# Rollover/Flashlight Blur Effect?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rollover-flashlight-blur-effect/271731>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 27, 2008, 2:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rollover-flashlight-blur-effect/271731 "2008-09-27T02:10:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![gennybeans](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ce73a5/32.png) [@gennybeans](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/gennybeans)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2008, 2:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rollover-flashlight-blur-effect/271731/1 "2008-09-27T02:10:45Z")

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i’m not quite sure if this is possible, but i’m hoping someone might be able to shed some light on this.

what i’m trying to do is sort of a combination of the rollover motion blur affect (i.e. [http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/38/1/Blur-transition-effect/Page1.html](http://www.actionscript.org/resources/articles/38/1/Blur-transition-effect/Page1.html)) and the flashlight effect (i.e. [http://www.flashadvisor.com/movie/display/37.html](http://www.flashadvisor.com/movie/display/37.html)).

so, if possible, what would happen is the entire image would be entirely blurred out by default (when the page loads), and as you rollover certain parts, only that specific part becomes clear/visible.

i was thinking maybe if i used a blurred image (instead of the black background) and then the flashlight would reveal the original image, would that work in the way that i want?

i’m not a huge flash user, so any advice or opinions on this would be greatly appreciated! thanks guys.