How would I do a tracing animation?

I wanna take a png file and show a neon line trace the object. Can someone point me in the right tools are maybe a tutorial that would help me to achieve this?

A png file can be an image of anything. I don't know what a neon line trace is. I'm assuming that you have some kind of an image and you want to trace around the image with an outline that looks like a neon tube light at night.
The trace can be accomplished with a mask path that has stroke applied. You can apply other filters to the stroke like Glow to make give it the glowing effect. I'd start with a black solid, place it above your image, set the blend mode to screen, then use the pen tool to draw your outline. Then add stroke, pick a color, animate the start or end point to animate the line, then experiment with adding glow or duplicating the layer and adding some blurs until you come up with the look you're after.
It's the same technique that would be used to create a light saber effect except you're using a stroke instead of a solid.

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If so you should NOT move the iphoto library to the TC and use it.
Apple says you will corrupt the library doing this.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS5168
Although mostly about FAT32 it adds network drives.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1198
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>I apologize for the newbie question, but I would like to
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>gif
> intro to a web page.
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Hi all ,
I am new and would like to create an arrow animation moving to show a path on my map.
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do I have to convert my image to gif first?
do you have any tutorial for this so please show me.
it would be better to be a step by step so I can better underestand each step.
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thanks for any help.
Regards

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Hi Flash forum members
Can you help me somebody: How can I repeat my flash animation (my frames) many times?
I will be looking forward to hearing from you,
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import javafx.animation.KeyFrame;
import javafx.animation.KeyValue;
import javafx.animation.PauseTransition;
import javafx.animation.SequentialTransition;
import javafx.animation.Timeline;
import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.beans.property.ObjectProperty;
import javafx.beans.property.SimpleObjectProperty;
import javafx.event.ActionEvent;
import javafx.event.EventHandler;
import javafx.scene.Group;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.layout.HBox;
import javafx.scene.paint.Color;
import javafx.scene.paint.Paint;
import javafx.scene.shape.Circle;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
import javafx.util.Duration;
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