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1 Select the Selection tool.
2 Select one of the robot movie clip instances on
the Stage.
3 In the Properties inspector, under the Display
section, notice that the Visible option is checked
by default, meaning that the instance is visible.
4 Deselect the Visible check box.
The selected instance becomes invisible.
The instance is present on the Stage, and you can
still move it to a new position, but the audience
won’t be able to see it. Use the Visible option
to turn instances on or off during the course of
your movie, rather than deleting them entirely.
You can also use the Visible option to position
invisible instances on the Stage in order to make
them visible later on with ActionScript, the coding
language of Flash.
Check the Visible option to make the robot visible on the Stage again.
blending effects
Blending refers to how the colors of an instance interact with the colors below it.
You saw how the instance in the flare layer had the Lighten option applied to it
(carried over from Photoshop), which integrated it more with the instance in the
Background layer.
There are many kinds of Blending options. Some have surprising results, depending
on the colors in the instance and the colors in the layers below it. Experiment with
all the options to understand how they work. The following figure shows some of the
Blending options and their effects on the robot instance over a blue-black gradient.
Normal
Darken
Lighten
Overlay
Hard Light
Add
Subtract
Difference
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