MAKE SPOTLIGHT ON CITY IN THE NIGHT USING FLASH

Now, we want to make spotlight on city in the night.

We will use FLASH to complete this tutorial.
The example is like this:

The spotlight will cover the city building, shine on the dark...so make the city live. Let's start to learn the tutor now


Step 1
Make new document on Flash
















Step 2
This is the work field we will be use

Step 3
Click rectangle tool on toolbox and change fill color and stroke color into black













Step 4
Minimize the work field using ctrl and - (hold together)
Make the rectangle fill all the work field (drag it to make rectangle)










Step 5
Make new layer











Step 6
Activate brush tool, change color into white and change the brush size and brush shape




















Step 7
Make sure activate the new layer (in mine is layer 3), and using brush tool draw the city like the example below
















Step 8
-Make new layer again and named it layer 4 (double click on the text beside layer to change the name)
-Activate oval tool

















Step 9
Draw oval tool outside left beside the work field on layer 4 (new layer we created before)















Step 10
-on the frame number 25 (look at the image), hold left click and drag till the 3 frame vertically selected
-Then, while the frame selected, right click and select insert frame.















Step 11
If step 10 done correctly, the timeline will look like this (notes: the frame allocated in timeline, based on second, the number above frame)








Step 12
-Activate selection tool
-Now on the frame 13 (between 10 and 15), left click then right click and select insert key frame
note: key frame used to make the different frame from before, different frame can use to make different image.















Step 13
Then make key frame again like in step 12, but now make key frame on frame 25









Step 14
Activate layer 4 and choose frame 13 (first keyframe), then using move tool, move the circle to the workfield by hold left click and drag it, like in the example below.

















Step 15
Just like in step 14, now in frame 25 layer 4, move again the circle to left side of workfield.















Step 16
-on layer 4, hold left click and select frame 1 till frame 25 to select it. Then, right click and select create motion tween.
-It will look like the example















Step 17
Now, let's give it a try, control-test movie













Step 18
It will look like the white circle moving through the city

















Step 19
Close the movie, then click layer 4, then right click and select mask
note :make sure the exact position, layer 4(top),layer3(middle),layer2(bottom)
if not, it will not work correctly.


















Step 20
if you did step 1-19 correctly, it should like this









Step 21
Test it again, control-test movie

















Step 22
To export itu, u can use many different file types, but for now i used gif.
file- export movie- select file type (gif)















This will look like this:



Enjoy, and use your creativity to improve this trick!