Help on Fading

[jgkool]

got couple of questions:
1. how to make a mask that can cover a pic to make the pic blur, in other words, how to make a see through mask and use on a pic?

2. how to make a video frame or a pic frame to fade out at the end of play and call an other frame to start play? Please help!

[TomServo24]

Unfortunately, in Flash something is either a mask or it's not. There's no such thing as a semi transparent mask. Fowever, I have made some blur effects by putting whatever pic you want to blur in a movie clip, then duplicating that clip 2 or 3 times with very low alpha, like 10 or 12. Then I place the duplicated clips on top of the original and move each one by 1 or 2 pixels. This makes a certain kind of blur, but nothing nearly as pretty as a true Gaussian or anything.

I'm not too sure what your second question is. Can you rephrase it?

Good luck!
-Dan

[jgkool]

thanks for the help. I think you answered my second questions, but I sitll would like to know if it's possible to have a transparent mask over a pic or a movie clip, and how to make a transparent mask?

[bfarleigh]

have fun tom