Adobe Flash Tutorial
Drop Shadows - Transparent shadows
This example explain how you can import a bitmap into a flash movie (To convert a bitmap to a vector graphic).
How to make drop shadows. Follow these steps:
- Select the outline of the object for which you want to make a shadow for. If there's no outline, create one with the Ink Bottle tool [I]
- From the menu bar, choose Insert -> Convert to Symbol [F8]
- Choose Edit - Edit Symbol [Ctrl + E], and use the Paint Bucket tool to fill the outline with black or dark gray
- Click on the symbol that you want to be transparent (shadow) and select Window -> Panels -> Effect
- Select 'Alpha' and drag the slider to 50 percents. The shadow is now a medium gray, and you can see through it.
If you click at the other symbol that isn't transparent, you see that the effect is set to 'None'.
Some words about options in the Effect panel:
Brightness adjusts the relative lightness or darkness of the image, measured on a scale from black (-100%) to white (100%).
Tint colors the instance with the same hue. Use the Tint slider at the top of the panel to set the tint percentage, from transparent (1%) to completely saturated (100%). To select a color, enter red, green, and blue values in the respective text boxes or drag the component sliders; or use the Color Picker.
Alpha adjusts the transparency of the instance.
Advanced separately adjusts the red, green, blue, and transparency values of an instance. This is most useful when you want to create and animate subtle color effects on objects such as bitmaps. The controls on the left let you reduce the color or transparency values by a specified percentage. The controls on the right let you reduce or increase the color or transparency values by a constant value.
The current red, green, blue, and alpha values are multiplied by the percentage values, and then added to the constant values in the right column, producing the new color values. For example, if the current red value is 100, setting the left slider to 50% and the right slider to 100 produces a new red value of 150 ((100 x .5) + 100 = 150).
Any changes you make update automatically on the Stage.
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Drop Shadows - Transparent shadows
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