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Category: Art

  • Free PDF Download: Adobe Flash ActionScript 3.0 Programming

    This manual provides a foundation for developing applications in Adobe® ActionScript® 3.0. To best understand the ideas and techniques described, you should already be familiar with general programming concepts such as data types, variables, loops, and functions. You should also understand basic object-oriented programming concepts such as classes and inheritance. Prior knowledge of ActionScript 1.0 or ActionScript 2.0 is helpful but not necessary.

    -chapter 1

    Here is a free download of a programming manual for Flash AS3 from Adobe.

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  • PDF Download: ActionScript 3.0 Game Programming University by Gary Rosenzweig

    ActionScript 3.0 Game Programming University E-Book
    ActionScript 3.0 Game Programming University E-Book

    Trying to learn game programming in Adobe Flash? Want to learn game programming using AS3? Try this e-book that I’m going to share with you. It covers Adobe Flash CS3 Professional, so it’s perfect if you use Flash CS3.

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  • Catzie in the office

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    Catzie drawing at the office, ready to eat watermelon

    I made this drawing two days ago. I didn’t have the chance to make a blog entry for it immediately. What you see in the drawing is a cute version (lol) of me in the office: using the graphic tablet, drawing THIS on Adobe Photoshop, and feeling happy because I was about to eat watermelon. xD I skipped drawing the background because it would take longer for me to finish. The drawing looks as if drawn with a pencil and I like it. 🙂 It’s not a perfect drawing. It has flaws. But I just enjoyed making it.
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  • Adobe Illustrator: Get a smooth blur effect

    I remember how the pixelated blur effects in Adobe Illustrator made me feel so frustrated back in my IT Elective 4 class. It’s only now that I found out the solution for that problem, after doing a Google search. Here is how we can avoid pixelated blur effects in Adobe Illustrator. Please note that I am using Adobe Illustrator CS4.

    1. Click on Effect.
    2. Choose Document Raster Effects Settings.
    3. Choose High (300 ppi) as your Resolution.

    Doing the three steps above enhanced the blur effect on the graphic I am working on. I hope it helps you too.

  • Fix PNG images with transparency in older Windows Internet Explorer versions

    I wonder if this post would still get hits from search engine result pages. So many other web pages feature this fix for IE 5.5 and IE 6 web browser, that the Catzie.net Blog’s entry might just show up on the… 10th page or so. lol.

    Anyways, I’m still posting this, in case there are some visitors browsing around who need help with properly displaying the transparency of .PNG images in IE5.5 and IE6. This also helps me easily find the needed code to fix the display. I need it from time to time when I design website layouts. 🙂

    Tip: Most of us are probably using the newer versions of Internet Explorer. I suggest that you download and use the IE Tester. It’s a web browser that lets you see how web pages render in different versions of IE – 5.5, 6, 7, and 8.

    I assume that as you read this, you are using Internet Explorer version 5.5, or the version 5.5 tab on the IE Tester.
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