How To Create A Simple Flash Slideshow

[barrym67]

Hi there everyone. I am not very clued up with Flash as I would like to be. I need to create a very simple slide show of images, I suppose flash would be the answer.

An example of a site that I like is here: http://international.carveryachts.com/

Does anyone know what programme I can use to create such a slide show. I want it simple, no forward of back buttons or having to use premade templates.

Any feedback would be most wonderful - thank you.

[jyoung]

It appears that the site you referenced uses javascript to do the slide show. Here is a link that may give you what you want - and it's free. http://www.barelyfitz.com/projects/slideshow/

Hope this helps.

[juergen]

I used Xara to create this. I followed instructions from the help:
Flash Animations- Your first animation.

I hope the transparency transition is what you mean.

Juergen

[barrym67]

Tks for the link jyoung and jeurgen I like that tomato transition you made. I will look in the help and see if I can find how to do it. You guys have been great, thank you so much for your help.

[barrym67]

I used Xara to create this. I followed instructions from the help:
Flash Animations- Your first animation.

I hope the transparency transition is what you mean.

Juergen

Juergen

With you help I managed to get a slideshow on the go. Please tell me how you managed to get the images to "fade in" and out. I would apprecitat it.
Thanks a stack.

[juergen]

Sure,

Create new animation.
On first frame do following:

1. Copy the image to be displayed as 2nd one.
2. Set name to something meaningful (Create New Names)
3. Set transparency to flat - 50%
4. Copy image 1 on top
5. Set display time for frame1 to .. 2 seconds .

Copy frame

1. Set transparency of the front image to 100% to make it invisible
2. Select back image and set transparency to 0%.

Look at flash preview.

Juergen

[barrym67]

Juergen thanks you so much for your time. I will give that a bash, wish me luck, the animation (flash) approach is new to me and a little confusing and all because I don't know how.

[remi]

Hi Barry,

take a look at the attached XAR file.



You can recreate this Slideshow with the following steps:

1. Create a new animation. The new animation has only one frame at the beginning.
2. Import your first image.
3. Import your second image. The second image lies over the first image.
4. Select the second image with the Selector Tool (F2) and give this image a new name (for example "test").
5. Set the transparency for the second image to 100%. It's invisible after that step, but it's already there.
6. Open the "Animation Frame Gallery".
7. Click on the Button "Properties" and set the Display time for this frame to 2 seconds.
8. Click on the Button "Copy" to create your second frame in this animation.
9. Your new created frame should be the active frame for the next steps.
10. Select the invisible image and set the transparency back to 0%. Now the second image is visible and because it's in the front, the first image isn't visible anymore.
11. Preview the Flash animation in your Browser.

Regards,
Remi

PS: The source of the used images in this animation is www.pixelio.de

[barrym67]

Remi and Juergen has anyone told you guys that you are "simply the best!!" Thank you! What a lifesaver you guys have been. I will work on those animations as soon as I can.

My little sad story is that my website which has been carrying itself for the last seven months or so has just stopped bringing in sales for some very strange reason. I am so low on funds this month and cannot afford to pay the Internet, Telephone and ADSL charges and i have had the freak-out.

Seeing that I am being looked after from sources from above, suddenly I have about three people wanting webistes created urgently and though I am not a professional website designer I stumble along and somehow get there eventually.

The way the net has progressed when it comes to CSS and Flash has left me a little cold and trying to keep up with the modern new web design/style is a bit confusing (never even got used to the old way properly).

So you see your help has proven more value to me than you can imagine. I am doing demo pages for the clients to see and hopefully they will accept (so that I can stop worrying about finances!)

Many, many thanks for all the effort you guys have shown. Once I had done the animations I will post them for you to see. It may be very much later or even tomorrow because what I did (seeing that I could not perfect the Flash animation) I exported my images as an animated GIF just for a temporary solution and we will pretend that it is flash!

[aridzone]

You can also view a tutorial in Xara Xone:

http://www.xaraxone.com/guest/guest71/