One great Effect that can be created in flash very easily is fading text it
can make your site look alot more
cooler and gives you the facility of fading between images this tutorial will
show you exactly how to
do this.
first things first we need to create a new document depending on the size of
your text or
pictures your using the sample movie above is 200x100 but it really depends
on the size of the image or text
you will be creating the above movie
1. create a new movie and change the size to 200x100 and enter the text Typhoon Extensions or whatever you like.
depending on the last movie
you made will depend on the colour it doesnt matter what colour it is as long
as it isnt white.
2. Click on the text so it gets a blue box around it make sure u are on the
arrow tool. Then Right click
on the text and click convert to symbol or press F8 Convert the text to a Movie
and press ok
3.A Small circle should appear now in the centre of your text that will be the
sign of the conversion to symbol
of actually working
4. Now right click on the movie clip and click on properties you should see
a panel appear and at the
bottom right you will see a colour section click the drop down menu and choose
alpha to the right
of the menu a percentage bar will appear drag this down to 0% this will make
your text invisible.
5. insert a keyframe at about 30 frames in and right click on the clip again
and go to properties, back down to alpha
but this time change the alpha to 100% then exit the properties panel, highlight
the layer and right click and press create
motion tween this will add a coloured arrow into the timeline press Ctrl+enter
to view the movie
6. If you want your text to fade back out like the sample then insert another keyframe at about 50 and change the alpha again to 0%
7. This is an Important One A guy had trouble with the tutorial and he figured out that you cannot fade text which starts with a "_" which basically is _sans and _serif and any others so remember that thanks to Jeff for realising.
There you have created some groovy fading text
-Tom
http://www.typhoon-extensions.cjb.net