If you got into the way of doing everything yourself and personal photo gallery is not an exception, this post is right for you. Here you can find 10 informative and useful tutorials covering several ways to create a nifty image gallery. Some of them are quite basic while others require more advanced knowledge of programming languages and Flash software. Ready to dive into Flash development and get your hands dirty in ActionScript? Then go and create your own flash photography album using these great tutorials below. Notice that you will need Adobe Flash installed on your computer (see required versions in tutorials).

Building a 3D album with FIVe3D and TweenLite

This tutorial shows you how to create a simple 3D photo album by means of two open-source ActionScript3 libraries FIVe3D and TweenLite. It is a quite helpful article for those who is well familiar with Flash programming and want to expand their knowledge.

How to create a simple image gallery in Flash CS4

This is a basic Flash gallery tutorial for beginners and users with little to none programming experience. It shows how to create a simple yet nice image gallery with thumbnails in Flash CS4. You will also learn how to apply a couple of nice effect to the gallery.

Simulating PicLens with Flex and Away 3D

This is the first of a 3 part tutorial which is a step by step guide for creating a Piclens-like 3D photo viewer. IT requires intermediate programming knowledge, moderate skills in ActionScript and some basic knowledge of Flash CS3.

Create and skin a photo gallery Flickr, Flex and ActionScript 3.0

The authors of this Flex tutorial show you how to make a primitive Flex photo gallery that retrieves photos from the Flickr Feeds. You will also learn how to se custom skins, HTTP Request’s and custom components. To make use of this tutorial you need to be basically familiar with ActionScript3, Flex Framework and Flex Builder 3. You will also need Flex Builder 3 installed on your computer.

Create a Photo Gallery

Even if you are not familiar with Adobe Flash software, this tutorial is quite easy to understand. You will learn how to create a simple photo gallery with “Next” and “Previous” arrow buttons in Flash MX. *.fla files with images used for this tutorial are available for downloading.

Photo Gallery using XML and Flash

Another great tutorial from Kirupa.com. This one is a bit more advanced than the previous one. With this tutorial you can learn how to create an XML-based flash image gallery which won’t require manual editing of the *fla file in order to add an extra image to your album. All you have to do instead is to change the XML file which is as easy as 1, 2, 3. The tutorial is very well written and easy to read. The author also provides you with related materials that will help you get the idea about XML data in Flash.

Creating an XML slideshow in Flash

By means of this tutorial you can learn how to build an XML slideshow in Flash using ActionScript 2.0. It requires some basic knowledge of ActionScript features, such as MovieClipLoader Class, Tween Class,  XML Class, setInterval method, functions, loops, arrays, and conditionals.

AS3 Photo Gallery

This is a brief tutorial for advanced users. The authors use XML to display and update the gallery data and Tweener class to add some nice transitions. You will need Flash CS 3 and higher for this lesson.

Flash Gallery tutorial

A Flash tutorial showing you how to create a gallery, with a shrinking square transition, using advanced ActionScript. It consists of 6 parts and provides some nice big screenshots.

TV transition image slideshow

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a slideshow, which has fuzz TV transition between the images. This article is easy to read and understand, no serious Flash or ActionScript knowledge is required here.  You will need Flash 8 or higher to apply this tutorial practically.

Hopefully these tutorials will come in handy for your Flash dev experiments. In case all this is a bit more difficult than you expected, there are heaps of solutions allowing you to create photo galleries and full-fledged online portfolios without any professional skills. Lest there be any doubts, check the trial version of Ready Photo Site CMS and try to create a photo gallery there. And how long do you think will it take you to create the most basic image gallery in Flash and integrate it to your website? Exactly.

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