Image Generator Blog

SillyWebcam.com finally working again (wouldn't let you save images for last 6 months) and you can take snapshots again (save as JPG). Now it uses Flash 10 and ActionScript 3 and uses the users PC to process the image instead of my server needing to do heavy ASP/PHP processing. I also added a few new effects. I also made some of the webcam video effects able to take snap shots and save as JPEG files too! Eventually all the webcam games and video effects will allow you to save...

This was a big task as basically everything I spent years learning up to Macromedia Flash 8 (I started with Flash 4) were all wasted as most my scripts (source code FLA files) will not work in Adobe Flash 10, even the programming words/phrases are different and can handle different variables. I have been having to relearn how to make Flash content, it's been frustrating feeling like it will all be useless again in a few years (sure Adobe will keep things the same and just add new features, they bought out another company Macromedia and wanted to make it their way, I would too).

Sample Flash AS3 code to view a webcam:

var cam:Camera = Camera.getCamera();
var video:Video = new Video(480,360);
video.attachCamera(cam);
video.x = 0;
video.y = 0;
addChild(video);

Labels: adobe flash, control webcam, export, flash webcam, JPEGencoder, pics, save image, save jpg, video effects, web camera, webcam effects, webcam flash, webcam fun, webcam snapshot, webcam tricks, webcams

I had mentioned before (older post) about interactive webcams in Flash8, here's a follow up!

www.SillyWebcam.com is a new web site (new domain name too) I set up recently where you can make pix from your live webcam video. Obviously you will need a web cam to play around (even some games and funny time wasters), but you will also need Adobe Flash addon for your web browser to run the webcam tools.

Here are the webcam image making tools (save pics to hard drive):

• Fake Magazine Covers (put your face on the cover of 500 fake and popular magazine cover overlays)
• Silly Scenes (funny Flash overlays that put you in a different time or place, take a pic, 100 layouts)
• World's Best Award (choose from 250 certificates to put your video capture in)
• Greeting Cards (mini templates, add personalized text message, over 200 styles)
• Your Face On Another Body (choose from 400 body scenes, use webcam, save JPG to your computer)
• Borders (borders and edges to spruce up a webcam, capture a digital photo, 50 templates)
• Frames (museum/gallery quality mirror frames, take a snapshot with a nice frame, 25 overlays)
• 500 Hairstyles: Women's short, medium, long, wedding, funky, up or mens (pics for hairstylists)
• Instant Photo (just capture 480X360 pixel up-to-date images of yourself without any effects)
  

Labels: actionscript, capture, flash, graphics, image generator, interactive, jpg, layouts, printable, save, templates, webcam, webcams