Today we decided to feature the work of Patrick Hubner of madPotato. He is a great designer with an incredible portfolio who writes great tutorials on Photoshop, which we have already featured once per month. This time we will take a look for his awesome wallpaper collection free to all. Be sure to keep an eye on his blog cause he surprise us every time with new things.

Sorry for not posting yesterday, and for the delay today. But got plenty work to do, and last tutorials released at The Tech Labs took me more time than expected. The ggod thing is that i’m back, and again with cool, colored, inspirational tutorials for you. This time is a roundup on Photoshop tutorials. No more words, let’s take a look to them:

Mysterious Lightning

Create a mobile phone styled like the htc touch diamond

Knight Rider Wallpaper Tutorial

Smoke Effect

Explosion

The End of the World

Water Spirit - drawing fire

Super Slick Dusky Lighting Effects in Photoshop

Today i bring you some cool tutorials, tips and examples about PureMVC. If you don’t know what this framework is, we can describe it in a simple way as a framework that enable developers to build modular applications in Air, Flash and Flex. What means modular applications? You build an application divided in several small applications that you can load or unload based on user / application / solution requirements.

But you can know more about the features of PureMVC at their official site. Now let’s take a look to these tutorials and examples that will introduce and help you developing applications:

Tutorials

• Getting Started with the PureMVC Startup Manager
• Flex, PureMVC, Jabber and XIFF 3: Introduction
• Building a Flash site using PureMVC
• How to create a PureMVC app with Actionscript 3
• How to Build a Simple FLV Player in Flash and Flex using the PureMVC Framework
• pureMVC assetLoader utility

Tips

• 10 tips for working with PureMVC

Examples

• A basic PureMVC MultiCore AS3 example using Pipes Utility and Modules

• Renju, The Game

The last 2 post on Illustrator Tutorials roundup were some of the most asked, so i decided to post more of cool Ai Tutorials. Hope you find them useful and helpful.

One cool thing you can do in Flash and Flex, is to create custom classes in order to help you to repeat certain tasks in a easily manner. Today i show you a collection of some cool custom classes, which can help you to develop more and faster.

SoundManager

The SoundManager is a Singleton that does exactly what it says. It has a host of methods to choose from that should make adding sounds to your projects super simple. It has a dependency to TweenLite for the sound fading

Active Window Blur

Blurs a background (MovieClip or Sprite) behind a transparent window (MovieClip or Sprite).

TweenMax

TweenMax builds on top of the TweenLite core class and its big brother, TweenFilterLite, to round out the tweening family with popular (though not essential) features like bezier tweening, pause/resume capabilities, easier sequencing, hex color tweening, and more.

YouTube

A simple light class to connect to the YouTube gdata API and source playlists and featured videos.

Pulse Particles

Pulse Particles is a general purpose AS3 particle system.

Animated Bitmap

The AnimatedBitmap class provides functionality for Bitmap objects that are animated by using a series of still images. When creating a new AnimatedBitmap you provide a BitmapData object that contains an image that consists of the ’single-frame’ images for the animation.

QueueLoader

The QueueLoader is an actionscript library for sequential asset loading and monitoring. QueueLoader is designed to be used with Actionscript 3.0 and has become an open source project. If you are interested in contributing please contact the project leader.

Prioritization

The url prioritization class, it works with Loader, URLLoader, and Sound Objects (and maybe NetStream objects one day). This will let you set a priority for requests so they execute in the right order, take a look at currently executing requests or loading requests.

DistortImage

An updated version of the original DistortImage class for AS2, which allows you to programmatically distort images.

Layout class

This class - rather, a collection of 3: Layout, LayoutConstraint, and LayoutManager - provide that functionality to objects in Flash CS3 through ActionScript 3 using a somewhat similar API (though ActionScript only, no authoring interface). Using these classes you can constrain objects to the top, right, bottom, left, or center them horizontally or vertically within a layout. There are also controls for height and width as well as a property for maintaining aspect ratio.

Color Sampler Class

Color sampling engine for DisplayObjects. Takes a defined sample area (width, height, x, y) of a BitmapData object and computes the average color within the area. The RGB, red channel, green channel, blue channel, hue, saturation, and brightness values are stored from the sample.

2D Character Rigging Classes

The AS 3 rigging classes are used for skelton rigging and skinning of 2D characters. The rigging class library is organized around the development of highly specific articulated rigs. The current focus is on humaniod bipedal characters.

XML Loader Class

AS3 XML loader

StyleCollection

The StyleCollection class lets you create groups of styles that are applied to and automatically updated on subscribing components. It supports both instance and renderer styles (setStyle and setRendererStyle respectively), and uses component introspection to apply only relevant styles to each component. StyleCollection exposes a robust interface, including a static interface that provides global access to named styles.

