# How do make a large circle radiant?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-make-a-large-circle-radiant/7102>\
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**Created:** [October 23, 2002, 9:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-make-a-large-circle-radiant/7102 "2002-10-23T21:30:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![geestring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@geestring](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/geestring)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2002, 9:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-make-a-large-circle-radiant/7102/1 "2002-10-23T21:30:48Z")

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that looks like a spotlight. like the tutorial with the masking but i want the light to be see through

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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:** [October 24, 2002, 3:36am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-make-a-large-circle-radiant/7102/2 "2002-10-24T03:36:43Z")

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One way is to make the gradient in Fireworks/PS, with a tranparent gradient, save it as .png (retains transparancy), then import into Flash…

There are prob others… :-\

Rev:elderly: