
New features in Flash make awesome real-time graphic effects a reality. Check out cool effects produced by top developers—and find out how they built them.
Ben Pritchard (July 23, 2007)
Apply reflections to movie clips in your Flash projects and modify them using a custom ActionScript 3.0 class.
Learn to use the new BitmapData class in Flash 8 to create and manipulate 32-bit images at runtime with ActionScript.
Discover how you can manipulate pixel colors in Flash programmatically by changing their color channels.
Guy Watson (Dec. 19, 2005)
Speed up graphic performance using the bitmap caching capabilities in Flash.
Phil Chung (Jan. 9, 2006)
Learn about the value of matrices and how to use them to control graphic effects at the pixel level.
Grant Skinner shows you how to use custom bitmap caching and other Flash 8 features to make complex graphics run beautifully.
Guy Watson taps into the new features of Flash Player 8 to build a motion detection webcam.
Breathe life into complex characters with these custom techniques and tips.
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