Creating Reflections in SWiSH

Posted by Design Instructor | Posted in Flash | Posted on 20-02-2010

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Step 1. At first you should open SWiSH and after that you need to create a block of text roughly the same size and color.
Step 2. Now you need to copy and paste the block of text once.
Then you should move it so its positioned under the first block.
Step 3. Right click on the copied block of text.
In the menu that appears you should select ‘transform’ and then you can select ‘flip vertical’ from the menu that opens.
It should look like this:
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Step 4. After you should move the ‘upside down’ block of text so the letter points just touch, you can see it below:
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Step 5. You should use the resize tool to squash the ‘upside don’ t block of text a little, this will help with the effect.
Now you should have next result:
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Step 6. Right click on the ‘upside down’ block of text and then you should select ‘grouping’ from the menu that appears.
Then you need to select ‘Group as Shape’ from the menu that appears.
Now you can add a gradient to the text.
Step 7. Now you have a solid fill.
From the ‘fill’ menu select ‘linear gradient’.
Now you have next result:
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Now you need to change the direction of the gradient fill but at first you should edit the colors.
Step 8. Your linear gradient tool bar look like this:
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Now you should set the left-hand color to the color of the main block of text.
After that you should set the right-hand color to 0% White.
Step 9. Then you should make sure you still have the ‘upside down’ block of text selected.
After that you need to click the ‘Fill Transform” button on the ‘layout’ toolbar (  ).
Step 10. The red dots surrounding the text will be replaced by blue ones.
Now you can resize and after that you can rotate the gradient-fill until you are left with something like this:
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Finished!
Just fine-touch it and perhaps group the two text blocks to keep your workspace tidy.

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