How do you make a rectangle with a glow on it? designers please help!

[tetris]

i realy like the glowing effect on the rectangles on this site, how do you make this using the flash tools? please help!

here is the site im talking about:
http://www.digitaljwt.com.ar/

[pellepiano]

Many parts of the site is not made in Flash ( After Effects is a good guess ).

In Flash you use Modify>Shape>Soften Fill Edges to make glows or dropshadows.
Select your shape and try it few times to get the hang of how it works.

[tetris]

aah, thank you so much.

do you recommend doing most design in flash or is it good to bring photoshopped stuff in too? sometimes i am having trouble with the pixels on the edges showing when i bring a picture i made in photoshop over to flash with a transparent back ground. any tips on how to clean up the image for the edges? i get some white pixels scattered on the outline of my images. again thanks for the help!

[pellepiano]

Clean the edges in photoshop with a black bakground ( or a contrasting color ) sou you'll see that you get rid of everything.

Save as png-24 as it supports 256 levels of alpha os oppesed to a gif's either on or off.

It depends on the graphics. It can be hard to mix both Flash and PS graphics. I usually use only Flash or only PS.

You can do a lot of graphics in flash although natural bevels is very hard.

[tetris]

thanks alot for your info, you have been great help!

if i wanted to create a shadow effect on a rectangle, would i use the same "soften fill edges" technique on another layer and move it below the rectangle? or is there another way to make the shadow effect? also for a glowing effect on text, it seems that the soften fill edges is not available, is there an alternate way to make text glow?

[pellepiano]

I copy my shape to a layer beneath , change color to a half transparent black and do the soften fill edges there ( like you ).

Text has to be concerted to vectors ( shapes ) first. Modify>Breal Apart ( twice ).

Its not working well with type though ( youll notice ). It depends a lot on how the letters look.

For some things its better to add the shadow in PS and save as a png.