# Advanced Line Masking?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/advanced-line-masking/89081>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [May 4, 2005, 8:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/advanced-line-masking/89081 "2005-05-04T20:52:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![jdd2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3be4f8/32.png) [@jdd2](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jdd2)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 8:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/advanced-line-masking/89081/1 "2005-05-04T20:52:21Z")

</div>

So I’m making a webpage intro that has three curved lines, all coming in one by one. The client also wants a “highlight” or “pulse” to run across the lines. I made a copy of the lines and created a mask so that a small white pulse would appear to go across each curved line. The problem is is that it looks like poo. The edges of the ‘pulse’ are sharp, and I cannot get them to actually look like a reflection of light. Is there any way of doing this with a gradient or something so that it actually looks like a light reflection? Thanks