Help please! Trying to re-produce an effect I've found!

Question

I'm in the middle of putting a website together for a client
and shes asked that this effect be included:
http://www.designersguild.co.uk
......the images changing. I cant work out if its a tween of
some sort or just a fade.........whether its done in flash or
photoshop?
Any help is VERY much appreciated
thanks
Rach xxxx
PS - great forum

Answer 1

you mean that cross fade? Check out this tutorial:
http://tutorials.learnflash.com/tutorials/flash/bettertransitionss.html
I wrote a simple class bellow to do just this, if you want to
use it, just drop it in your project and and then all you need is
an empty mc on the stage and the following code:
//init the crossFadeViewer
var fadeDuration:Number=1000; //fade duration in ms
var crossFadeViewer = new CrossFadeViewer(mc, fadeDuration);
//load image:
var url:String; //set this to the url of your img
crossFadevViewer.showImage(url);
//class CrosFadeViewer
import mx.transitions.Tween;
import mx.transitions.easing.*;
dynamic class CrossFadeViewer{
//private var _target:MovieClip;
private var _target:MovieClip;
private var _mask:MovieClip;
private var _container1:MovieClip;
private var _container2:MovieClip;
private var _currentContainer:MovieClip;
private var _previousContainer:MovieClip;
private var _movieClipLoader:MovieClipLoader;
private var _fadeDuration:Number=1;
public function
CrossFadeViewer(target:MovieClip,fadeDuration:Number){
//trace("CrossFadeViewer()");
_target=target;
_fadeDuration=fadeDuration;
//create containers
_container2 =
_target.createEmptyMovieClip("_container2",_target.getNextHighestDepth());
_container1 =
_target.createEmptyMovieClip("_container1",_target.getNextHighestDepth());
_movieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
_movieClipLoader.addListener(this);
_currentContainer = _container1;
_previousContainer = _container2;
public function showImage(url:String){
//trace("CrossFadeViewer.showImage("+url+")");
if(_currentContainer == _container1){
_currentContainer =_container2
_previousContainer= _container1;
else{
_currentContainer = _container1;
_previousContainer = _container2;
_currentContainer._alpha = 0;
_currentContainer.swapDepths(_previousContainer);
_movieClipLoader.loadClip(url,_currentContainer);
public function onLoadProgress(target, bytesLoaded,
bytesTotal){
//trace("onLoadProgress()"+ bytesLoaded +" / " +
bytesTotal);
public function onLoadComplete (target){
//_currentContainer._alpha=100;
//trace("onLoadComplete()");
fadeIn();
private function fadeIn():Void{
new
Tween(_currentContainer,"_alpha",Regular.easeIn,0,100,_fadeDuration,true);
If you need AS3 version of this, I can share it as well. Hope
this helps.