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Macromedia® Flash™ 8 on Demand
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Macromedia® Flash™ 8 on Demand

by Andy Anderson, Steve Johnson - Perspection, Inc.
October 2005
Beginner to intermediate
560 pages
16h 50m
English
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Chapter 10. Creating Masks

What You’ll Do

Introduction

You can create mask layers to show and hide parts of your artwork on the Stage. A mask works like a window blocking out everything but a certain area that you define. Any shape, symbol or text object can be used as a mask. The shape you place in a mask layer defines the area that will be visible in the linked layers below it. You can animate a mask to reveal the content on a layer in stages or animate the art in the layer beneath the mask. It is useful for spotlighting and controlling the shape of the viewable area. Masks are great tools for keeping the boundaries of the ...

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