# Help me please!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-me-please/17006>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 31, 2003, 10:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-me-please/17006 "2003-03-31T10:25:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![latallis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/df788c/32.png) [@latallis](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/latallis)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 10:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-me-please/17006/1 "2003-03-31T10:25:22Z")

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I’m completely new to Flash, and have just worked through several tutorials in the past week.

What I need to do is this. Create a movie of a smoke ring. The ring should slowly dissipate (appearing larger and more transparent as it does so), against a dark background.

Can anyone help me out with this, I would be so grateful for any advice (useful tutorials etc)!

many thanks

:bounce:

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 11:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-me-please/17006/2 "2003-03-31T11:25:52Z")

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You should probably do the tutorials that come with Flash regarding motion tweening. To make something get bigger and fade out would be done via that.