I would like to know how I can create effects that I have seen against photographs or images. They appear to have a blur or gray transparent window that glides across the image using Flash. Then the image is fully displayed in color, after the bar passes. I only found a similar example below.
Exmaple 1: This site uses a frosted type of glass on the bottom portion of the banner image. The rest of the site appears to use different types of blurring and transparency effects on top of the images. http://www.westonfl.org/interface_fr.htm
Any help or guidance on ceating these effects would be appreciated.