TiltViewer: An Interactive Flash Tool for your Web Gallery

One of my WebDesign students — the best in his class — is doing his final website project on the school’s art department featuring artworks by K-12 students. I encouraged him to use Flash so the images will be dynamic and interactive, even though I was never successful and thus never liked using Flash (except for user-friendly widgets). So after trying different free tools on the Web he finally settled for the “TiltViewer 3D Flash flash image viewing application” by Airtight Interactive.

In my opinion it’s the best app for artworks compared to the others that he tried. One can zoom in by clicking, and admire the artist’s brush or pen strokes or even the texture of pastel. By clicking on the rotate symbol you can view information (or the caption) such as the title and artist on the back of the each image. Move the mouse around and you get the 3D tilting effect. The one improvement I would like for this interactive tool is a zoom control panel, similar to the ones used for maps.