# Guide Layer & Mask

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/guide-layer-mask/208634>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [November 30, 2006, 6:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/guide-layer-mask/208634 "2006-11-30T18:49:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![absolutezero342](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@absolutezero342](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/absolutezero342)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 6:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/guide-layer-mask/208634/1 "2006-11-30T18:49:49Z")

</div>

Does anyone know if you can take a shape and give it a motion path (using a guide layer) and also make that layer a mask so you can see through the moving shape?