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STEPS TO FOLLOW

Open a new flash file (Ctrl+N). The New Document window will appear. Select General panel and choose Type: Flash Document. Press OK. If your timeline window is not open, press (Ctrl+Alt+T). Now you can see a single Layer called "Layer1" in your timeline Window.

Select the first frame. Import a background image onto stage, preferably an image of a street by clicking on File>Import>Import to Stage, or just press (Ctrl+R).

Press F8, to convert this image to a symbol. Name this Symbol "background_gr" and choose graphic behavior. Press OK. Name this Layer "bg". On the 35th frame press F6 to insert a new frame

Select the second layer. Import an image or create a shape of a car using shape tools from the tool box. Press F8, to convert this image to a symbol. Name this Symbol "car1_m" and choose movie clip (F8). Press OK. Name this Layer "car1".

Select the image(car1_m) >right click>edit in place. Now you will come to a new timeline Window called Symbol2

On Frame1 of Symbol2 convert the image to a graphic (car1_gr). Go to the Properties Bar>Color>Alpha>0%. In Frame5 insert a new Key frame (Press F6) and change Alpha to 100% and make the image small. Eg : Pic Right click in between Frame1 and Frame5 and press motion tween. Add one more Key Frame in Frame20. In this frame make the Image(car1_gr)bigger and move it out. eg:

On Frame25 insert a new key frame and change Alpha to 0% . Insert motion tween in between frame5-20 and Frame20-25. eg:

Now press (Ctrl+Enter) to view your motion tween. Continue to do this for your other car images.

Remember to insert only ONE symbol/image in ONE new Layer only.

Masking in Flash
Masking is revealing portion of your picture or graphic in the layer below.

STEPS TO FOLLOW
Inserting Layers and Naming them

By default you will have a layer in your timeline window. Insert one more layer, totally you 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 picture to the "background" layer. Using Oval tool from your tool box, draw a circle in your "Mask" layer and delete it's border. Drag the circle to one end of your picture. Now 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 that your background image is available all through 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 your picture. Now 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.

Masking

Right click on the "Mask" layer (the area where you named the layer not where the frames exist) and select Mask.

Your Mask is all ready. Press Ctrl+Enter to view your Mask.

Blur Effect
Steps to Follow : Step 1: Import an image and create a movie clip

Open Flash 8.0. Select New/Flash Document. Import the image you would like to blur by clicking on File/Import to Stage and select the image. Select the image on the stage and choose Modify/Convert To Symbol. Name the symbol blur and choose Movie Clip as Type.

Step 2: Create the blur effect

Select the blur symbol on the stage. In the Properties Inspector, choose the Filters tab Click on the '+' icon and choose Blur. Choose 100 for Blur X and Blur Y and Quality as Medium.

Step 3: Create the animation

In the timeline window right click on the 50th frame choose insert keyframe. Select the movie clip and change the blur filter X and Y values to 0 to remove the blur effect. Select any frame between Frames 1 and 50 and select Motion from the tween pop-up menu in the Property inspector. Press Ctrl+S to save your changes.

Press Ctrl+Enter to view your animation. You can also blur only the X coordinates by removing the lock icon in the filters inspector and changing Blur X to 100 and Blur Y to 0. The effect can be seen below. You can try different blur effects by simply adjusting the blur X and blur Y values.

Flash Fade In and Fade Out Effect

STEPS TO FOLLOW
1. Open a new file. Go to File >New. A Screen called New Document will appear. Select Flash Document and click on OK. Go to Modify>Document and give a file size of 300px by 200px. This is the same size as the Bitmap pictures we have. 2. Select the Bitmap pictures that you want to Fade in and Fade out from your picture file and bring it to the Flash Library. Select File>Import to Library from the Menu Bar. A Screen named Import To Library will open. Choose the file name and click on Open. Repeat these steps for all the Bitmap pictures. To open Library, go to Window>Library. You can see the pictures in the Library panel. 3. Drag the picture from the Library panel to the Stage. Select the picture by clicking on it. Go to Modify>Convert To Symbol from the Menu Bar. A dialog Box named Create New Symbol will appear. Give the name as pic1_mc. Select Movie Clip. Click on OK. 4. Click on your Movie Clip. Go to Frame 15. Insert a Keyframe. Right click on layer 1 in the middle of the frames 1 to frames 15. The frames will become black. Select Create Motion Tween. An arrow from frame 1 to frame 15 will appear. Again click on Frame 30. Insert a Keyframe. A second arrow will appear automatically. 5. Click on Frame 1. Here we will give the fade in effect. Select the picture by clicking on it. Go to Properties in the panel below the Stage. Go to Color>Alpha give 0% to it.

Your picture has faded in. Click on Frame 30. Here we will give the fade in effect. Select the picture by clicking on it. Go to Properties in the panel below the Stage. Go to Color>Alpha give 0% to it. 6. Repeat the steps 3 to 5 in layer 2 from the frame 31 to 45 to 60. To make a new layer, click on the following button which is on the right side below the layers. Repeat the above steps for all the images in new layers and you will create a simple fade in and fade out Flash animation. Press on Ctrl+Enter to see the Fade in & Fade out Effect of the 4 pictures.

Motion Guide
What is Motion Guide? Motion Guide is nothing but moving your symbol in a predefined path such as curves or circles. Learn how to move Flash objects in circular, zig zag or curved paths using Flash motion guide.

Steps to follow :
1. Create a graphic symbol or drag a pre-existing graphic symbol from library onto the stage. Name the layer as "graphic" 2. Right click on the "graphic" label and select "Add Motion Guide" from the pop-up window. 3. A new layer will appear on top of the "graphic" layer with the label "Guide:graphic" along with the guide icon. 4. Draw the path for your symbol in this new layer using pencil or line tool. For example: I drew a circle for my car. 5. Select frame 50 of guide layer and press "F5" to insert frames. 6. Now go to "Frame 1" of "graphic" layer and drag your symbol to one end of your path. While dragging, you will see a bubble on the symbol. That bubble should go right below the path. Something like the one shown below.

7. 8. Now go to "Frame 50" of "graphic" layer and press F6 to insert a new keyframe. 9. Now drag your symbol to other end of your path. Again, the bubble should go right below the path. 10. Select any frame between 1 to 50 of your "graphic" layer. Right click and select "motion tween" from the pop-up menu. That's it, you are through. Press Ctrl+Enter to view your work.

Glow Effect
Flash 8 has 3 kinds of glow effects i.e. glow, knockout and inner glow . You will learn how to create these effects in this tutorial. First, open a new Flash document in Flash 8 and use the text tool to write some sample text. Now convert this to a symbol by choosing the text clicking on Modify > Convert to Symbol... Choose Movie Clip, give the symbol a name and click on ok. Choose the symbol and click on the Filters tab which is next to the Properties tab and use the plus (+) symbol to choose the Glow filter. You will see the Glow options as shown below. Here you can change the glow color, blur and strength. Try out the options to see the changes.

Example of a glow effect can be seen below.

You can also use Knockout and Inner shadow for different effects. See below.