# Masking With color?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masking-with-color/30495>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 9, 2003, 4:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masking-with-color/30495 "2003-09-09T16:44:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Madburner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@Madburner](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Madburner)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2003, 4:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masking-with-color/30495/1 "2003-09-09T16:44:16Z")

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I know how to mask in Mx but the one thing I haven’t figured out if it’s possible or not is if you can Create a mask with color that effects the object being masked. For example i found a simple tutorial here [http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash5/lightingmask.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash5/lightingmask.htm)

now you see how they have it a black and white gradient. And they change the alpha values, Well istead of being black and white, i tried to change the colors of the mask to see if the object would be affected. No change. I want the mask to be like bluish color thus affecting the color of the text that is being masked.

Is this possible?