to the limit or may be distorting the (more...)

Creating GIF images without white borders problem in Photoshop

Rafiq R. Elmansy — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:47:47 +0000

Figure01, notice the edges in GIF format transparent images and PNG-24 format

Actually, this white border happens when GIF images does not calculate the transparency very well as this format compress the colors to the limit or may be distorting the (more...)

DO NOT MISS IT >> Subscribe to Graphic Mania by Email

Rafiq R. Elmansy — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:00:42 +0000

Now you can be updated by email with new tutorials, articles, reviews and resources about Adobe Flash and other products. Subscribe to Graphic Mania by Email .

DO NOT MISS IT >> Subscribe to Graphic Mania by Email

Rafiq R. Elmansy — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:00:00 +0000

Now you can be updated by email with new tutorials, articles, reviews and resources about Adobe Flash and other products. Subscribe to Graphic Mania by Email .

Introducing Flash Player 10 Beta

Rafiq R. Elmansy — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:34:36 +0000

Adobe� Flash� Player 10, code-named �Astro,� introduces new expressive features and visual performance improvements that allow interactive designers and developers to build the richest and most immersive Web experiences. These new capabilities also empower the community to extend Flash Player and to take creativity and interactivity to a new level.

This public prerelease is an opportunity for developers and consumers to test and provide early feedback to Adobe on new features, enhancements, (more...)

Solving the search engine problem with Flash SWF & RIA content

Rafiq R. Elmansy — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:27:07 +0000

With the Adobe immediate release in the 1st of this July, The nightmare that was facing the Flash developers and designers about indexing their content via search engines is over. YES!!

As mentioned in the press release below Adobe will provide Google and Yahoo a version of Flash Player that enables search engine to index SWF content and uncover its included information which was not reachable in the past. and here is the full press release, here