# Any way to invert masking effect?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/any-way-to-invert-masking-effect/176457>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [January 24, 2006, 10:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/any-way-to-invert-masking-effect/176457 "2006-01-24T10:28:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Clark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Clark](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Clark)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 10:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/any-way-to-invert-masking-effect/176457/1 "2006-01-24T10:28:27Z")

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The inverse masking of Flash is doing my nut. Is there a way to make it work the way you’d logically expect?