Shadow effect

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Hello,

I need help in creating a shadow similar to the picture i’ve attached.

Its a print screen from FI, I’ll like to create the drop shadow gradient from fill -> transparency effect.

Can this be done in flash or photoshop?

Thank you

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What about in flash? Can this effect be acheive in flash?

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umm yeah kinda, but you really need an image editor to get it exactly like that.

basically if you’re doing it in flash, you just duplicate the logo, and then reduce the opacity of the object… i think newer flash versions have filters so you might be able to add the blur as well through flash.

but i don’t think there’s greyscale alpha yet, so it’s hard to do the gradual fade away (i.e how it gets darker as it goes away). One option is to make a gradient (white to black) in photoshop and then save it as a 2 color gif so it has to emulate the gradient that way (i forget what it’s called). then you can apply that as the mask, and it’ll KINDA look like its fading, but not so good.

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http://pixelfumes.blogspot.com/2005/09/flash-8-bitmapdata-image-reflection.html
shows a nice reflection effect using BitmapData class in flash. source file too!

if you’re going to use an image from photoshop as a gradient, i’d suggest using a png. gif format doesn’t have a real alpha channel.

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i don’t know what you mean by gifs not having a real alpha channel… you can use transparency for gifs, but it’s only black/white. It’s not a problem because you’re not even using the transparency from the file… the whole point of what i was explaining is that you use that image AS a mask to apply transparency to the other logo… he wanted to know if it could be done in flash with minimal PS input which is why you might do it this way.

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what i meant was, in gifs, you can define only 1 color as fully transparent, and with pngs you have an alpha channel which means you can have variable transparency of millions of colors. so in a png you can have pixels with any percentage of transparency. so if you are were going to make a mask image that faded from solid to transparent, a png would be smoother.