TUTORIAL ARTICLE

Intermediate

4 min

Using symbols and advanced layers

Use symbols and advanced layers to create a bokeh effect and get ready to animate.

What you learned:

  • Simulate a bokeh effect

  • Turn a graphic into a symbol

  • Benefits of using symbols

  • Benefits of movie clips

  • Benefits of buttons

  • Benefits of graphic symbols

  • Effects applied prior to converting to a symbol get removed

  • Bevel filter


23 July 2022

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