Flash

Changing the color scheme of a Flash animation allows you to create wide-ranging effects, such as shifting the animation from day to night. Changing the color of an image to sepia tones will give an old-time mood, whereas changing the colors ...

This is not an obvious technique and not one ordinarily applied to video transitions, but that's the whole point of a hack—to explore the nonobvious. The Boy Can't Dance You can always tell when videographers have to create a pop mus...

For example, you can apply a color transformation to a video [Hack #8] to create instantaneous color effects. This hack applies a color transformation over time to create fade effects. Transitions Over Time For a time-based trans...

Furthermore, we saw that this requires a bit of housekeeping, including setting up timers and callbacks [Hack #9]. The nature of the task suggests that it is a great candidate to be implemented as a custom class. The class can take care of all ...

You can save the current palette from the Color Swatches panel as a Flash color set (CLR file). However, incorporating the colors in the Color Swatches panel into your workflow, such as arranging your colors into meaningful groups, isn't easy...

The human eye is relatively poor at discerning color. A dark red set against other dark reds will appear darker if it is viewed around whites and may even appear black. This is to be expected because the human eye has evolved to discern relat...

Flash also has this ability, although it is not immediately apparent. This hack shows how to create a sepia effect manually in Photoshop and then convert the workflow to Flash. Creating a Sepia Effect in Photoshop Sepia tones imitate...