Flash to make fluorescent text effects

The implementation of this example is a fluorescent text effect, in the production process mainly using a gradient fill and other tools, through simple tools to create a beautiful text effects. The difficulty lies in the use of graphics, color editing techniques and filler tools. By softening the text border, the fluorescent text with neon effect is produced. The final playback effect as shown in Figure 1, to achieve this effect, the specific production process is as follows:

Figure 1

1. Create a new movie, set its size to 480pxx150px in the property panel, and select a color (this example is #000099) as the background color.

2. Select the Text tool from the Toolbox, set the font type to VLADIMIRSCRD in the property panel, set the font size to 100, and enter "Flashghost" on the stage. Select the arrow tool in the toolbar to move the text to the middle of the workspace. Press the "Ctrl+b" key on the keyboard to break the text. Effect as shown in Figure 2

Figure 2 Separating text

3. Select the tool bar ink bottle tool, the ink bottle tool parameter bar line color set to bright yellow, line width set to 1.0, move the mouse to the workspace, the mouse cursor will become the ink bottle shape, click the mouse in turn text border, text will appear around the bright yellow border. The effect is as shown in Figure 3:

Figure 3 is a text stroke

2. Delete the fill area by pressing Delete, as shown in Figure 4:

Figure 4 Removing the altar area

4. Select the arrow tool in the toolbar, hold down the SHIFT key on the keyboard, double-click the bright yellow border outside each letter, select all of them, choose the menu "modify/shape/convert line to expand" menu command, and the yellow border is converted to a padded area.

5. Select the menu "Modify/shape/soften fill edge", and then set the "Soft Fill edge" dialog as shown in Figure 5, and click "OK" button to close the dialog box.

Figure 5

6. Select the arrow tool in the toolbar, click in the blank space of the workspace, and deselect the text border. At this point, you can see the bright yellow line on both sides of the blur gradient, save the work, press "Ctrl+enter" preview the final effect, you can see the beautiful fluorescent text effect.