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Creating a Cut-Out Effect for Bitmaps Adobe Flash / Special Effects
I've been trying to figure out how people do this effect in their Flash movies for a long time. When I finally got it, I bounced my head off of the floor for a few days. It's so simple that it only requires two pieces:
1. An image (preferably a bitmap because Flash compresses it better than jpegs or gif images.
2. A vector to trace the shape you want removed.