This tutorial will teach you the basics of masking in Flash
MX 2004.
Masking is illuminationg
portion of your graphic in the layer below.
When you surfing through internet you might have seen lots
of beautiful Flash effects such as ripple effect , some wording
with nice background or glitter bordering an object, and you might wondered "How it can be done?
and What's the logic used for this". This is called masking. We will go through this step by step.
Please note:
You need to have Flash Player 7.0 installed to view.
By default you will have a layer, insert one more layer, so you will have two layers now. We need two layers to mask
an object.
Rename the top layer to "Mask" and
the layer below that to "background".
Creating Shape Tween
Import your image to the "background" layer.
Take Oval tool from tool box, draw a circle in the "Mask" layer
and delete it's border.
Drag the circle to one end
of your picture.
Then go to"frame 40" of your "Mask" layer
and press "F6" to insert a new keyframe.
Now go to "frame 40" of your "background" layer
and press "F5" to insert frames, so the background image is available through out your
mask.
Select "frame 40" of your "Mask" layer,
that is your new keyframe, Keeping the playhead on "frame
40" of "Mask" layer, drag the circle
to other end of the image.
Then go back to "frame
1" of the "Mask" layer,
keeping the playhead on "frame 1" of "Mask" layer,
select Shape tween from properties window.
Masking
Right click on the "Mask" layer and select
Mask.
You are done! Press Ctrl+Enter to view the result.
See one more sample given below to get more ideas.
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