Ok, I am the newest member to flash. I just started last night and I am totally confused. I figured I would try something simple and follow one of Kirupa’s tutorials. I did the Follow Masks tutorial. I did that easy, no problem at all. Now I want to do that from scratch. I can make the background(black). I can put my text(orange) and I can add a circle(white). Then I hit f8 on the circle to make it a movie and do the instance thing and the start drag thing. I then mask the backgound layer. How come it doesnt follow my mouse or only show where the cirlce is? Hope you have a lot of patience. You would think Kirupa would show me since he lives down the street, but nooooo! He says he does not do personal help 
It is ok I forgive him. Anyways, if you can help a newbie I would be very appreciative. Thanks
making a mask is really simple, and i think u will get much more out of it if i just nudge u along, rather than giving you ‘step by step’ instructions to follow.
There just a few key points to rember:
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the text .ect allways goes on top.
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(lets use test as an example for now) it doesn’t matter what color the test is, because it will all ways be the color of the image/or what ever u put under it…
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Put the image on a second frame under the text frame.
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right click on the first layer go to mask
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vola, there u have it.
whoa, they look like ‘step by step’ instruction to me. I guess ur lucky this time heh =)
Arrgggggggg as i read on in ur message, i see u are trying to make it follow the cursor… Arg my bad heh… well make fresh post as to how to fix ur problem.
I shal return,
Mark
Note: i don’t blame Kirupa for not doing house calls, theres some really sick weirdos on the net. No offence to you, im sure ur a decent person. laterz
nah… kirupa’s just a busy guy… he’s got school n stuff.
If planshift can’t answer by morning, then I’ll see what I can do. There are a couple of different concepts behind the mask follow and I think Kirupa only covers one in his tutorial.
bump… (still getting to this)