# How do you make a color fade out into nothing?

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**Created:** [May 21, 2002, 10:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-you-make-a-color-fade-out-into-nothing/1797 "2002-05-21T10:49:47Z")\
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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:** [May 21, 2002, 10:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-you-make-a-color-fade-out-into-nothing/1797/1 "2002-05-21T10:49:47Z")

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im pretty sure its possibal… ive seen it alot. how whould i make a color, like in a circle or something, be black in the center and start to fade out as it goes out farther?

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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:** [May 21, 2002, 2:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-you-make-a-color-fade-out-into-nothing/1797/2 "2002-05-21T14:31:09Z")

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When you choose the fill color, make a gradient fill. If you want the color to fade to [null] then pick your solid color at the first slider, then on the second color set your alpha setting to 0 (zero) That should make the fill go from a solid color in the center to a transparent fill around the edge. I hope that made sense to ya. =)

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Cheers!  
-Niann

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**Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 12:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-you-make-a-color-fade-out-into-nothing/1797/3 "2002-05-22T00:39:23Z")

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ooohh! i dont know why i never saw that! was this in flash 5? if it was, i guess i just didnt see it.

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**Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 9:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-you-make-a-color-fade-out-into-nothing/1797/4 "2002-05-22T21:57:31Z")

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no, alpha gradients are new

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**Post date:** [May 22, 2002, 10:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-you-make-a-color-fade-out-into-nothing/1797/5 "2002-05-22T22:31:34Z")

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alpha gradients? you could alpha gradient in Flash 5

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**Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 12:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-you-make-a-color-fade-out-into-nothing/1797/6 "2002-05-23T00:55:19Z")

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you could?! my god i dont know why i never saw that!

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**Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 3:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-you-make-a-color-fade-out-into-nothing/1797/7 "2002-05-23T03:02:13Z")

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do my tutorial “ray of light revisited” on [www.kirupa.com](http://www.kirupa.com). You’ll see on one of the last pages, images of both panels that you need open, and a brief description of the process.