© S Hall 2009

HOW TO CREATE A BASIC TEXT EFFECT TO YOUR PRESENTATION USING FLASH

  1. OPEN UP FLASH
  2. RIGHT CLICK THE TASK PANE AND SELECT DOCUMENT PROPERTIES

THE FOLLOWING DIALOGUE BOX WILL APPEAR:

  • SELECT BACKGROUND COLOUR AND CHANGE IT TO COLOUR OF YOUR CHOICE
  • SELECT FRAME RATE AND CHANGE IT TO 30
  • SELECT RULER UNITS AND CHANGE IT TO CM

THE DOCUMENT DIALOGUE BOX WILL LOOK LIKE THIS

SELECT OK YOU WILL NOTICE THAT YOUR TASK PANE IS COLOURED THE COLOUR YOU SELECTED

SELECT THE TEXT TOOL ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE –IT IS THE CAPITAL A

Type in :

OCR NATIONALS UNIT 4 –LIVE MUSIC EVENT

YOUR TASK PANE SHOULD LOOK LIKE THIS:

Now we are going to add another layer to our animation.We do this by selecting the add new layer icon

Rename the two layers:

Double Left click layer 1 and rename text,Double left click layer 2 and rename it Effect.Your layers should now look like this

Select the effect layer by left clicking and highlighting it.This is most IMPORTANT

You are now going to add an effect to the text so you need to do it on a separate layer

On the toolbar on the left hand side of your task pane select the rectangle tool

It will now look like this:

The next stage is tochange the colour style to linear.To do this select the colour mixer on the top right of your screen it looks like this:

Select the pointer.You will notice that once it has been selected you can then select the colour that it will produce on the gradient line

If you can remember back we created an effect layer ,in which we drew a black rectangle over the text

What we are going to do now is change the solid black colour over for the new stripy effect .To do this

Select the selection tool that looks like this.

To apply the new stripy effect to your highlighted area select

What will happen then is that the selected area as above will be shaded in the same way as your stripy colour.It will now look like this:

**make sure that at all times you have selected the effect layer **

What we are now going to do is to alter the direction of the stripe.To do select the fill transform tool

Then left click the rectangle and selection dots appear around its perimeter.

In the top left hand corner of the rectangle when you move your mouse over it asmall circle appears.This indicates that you can rotate the selected image around.

Now we need to add a mask to the text layer

Go back to your task pane.select the text layer by left clicking it once.

Your layers appearance will have changed to this:

Once you have done this select the padlocks to lock the content of both layers ,then to view your animation press enter.

You need to export your animation as a SWF file.

This will then prompt you for saving it –type in OCR Nationals Unit 4 live music project,and designate your movies folder in your work area.Then select ok to export it as a swf file.You will then see a swf movie you have created in your work areaYou can them import this animation you have created using flash.

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