Sparkle effect

[zxk105]

How can I create a sparkle effect with Flash? What I mean by that is how can I make it look as if light just reflected off of my letters and they "flashed" at you. I hope you'll know what I mean. Thanks...

[Harry]

Please explain more clearly. Do you have clip you could show us?

[zxk105]

Alright I'll try and explain it better. Lets take your name for example -> HARRY. So what I want to do is take one letter at a time, starting with 'H', and make it look as if sunlight is reflected off of it. Make the letter "shiny" and then the next one and the next one. You see this stuff all the time on TV and you don't even notice it b/c it looks professional.

I can't find a good example online right now. But you can take a look at this intro [iedge.com.au] maybe. Let the intro run and when the logo appears you will see two "sparkle" effects and you will know what I mean. I hope this helps.....

[Asbillszit]

What you want to do is called masking. I think you can find a tutorial at kirupa dot com on how to do it. If you cant find it there I will tell you how to do it in detail

[rocknbil]

Here's one way. :D

three layers:
mask
glow
type

Type is your base colored type. Mask is a mask outline of the type, masking layer glow.

Glow is your . . . glow. Paint a blend or star-glow in it. If you get into it enough, you can even animate the glow itself so it rotates or changes size as it moves across the letters.

Which gives away the trick, create a tween that moves the "glow" across the letters, which is masked by the mask later. The effect will be that the glow is shining across the letters.

Another approach might be to create the animated rotating glow in a movie clip, then drop the animated version into the glow layer and combine it with other effects for a fairly random-looking effect.