tailieunhanh - Foundation Flash CS5 For Designers- P5

Foundation Flash CS5 For Designers- P5: Flash is one of the most engaging, innovative, and versatile technologies available-allowing the creation of anything from animated banners and simple cartoons to Rich Internet Applications, interactive videos, and dynamic user interfaces for web sites, kiosks, devices, or DVDs. The possibilities are endless, and now it just got better | SYMBOLS AND LIBRARIES 7. This time leave the values alone but select High as the Quality setting and select Inner shadow. The character takes on a bit of a 3D look to go with the shadow he is casting as shown in Figure 3-26. Figure 3-26. Apply an inner shadow to add some depth. Some filter facts Before we move on to applying a blend here are a few things you should know about adding and using filters You can apply multiple filters to an object. The character can for example have the Drop Shadow Glow and Bevel filters applied to it. If you need to remove one select the filter name and click the Trash icon in the Filters area. You cannot apply multiple instances of a filter to an object. You saw this in this exercise. Each movie clip has a Drop Shadow filter applied to it. Filters do result in a hit on the user s processor when the movie plays in the browser. Use them judiciously. Filters applied to layers in Photoshop will be visible in Flash but will not be editable in Flash when the image is imported into the Flash Library or to the stage. Alpha channel video in a movie clip can have filters applied to it. Filters can be applied to objects using ActionScript. 179 CHAPTER 3 Playing with blends The blend modes operate quite differently from the filters. If you are a Fireworks or Photoshop user you may already be familiar with the concept. In applications like those two such modes are commonly used to manipulate the colors of pixels to create new colors based on combinations with underlying pixels. The blend modes in Flash are as follows Normal No blend is applied and the selection isn t affected. Use this one to remove a blend. Layer This allows you to stack movie clips on top of each other with no effect upon their color. Darken This compares the foreground and background colors and keeps the darkest one. Multiply This multiplies the base color value by the blend color value and divides the result by 256. The result is inevitably a darker color. .