FIG or any flas "wizards" please HELP!

alright, i am pretty sure there is a way to accomplish this task:


(in photoshop)
i have a cool looking vibrant image about 500 by 500 pixels. If i flatten it down, then create a new layer on top of it and fill it with red about 100 pixels high, and 500 wide, then i set this layer mode to "color" and i drag it up and down it creates a cool effect.


now i want to do this same thign in flash!

This is what the original image looks like:
Original Image


This would be one of the frames in the flash movie:
Frame lets say 5 or something


This would be another frame somewhere in there (if i dragged it down more):
image 2



i know enough about flash to complete this but i dont know how to do it. can someone point me in the right direction, a website maybe?

PLEASE HELP!

Here's a simple way to do it:
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash5/dragmask2.asp

You'd have to constrict your drag to just being vertical though. There's also a whole section in the Drag Slide Fade book by Brendan Dawes on how to do this in a more advanced way.

Chris

i followed the tutorial, and when i use their images i can get it to work fine (the text and ball). but when i import the graphic that i showed you earlier, and i import a long red bar, i repeat the same process, and it doesnt work?!?!

that website u showed me is a good one, and i figured out how to do it with text, but i cant seem to do it with my own images!@

thanks in advance

-Brandon

Read it again.....carefully. By the way, your image is 217k big, too big for the size, don't optimise it that much, put the quality to 80 or even 70%, flash will take ages to load it otherwise....