Re: FLASH: Blurred words

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 03:52 PM 2/27/00 , you wrote:

>By gradiant edges on the rectangle do you mean

>curved edges? and what do you mean by black to transparant? Thanks

>Chris


I mean a gradient fill. Make a rectangle. Choose the bucket tool. Choose 

the color square at the bottom of the drawing tools. Then choose the little 

palette in the window that pops up. Choose the gradient tab, select linear 

rather than radial. Click on one of the two color tabs and select black for 

its color. Click on the other and choose black also, but there's an alpha 

slider to the right that should be set to zero. Now select "new" and back 

out of the window. You now have a new color that's the gradient I spoke of. 

Apply  it to the rectangle. There's a gradient adjustment tool that can be 

selected while the bucket is selected. It's down toward the bottom right of 

the tools. You may need to choose it to determine where the center and 

edges of the fill are. Now make the rectangle a symbol and you'll be able 

to motion tween it to go from stage left to stage right, so that the 

gradient edge (which hopefully is on the right edge of the rectangle) 

sweeps across the blurred words and blocks them out gradually.


Marc Hoffman


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Production

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