How Do You Create A Glow Effect In Flash MX?
While versions of Flash from MX and lower don’t have an automatic outer glow effect, that doesn’t mean you can’t create one by clever manipulation of gradients, opacity, and layers. Select the shape that you want to apply the glow to. Copy the shape (menu Edit->Copy, PC shortcut Ctrl+C). Click the New Layer icon on the Layers panel to create a new layer above the current one. Use Paste in Place (menu Edit->Paste in Place, keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+V) to paste the copy of the shape onto the new layer directly on top of the old one. The new layer will be your visible shape, while the one underneath will be your glow. Lock the top layer to make sure that you won’t accidentally edit it while creating your glow. Select the copy of the shape on the layer underneath and use either the Transform panel or the Free Transform tool to scale the shape up so that the larger version is visible beyond the edges of the original. Usually the Transform panel is better, because by typing in scale perce
