# Help with ps and flash...!
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-ps-and-flash/19321
**Category:** design
**Created:** [April 26, 2003, 5:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-ps-and-flash/19321 "2003-04-26T17:47:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@OrionFire](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/OrionFire)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2003, 5:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-ps-and-flash/19321/1 "2003-04-26T17:47:51Z")
Hi!
I wonder how does ppl make those “lights” following a imported ps design?
e.g
A ps design of a railway track or road… then flash makes those lights following the road… making it as if a electrical volt pass through it…
PLs enlighten me…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2003, 5:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-ps-and-flash/19321/2 "2003-04-26T17:57:41Z")
i think that you would use motion tweens to make this effect.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2003, 6:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-ps-and-flash/19321/3 "2003-04-26T18:19:15Z")
yeah its usually done with motion tweens and masks.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2003, 6:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-ps-and-flash/19321/4 "2003-04-26T18:47:50Z")
hmmm… so this means that u can’t import the WHOLE design inside ?
U must break it up… before doing anything to it ?? SO that u can use it as a mask.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2003, 11:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-ps-and-flash/19321/5 "2003-04-26T23:50:15Z")
can you show an example? i am kinda confused…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2003, 2:47am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-ps-and-flash/19321/6 "2003-04-27T02:47:00Z")
what you need to do is get the picture done in PS or whatever proggie you use, then make the animation in flash. of course you can’t import the whole thing because PS isn’t capable of flash animation. So… if you were doing a light moving along a track, get the track pic, import to flash, then create (or import) the picture of the light, and tween it along the path 🙂
not sure what you’re saying about masks… the two things should be separate objects
Stuart
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2003, 3:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-ps-and-flash/19321/7 "2003-04-27T03:34:39Z")
> \*Originally posted by [mdipi.com](http://mdipi.com) \*
> \*\*can you show an example? i am kinda confused… \*\*
its what eg has on one of the pages on his site.🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2003, 6:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-ps-and-flash/19321/8 "2003-04-27T06:19:59Z")
> \*Originally posted by iLikePie \*
> \*\*what you need to do is get the picture done in PS or whatever proggie you use, then make the animation in flash. of course you can’t import the whole thing because PS isn’t capable of flash animation. So… if you were doing a light moving along a track, get the track pic, import to flash, then create (or import) the picture of the light, and tween it along the path 🙂
not sure what you’re saying about masks… the two things should be separate objects
Stuart \*\*
Hmmm… A e.g is this [2Advanced](http://www.2advanced.com/flashindex.htm) Go to the Portfolio page and look at the road… I wanna do something like that