How to fade in a photo

Question

Hi Everyone
I came across this site a few days ago, and I have been
trying to recreate it with no luck. Perhaps you could suggest how
it is done if you were to take a look. I think it is really neat!
I can change the alpha on a symbol to fade in a photo or a
graphic, but this goes much further than that. So any suggestions
or tutorials would be appreciated. I am using Macromedia Flash Pro
MX 2004.
Thanks,
Phil
Here is the site -
www.vispring.co.uk

Answer 1

Basically, as you know, you can have the blank picture on one
level and do a shape tween that starts with it having a completely
opaque Alpha and ends with a completely transparent alpha. The
white shape will gradually fade out leaving the image below.
But as you say this goes further.It goes from a total blur to
a sharp image. I think that the blur effect that comes with the
latest version of Flash has blur settings that can change over time
in a tween. Which would probably be exactly what you are looking
for.
The only other way I can think of to do a progressively
different blur in 2004, which is all I have, is to do it manually
in Photoshop to each frame. Part of the process can be automated
and the blur setting increased each time and saved. A sequence of
photos with consecutive numbers as the last part of the filename
(not the dot suffix) can be loaded into flash. The layer below the
transformation, the background, does not have to be included in the
portion made in PhotoShop.
I suspect that a portion of the final photo is whited out
during the start of the transformation.
NOTE: I would like for someone to verify that the blur
settings are (or are not) tweenable in Flash CS3.