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Masking is revealing portion of your picture or graphic in the layer below. While surfing through net you might have come across lots of beautiful Flash effects such as ripple effect, some wording with sky background or glitter bordering an object, and wondered "How? What is the logic behind this.
Masking is revealing portion of your picture or graphic in the layer below. While surfing through net you might have come across lots of beautiful Flash effects such as ripple effect, some wording with sky background or glitter bordering an object, and wondered "How? What is the logic behind this.
Let's follow :
Inserting Layers and Naming them
1. By default you will have a layer in your timeline window. Insert one more layer, totally you need two layers to mask an object.
2. Rename the top layer to "Mask" and the layer below that to "background".
How To Creating Shape Tween ?
How To Creating Shape Tween ?
1. Import your picture to the "background" layer.
2. Using Oval tool form your tool box, draq a circle in your "Mask" layer and delete it's border.
3. Drag the circle to one end of your picture.
4. Go to frame 40 of your "Mask" layer and press F6 to insert a new keyframe.
5. Go to frame 40 of your "Background" layer and press F5 to insert frames, so that your background image is available all through your mask.
6. 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 your picture.
7. Go back to frame 1 of your "Mask" layer, keeping the playhead on frame 1 of your "Mask" layer, select Shape tween in your properties window.
9. CTRL+ENTER to running.
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Masking
8. Right click on the "Mask" layer (the are where you named the layer not where the frames exist) and select Mask.
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