Adobe Photoshop Express now supports flickr, which allows PX’s users now to be able to pull their pictures off their Flickr accounts, crop or modify them and finally put them back up there on flickr in a very convenient way. Photoshop Express also introduced the Save As feature in its long list of breaking features, as well as the Embed button which always you to create slideshows with your pictures to show them off on facebook and myspace. You can give Photoshop Express a try from over here.

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Our latest Flash gallery tutorial will teach you how to create an awesome scrolling gallery that can be controlled using a custom scrollbar. All elements in the gallery can be updated using an XML File. Click here to read the tutorial.

This video tutorial will technique for sizing your photos up dramatically with almost no visible loss of quality. We will also learn how to use our Actions pallet to automate and speed up our workflow.

Painting with layer masks allows us virtually unlimited control within our digital photographs because it is non destructive editing. We can easily fix mistakes and or come back at any time to make further edits. This video tutorial will demonstrate just one of the many techniques for creative editing to your photos.

Some dude with loads of free time on his hands has decided to create a mobile application for modeling 3D objects by plotting NURBS curves on tiny mobile screens. Objects modeled using the Maya On-The-Go Java application can then be saved and imported onto Maya and Softimage | XSI to be used in *bigger* projects. I cannot think of a reason why anybody would want to spend time away from a computer modeling little 3D boxes, but you can try it out if you have the time just for the novelty of this free mobile application. Check out Maya On-The-Go to learn more about it and download the mobile application for free (Compatible only with Nokia phones).

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These are the Artwork Highlights for April, 2008.

Blue Chi’s Chemical Orange Flash Site

Laila’s Black & White
 

Aziz’s Spit Fire Plane

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Tutorials:

• Introduction to the ActionScript Drawing API
• Creating an XML Slideshow in Flash

Video Tutorials:

• Working with Levels in Photoshop
• Special Effects Using the Marquee Tool

Website of the Month:

• Samuel Eschiavo

Misc

• Chemical Orange - Free Flash Lite Games
• eGames 2008
• Origin Oman Student Logo Competition

This tutorial will teach you how to create an animation of a missile that flies targeting an object and then explodes when hitting that target. Our animation will be created using the Particle Flow Source (PF Source).

Adobe announced today a new project called “Open Screen Project” that aims to make Flash an ubiquitous platform for creating and running the content across a variety mediums, namely: TVs, computers, and mobile devices. The Open Screen Project is supported at launch by ARM, Cisco, Intel, Marvell, Motorola, MTV, NBC, Nokia, NTT Do Co Mo, Qualcomm, Sony Ericsson, and others. In order to accomplish this project, Adobe is removing all licensing fees that manufacturers had to pay to install the Flash Lite Player on their mobile handsets, opening the Flash Player API to let anyone to port the Flash Player onto any device, removing restrictions on the use of SWF and FLV formats so that any one can create custom players to run the format. Adobe is also publishing its Flash Cast protocol and the AMF protocol to allow new usages of data transfer services.

The Flash platform has been ever expanding the past two years as Flash developers can already now make desktop applications using AIR, web based applications using Flex, and mobile applications using Flash Lite. The expansion of these platforms onto new devices and set up boxes will make it easier for developers to create an application once only and then deploy it across a variety of mediums easily. Learn more about the Open Screen Project from Adobe website.

Oman3D’s Website of the Month Award for May 2008 goes to the portfolio of the Italian web designer Samuel Eschiavo. SamDesign is a beautiful flash website with a very creative concept. View the website via this link.

(You can submit your website to win the Oman3D Website of the Month Award via this link.)