Using Layers

Layers are a transparent sheets placed over each other. Separated from the existing object. At the same time make orderly object over each other.

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Using Layers
Layers are simply transparent sheets that are placed on top of each other. These layers can be shuffled and moved around, added and deleted. Layers organise your movie and allow you to affect an object without affecting the rest of your movie.

What are layers in Macromedia Flash?
Learn a bit more about layers in Flash. With a small example you can see the effect layers have on how you see things in Flash.

Work with Layers
In Macromedia Flash Basic 8 and Macromedia Flash Professional 8, layers are analogous to transparent sheets of acetate stacked on top of each other. In the areas of a layer that don't contain content, you can see through to content in the layers below. Layers assist you in organizing content in your document. For example, you can keep background art on one layer and navigational buttons on another. Additionally, you can create and edit objects on one layer without affecting objects on another layer.

Using mask layers
This flash tutorial will demonstrate the use of mask layers. Mask layer reveal portions of the layer/layers below it. This effect is very simple but can be used to create lots of different mask effects.

Flash MX 2004 Layers and Animation Explained
This tutorial is for people who want to know the basic techniques of layers manipulation and animation creating.

Animated Masks
This tutorial shows you how to make a simple animated Mask in Flash. A Mask is an object which hides something. In Flash Masks are used with layers and they provide a simple way to selectively reveal portions of the Layer or Layers below. Masking requires making one Layer a Mask Layer and the Layers below it become only partly visible or masked.

Using Guide Layers
To learn to create and use Guide Layers in your Flash movies.

Utilizing guide layers
This is a tutorial on how to use guide layers in Macromedia Flash, because good flash presentations must consist of a balance of actionscript and timeline effects.

How To Make New Layers
In this tutorial you will learn make new layers.

Guide Layers
Guide layers are very useful when creating a professional movie. They help you ensure that everything is where it should be. You can use a grid and snap objects to it or you can create your own Guide layer. Notice the difference between the Guide layer and a normal layer:

Flash MX 2004 Layers and Animation Explained
Layers and Animation in Flash MX. Clear and easy to use, step-by-step guide for flash beginners.

Layers in FlashMX 2004
This tutorial will teach you how to work on layers using Flash MX 2004.If you are not yet through with motion tween, please go through Motion Tween Tutorial and come back here.

Working with Layers in Flash MX 2004
This tutorial will teach you how to work on layers using Flash MX 2004.If you still haven't finish motion tween. Please go through Motion Tween Tutorial and then get back here.

Layers in Flash
Everybody has seen sometimes how the sketchers of cartoons work. And all we've seen how they place a semitransparent leaf with drawings on others and the superposition of all composes the final drawing.

Creating Sound Control
This tutorial requires a basic knowledge of Flash. You must know how to create buttons, and work with Frames and Layers.

Pseudo 3D Orbiting Ball
This tutorial will lead you through the process to create an object that flies around text, a logo or object, anything you choose. There are 4 layers needed to create this effect.

Layer Folders
Learn how to use layer folders in Flash MX to organize your layers.

Creating Simple Buttons
This tutorial is designed for people who have little Experience of using Flash. The aim of the tutorial is to be able to create your own buttons, how to Align objects to the stage and create layers.

Text shadow effect
In this tutorial, we will show you how to create one very useful text effect with shadow ,without Action Script. You'll see how to use break apart and Distribute to Layers.

Creating Sound Control
This tutorial requires a basic knowledge of Flash. You must know how to create buttons, and work with Frames and Layers. For this tutorial, you will need a sound loop - you can find plenty all over then net, or do what I did and create your own.

Bouncing Text Effect
We're going to look at a very nice looking text effect. We'll be using a black font on a white background, nothing too fancy. The text will bounce up and down once we have finished. Like the effect? Let's make it. For this tutorial I assume you have some knowledge of Flash; the basics about keyframes, layers and such.

Creating Sound Effects
Creating effects with sound is easy in Flash. You can create stereo effects from mono files for example by placing the same sound file you wish to affect in proximity on separate layers.

Flash Buttons
This tutorial is designed for people who have little Experience of using Flash. The aim of the tutorial is to be able to create your own buttons, how to Align objects to the stage and create layers.

Flash MX. Part I. Getting Started: Making Nice Masking Effect and learning basic Flash procedures.
In this step-by-step tutorial, you will learn how to to work with layers, frames and keyframes, use radial gradient fill and alpha settings, use copy of the background and line tool to create precise mask, use guide layer in combination with mask layer.

Shape Morphing
Morphing is turning one shape into another over time. To achieve this in flash we tween shapes and its attributes like, size, location and colour of shapes between two keyframes. As a general rule its best to separate your shape-tweens with their own layers to keep things nice and simple. Flash can tween numerous shapes on one layer as demonstrated in the example below.

Flash and DHTML layers for IE
When I was creating a website I wanted to use flash and dhtml together in one page so I didn't need some anoying popup to display some databased or extern data. But It didn't work right away. Why? Because Flash is a plugin with ActiveX and it's always on top. Then I began looking for a solution on the internet and nobody could say how to do it right. On the macromedia site they gave me a sort of solution but it didn't work as I hoped it would, so i surfed the net over and over again but nobody could give a nice explained example how to do it so I wrote this javascript for you all.

Rollover & out button
First, create a new flash file with whatever you want. Make sure there is a blank scene before the stuff you want secured.Make 2 layers. Name the top one Submit, and the bottom one anything you want, I'll refer to it as Layer1 though. In the submit layer, make your button, just like any button, and perhaps with the word 'Submit' in it. Place the button a bit up from the bottom and slightly left of the center of the movie.

Draggable Mask
First of all you will need to create a movie clip, for arguments sake call it masker with an instance name of masker_mc. by default, I make my masks a circle but seeing as it a movie clip you can even make it a moving mask, to do this, go into the masker editer screen and make any movie or picture you want. After creating the movieclip create 2 more layers but make sure the layer with the mask is o top the layer with the thing you want to mask second and the thing you want to show on top (the "veil") third.

Fading Banner Slideshow
This Adobe Flash CS4 tutorial will teach you how to create a fade in and fade out banner slideshow for your websites. You will need to create seven images that will make up the slideshow images and import them into the Flash CS4 Library then add to the Flash animation document stage. You will then convert the images to symbols and create Motion Tweens for your individual image layers and adjust the Color Effect Alfa type at various point in the Timeline to create an image fade in and out effect.

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