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How to Cheat in Adobe Flash CS4
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How to Cheat in Adobe Flash CS4

by Chris Georgenes
August 2013
Beginner to intermediate
368 pages
16h 23m
English
Focal Press
Content preview from How to Cheat in Adobe Flash CS4

Soft Reveal

FLASH LACKS THE ABILITY to create masks with soft edges. When you use masks in Flash, you are limited to a hard edge, even if the mask contains a gradient with one color mixed with 0% alpha. Perhaps someday a future version of Flash will support masks with feathered edges. Until then, we need a work-around. So far the only solution I have been able to come up with is not even a mask at all. It’s a simple gradient with at least one color mixed with 0% alpha. In the end, the effect is successful because it is what the viewer doesn’t see that convinces them visually.

 

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ISBN: 9780240521312