Overview

Free Flash Intro creates attractive slideshows with cool 3D slice effects and transitions between adobeflash cube slides. You'll be able to divide your images into any number of pieces and rotate them the way you like! Free Flash Intro uses the Tweener engine, which makes it support several tween types for the transitions, such as Cubic, Bounce or Elastic. Use Free Flash Intro to create content slider, image galleries, image & banner rotator for your website. You don't need to have any professional skills in Flash, HTML, CSS and Javascript. All need files and html code will be generated in Free Flash Intro visual interface for Windows and MAC OS. Just open images in Free Flash Intro program, specify the description and adjust transition properties for each image. Publish the Free Flash Intro to a local drive or directly to the Internet via a built-in FTP client and add the HTML embed code on your website or blog. As a result you'll have .swf (flash) file that requires an XML configuration file in which the paths to the existing images and settings, necessary for handling those, are defined. You can also define the appearance in terms of font-family, font-style, color, etc. in an external CSS file, making customization really easy.

Free Flash Intro Features

Key Features

  • Customize the number of pieces, tween type, z-distance, distance, time, delay and more. Horizontal or vertical cubing.
  • Specify the description for each image. Use your favorite font, size, color! Add hyperlinks to text! flash cs5 mouseover
  • Images are loaded on the fly – no loading times in between.
  • No limit on number of images.
  • Real 3D transitions. Left, right, up, down direction.
 

Visual Interface

  • Windows and MAC versions of Visual interface.
  • Use photos directly from Flickr or PhotoBucket in your image slider.
  • Built-in FTP client.
  • Tween types for the transitions, such as Cubic, Bounce or Elastic ...
  • Cross-browser support.
  • Make changes in XML file directly (add images, change animation, descriptions.. )

Quick Help

Part 1 - Adding folders with images or images to Free Flash Intro

From the Images menu, select Add images.... Browse to the location of the folder you'd like to add and select the images. You can also use Add images from folder..., Add images from Flickr... and Add images from Photobucket... options.

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Free Flash Intro Maker will now include these pictures. Or you can drag the images (folder) to the Free Flash Intro window. The image is copied to your pictures folder and automatically added to Free Flash Intro. If you have included the images that you do not wish to be in the slideshow, you can easily remove them. Select all images that you wish to remove from slide show, and select Delete images.. from the Images menu. You can pick and choose pictures by holding the CTRL while clicking the pictures you like.

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Part 2 - Adding description

When you select an image you'll be able to add headline and paragraph for the description:
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  • Headline - When you add images its name will appear in headline automatically.
  • Paragraph - you can enter any comment or text about the image in the image slider.

Part 3 - Editing capabilities

In this slide show maker you can easily rotate your pictures using "Rotate Left" and "Rotate Right" buttons.
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Double click the picture to open it in your default graph editor. You can adjust the color of pictures, as well as fix red-eye and crop out unwanted parts of an image.

Part 4 - Gallery properties

From the Gallery menu, select Properties or use "Properties" button on the toolbar Properties button : thumbnail flash xml gallery with. On the first tab of the Gallery Properties window you can change the name of your flash scroll images right to left and enable/disable the following properties: Shadow, Watermark.
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On the second tab of the Gallery Properties window you can select the size of Free Flash Intro. Specify Number of segments, Rotation direction and Delay between rotations.
Properties window : iweb flash rotator
The following rotation directions are available:

   Up effect                                Down effect                              Left effect                                 Right effect        

Up effect Down effect Left effect Right effect
Click Advanced options button to specify the transition effect.
Advanced window : flash horizontal pan image
You can specify Image quality, Transition time, Segment transition delay, Z-Distance, Segments distance, Transition type. On the third tab of the Gallery Properties window you can specify the look of the descriptions, select the transition effect to show the description (UpDown or Fade), background color and font properties for Headline, Paragraph and links.
Description window : instalar flash photo gallery

Part 5 - Publishing of the Free Flash Intro Image slider

When you are ready to publish your slideshow online or to a local drive for testing you should go to "Gallery/Publish". Select the publishing method: publish to folder or publish to FTP server.
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  • publish to folder. To select a local location on your hard drive, just click the Browse folders button and choose a location. Then click Ok. You can also set "Open web page after publishing" option.
  • publish to FTP server. The FTP Location Manager window enables you to define a number of connections for use when uploading your slideshow to an FTP.
You are able to add a new FTP site by clicking "Edit" to the right of the "Publish to FTP server" drop down list. FTP Location Manager window will appear. Now type in a meaningful (this is not the actual hostname) name for your site and fill in the FTP details in the appropriate fields. You will have to type in your hostname, e.g. domain. The FTP port is normally located on port 21 thus this has been prefilled for you already. If your web site uses another port, you will have to enter it here. Type in your username and password for the connection. If you do not fill in this information, Free Flash Intro is unable to connect to your site and thus not able to upload your slideshow to website. If this site enables anonymous connections, just type in anonymous as the username and your e-mail address as the password. You might want to change the Directory as well if you need to have your uploaded images placed in e.g. "www/gallery/". You can specify it in the FTP Folder field on the Publish window.

Notice: Write the name of the folder where your slideshow will be placed on the server. Notice that you should specify this field; otherwise your slideshow will be uploaded into the root folder of your server!

Part 6 - Save your slide show as project file

When you exit CU3OX, you'll be asked if you want to save your project. The project consists of the pictures you choose to put on your slideshow and all your settings. It's a good idea to save the project, because that will allow you to change the project in case you decide to do something different with future slideshows. So click Yes, then enter a name for your project. To select the location of your project, just click the Browse folders button and choose a different location. Then click Save.

Part 7 - Add Free Flash Intro inside your own page

Free Flash Intro Maker generates a special code. You can paste it in any place on your page where you want to add image slider.     * Export flash xml input using Free Flash Intro software in any test folder on a local drive.
    * Open the generated index.html file in any text editor.
    * Copy all code for Free Flash Intro from the HEAD and BODY tags and paste it on your page in the HEAD tag and in the place where you want to have a simple non flash photo gallery (inside the BODY tag).

<body>
...
  <!-- Start CU3OX.com BODY section -->
  .....
  <!-- End CU3OX.com BODY section -->
...</body>

    * You can easily change the style of your image slider. Find the generated 'cu3oxXML.xml' file and open it in any text editor.

Download

Free Flash Intro Free Trial can be used for free for a period of 30 days.

If you would like to continue using this menu in flash cs4 product after the trial period, you should purchase a Business Edition. The Business Edition additionally provides an option to remove the CU3OX.com credit line as well as a feature to put your own logo to images. After you complete the payment via the secure form, you will receive a license key instantly by email that turns the Free Trial Version into a Business one. You can select the most suitable payment option: PayPal, credit card, bank transfer, check etc.


Support

For feature requests, troubleshooting, general help contact Customer Support at . Make sure to include details on your operating system, browser, a link (or relevant code) and CU3OX version.dice flash cs3 papervision




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