How to: for current trends

[DariusMonsef]

Sorry this isn't a how to, but more of a request for tutorials on how-tos.

A few trends I would like to have a better idea of how to do.

Pattern Fills in Flash to create the overlays of patterns like lines or cris-crosses Exp. http://www.simplyinteractive.net/

Blur effect with flash. Is this done with images from photoshop or with flash? Exp. http://www.elementzoffoto.com the loading image.

Thanks

[Genova]

YES please! i would LOVE to see ways to do that- it'll be bloody awesome!

i'm ganna find mah baby...

[Yeldarb]

well i think the blur is a timeline effect (new in mx 2004 and exportable to regular mx swfs). and I can't see what you're talking about in the first one. I may do a tutorial on timeline effects, but it wont be this week 'cuz i have finals.

[DDD]

you can do that rather easily with 2 images a regular one and a blurred one. Just fade in the blurred and fade out the regular. It works better if you have a few blurred images each higher than the other. just fade out and fade in

[.soulty]

the patterns are just that, patterns, like creating pixel art, you can create some nice repeative pattern, zoom in a large to about 1600 and plot out some pixels . different plots make different pattern, after you are done, select all , go to edit , define pattern name it , then make a new layer, edit , fill and select pattern from list and pick the pattern you just created... thats about it

such as if you have a 2 by 2 px document

fill in the first pixel with a colour and the other with another constrast colour, then follow the steps above to get vertical scanlines..

;)


edit::: sorry the scanlines are suppose to be 2 H X 1 W px. for horizontal scanlines and 1 H X 2 W px for Vertical scanlines.