Easing

Easing is a Singleton that lets you do dynamic point-to-point property tweening. It is able to manipulate virtually any property of any object on or off the stage.

CSSLoader

The class enables you to load CSS files into your flex application during runtime, a functionality Actionscript3.0 lacks.

Autocomplete Text Field

Create an automcplete text field in an AS 3 project.

fZIP

A little Actionscript 3 class that enables you to load standard ZIP archives and extract contained files while the archive is still loading.

Reflection Class

Generate reflections from images

There are great works around the web using this awesome technique called matte painting. If you want to improve your skills on this, take a look to the following tutorials and try to complete them.

Distant Shores

Making Fire Energy

Winter

Fantasy digital matte painting

Making of The Hidden City

One of the most searched entries at Flash Enabled Blog is the Flex Calendar. Therefore i decided today to present you a collection of cool Calendars with source available so you can research and customize for your own needs. Feel free to drop a line with your own Flex Calendars and i will make sure to feature them here.

Download source

Download Source

Download Source

Download Source

Download Source

No matter if we are speaking about a personal or company site, it’s usual to see the use of an image gallery to show their portofolio, or photos or other things. Flash is usualy the choosed platform to develop this kind of popular application. Today i decided to showcase some tutorials where you can learn how to create a cool as3 image gallery:

Parallax Gallery

Building a 3D album with FIVe3D and TweenLite

XML Portfolio Viewer

Simple ActionScript 3 XML Gallery

AS3 Photo Viewer

Image Gallery Tutorial

Image Gallery Tutorial

Make a Featured Content Slider for Your Site

With the recent increase of 3D Engines Frameworks, some people comes across with difficulties to model objects, as it wasn’t usual to have this kind of tasks on the daily “to-do” list. Therefore, i bring you 12 3D tutorials to help us improving our skills on modeling 3D objects.

Making of Wood/Concrete WC

3D Land Rover Modeling

Smart Terrain

Making of Urban

Simple Off-road Tire

Creating 3dsmax Clouds

Modeling a Plant

Karamendos Cell

Quick Lava Tutorial

Fast Randomise

Making of Total Kitchen

Creating a Comet with Particle Flow

The Tech Labs is growing, and tutorials too. This month we have published 6 new and extensive tutorials on Flash Platform. We are working to deliver more educative, extensive and quality tutorials to the comunity, and if you feel that there is a small author on you, why don’t you try to write your own tutorial and contribute to this great project? Moreover, we are paying you USD 100 per each published tutorial.

How to build a AS3 Videoplayer

Create a AS3 Slideshow with XML

How to build a contact manager in AIR using XML - Part 2

Creating a Weather Widget with XML and AS3

Building a 3D album with FIVe3D and TweenLite

Create a AS3 MP3 Player with papervision3d spectrum display

Today is time to feature some good articles about AMFPHP. If you want to learn more on remoting Flash then the following tutorials are for you. These 14 tutorials will introduce you the AMFPHP, as also give you some skills by developing complete applications.

• Introduction to AMFPHP 1
• AMP: Creating your first feed
• Flash Remoting with AS3

• Flex2/Actionscript3.0 and AMFPHP

• AMFPHP on AIR Tutorial with MAMP

• Communication between Flash and AMFPHP made easy

• AMFPHP in Flash CS3 with AS3 - jQuery.post style
• Combining Drupal, AMFPHP, SWFAddress and Flash
• How to set up a simple connection from Actionscript 3 to call your services in AMFPHP
• Displaying Paypal IPN payment data in Adobe Flex via AMFPHP
• AMF-PHP based poll in Flex
• Youtube Data API AS3
• How to use AMFphp 1.9 beta with Flex
• Writing private attributes to a database using AMF in AS3

This time, i will not feature tutorials. Instead, i will show some inspirational work to give you some ideas for your own work. Usually, the inspiration comes from the cultural, environmental and economical moment you are passing through. The mix between these 3 factors grants a final unique result that even the author will have difficulty to achieve later on. So, don’t waste your time thinking what you would do, let it go inside you and open your mind to new ideas. Hope that the next examples will help you do that.

Our supporters Flashloaded have just started to selling the Partigen component. Partigen is a great particle engine which we can use for creating awesome effects like smoke, snow, explosions, etc. In order to use it, Partigen comes with a easy to use interface, so you can customize your particles with simple clicks.

The Key Features are:

This month post with lot’s of cool free fonts. Typography is one of the most important things in to take into consideration while you are developing your works. Pls, bear in mind to check the use restrictions of each font.