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Cover Flow in Flash
I always liked the Cover Flow feature in itunes, you can flip through your music and video collections as if you are flipping through your cds. Then some weeks ago I read this amazing tutorial about how to create a mac style photo flip gallery. They used a flash component called photoFlow and you can find it at Flashloaded.com.
Cover Flow is a three-dimensional graphical user interface for visually rummaging through one's digital music libraries via cover artwork. It was created by an independent Macintosh developer, Jonathan del Strother. Some had viewed CoverFlow as a must-have Mac OS X app throughout 2005 and 2006 for its ability to give its user an intuitive, emotional, and efficient way to flip through one's record collections visually.
I couldn’t resist and had to try it. The price almost changed my mind, however I was working on a project which needed a photo gallery and this Cover Flow feature would fit like a glove. So I spent the 60 dollars and bought it at http://www.flashloaded.com/flashcomponents/photoflow/
I have to say, it’s an excellent component. Very easy to use, it allows you to customize pretty much everything like transparencies, spacings, sizes and etc... Besides, it gives a very beautiful impression.
Below I show an example using it.
You can find more gallery scripts and components for a much more affordable price at http://www.flashden.net/
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My name is Fabio Sasso, I'm a graphic/web designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil and I'm the founder of Abduzeedo. I hope we can share lots of information, tips, and ideas through Abduzeedo. Also you can follow me on Twitter or my personal site at http://fabiosasso.com.
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this cover flow is cool... but it only loads jpegs into the flash file... can it load animated of SWF files as well??? i tried but its not animating for the individual panel.. can anyone guide me in this??? thanks
Hello!!
I'm using the Cover Flow for a project I'm doing.
You can see what I have done so far at:
http://www.busybrain.net/proofing/bb-2008/index2.htm
What I want to do now, and I can't find any tutorials on how to do it, is that I want to make the thumbnails move automatically. Is it possible to have that keep happening without having to click on the ones behind it? Can it be looped?
Can you please help on this...
Thanks,
Vanessa M.
Hi there,
I'm a French developer and I spread a little bit more smooth and free Flash Coverflow here
It is linked with Shadowbox to display multimedia content and many options to adapt it for your web...
I know that a component is much easier to use but check this out.
http://www.weberdesignlabs.com/blog/?p=11
and the best of all IT'S FREE!!!
Photoshop+Flash=Love
Thanks all for the comments I really appreciated them...
hola mi nombre es Cuitlahuac Alcaraz Sanchez, he vistado tu sitio ya muchas veces esto es por que realmente me gusta tu estilo y tu forma de abordar temas de mucho interes, quisiera agradecerte por compartir tus conocimientos con las demas personas. XD sigue asi.gracias
gotta luv craigslist + cover flow
http://www.mycraigslist.org
Awesome. Thanks a ton dude!
Sensacional.
To procurando pra baixar, mas $60 não rola.
Queria colocar essa galeria no site novo pra minha banda.
Se tiver alguma dica me avisa por email?
Valeu!!
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