Posted by Dan Housman at 06:15 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

This week in my flash class we learned how to use the "trace image" feature to convert a picture into a cartoon. Actually it converts a bitmap to a vector image. So I traced my baby and a scene from Beacon street for her to stand in front of.

Posted by Dan Housman at 08:01 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

While this is still not very cool because I haven't added any interactivity to it yet so that people can do fun things by interacting with the photos but I now have a database driven flash file that is pulling each image using an XML file generated in PHP to query a database and the database can be loaded one directory at a time by running a PHP script on any directory of thumbnails (provided it is in the same base path - bimages in my case). Next I'll try adding some menus and a way to look at the larger version of the thumbnail.

The code is as follows:

Flash
PHP code

Posted by Dan Housman at 09:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

I was playing with Flash to see if I could make a simple photo album that you load images from pre-existing URLs on my web site. For now it loads them from an array of items that I put into the Flash file itself but I could take it a step further and have it get the array from a database on the web server through an XML file output through PHP and MySQL or something like that. But for now it hopefully should work. One challenge with it on my machine was that it triggers some security garbage because it is loading the images to the desktop. But here it is in raw first draft form...

Posted by Dan Housman at 11:14 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)