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lil boi blue -> RE: Flash Q&A thread 2 ** checked everyday (3/11/2006 22:24:09)
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-flasy text
-shadow effect
how do i make a flashy effect or spinning star around my text?
1)open flash document
2)make a box in the background, covering up all the white part of the stage
3)make the fill black (stage feeling)
4)with text tool, type 'STAGE'
5)on bottom of screen bring up the properties tab, closing action and help
6)highlight your text and make it like...80 font with blue color
7)now on timeline name the only layer there 'stage', after that make another layer and name it 'sparkle 1'
8)lock layer 'stage' so only sparkle 1 appears
9)in the tools column click squaretool and hold for 1 second, then select the polystar tool
10)in colors, click the pencil and below the fill color is a button with a red dash symbol in a white box saying 'no color', click it
11)go to properties which we opened at the beginging, click options in that tab
12)for style select star, give it 4 sides, and 0.05 point size
13) click the fill color and select yellow, then with color mixer make #FFFFC8
14)now, in sparkle 1 layer, in first frame make a tiny star so that itsl ike a dot (MAKE SURE that the layer stage is locked)
15)select the star and convert it to a graphic
16)on layer sparkle make a keyframe on frames 10 and 20
17)now on frame 10 make that little dot star bigger
18)right click on any frame between 1-10 and click 'create motion tween' do the same for 10-20, then make frame 20 a 'motiontween'
CHECKPOINT)= there should be 2 layers, layer 1 = stage_____layer 2= sparkle____ on layer stage there are the words 'STAGE' on layer 2/sparkle, there is a small star that is a graphic, frames 1-20 are keyframed for layer sparkle
19)click frame 2,3,4,5,6,7,8, or 9, any one works, (just dont press keyframe)
20)go to properties on bottom, and double click on the box so that you have two rows
21) on bottom row in middle there is a little box that says 'auto' in it, change it to CW
22)make the amount of rotations as much as you want
FIN) and your done, click Ctrl + enter to make sure everything works......these were a lot of instructions so if i seemed to have not explained one enough tell me and i'll expand on it or make more steps
how do i put a shadow effect on my text
1)open flash document
2)make 2 layers, one on top name 'shadow', one on bottom name 'text'
3)with text tool type 'test' in middle of stage with font 80 in MAKE SURE YOUR TYPING THIS IN LAYER TEXT
4)now that you've done that lock layer test and now we'll work with layer 'shadow'
5)in layer shadow type 'test' again on stage, except below the first test that you wrote
6)open properties tab located on bottom of screen and with freetransform tool select what will be our shadow text
7)choose fill color #999999 (shade of gray) for our shadow text
8)go to color mixer on right hand column (open it if you have too) and apply alpha at 50%
9)now your shadow text should be transparent a little so allign it with THE FIRST 'TEST' THAT YOU WROTE
10)with freetransform tool, skew it horizontally to the right (hover cursor over segment on top of selected area so it has 2 arrows pointing opposite direction and are parallel to eachother)
11) align the base of the shadow test so they pair up with the solid test
FIN)walla, your done with a cool shadow effect)
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