Exclusive Freebie: Ten Fab Filter Effects for Your Flash Textfields

If you enjoyed Muhammed Abid’s tutorial on glassifying your text with Flash filters, you’ll love this Exclusive Freebie from frequent author Carlos Yanez. It’s a set of ten such effects, ranging from gold to bubble gum, which you can easily copy and paste to apply to any text in any of your Flash projects.

The Final Results

Here’s what the ten different effects look like in action:

How To Use These Effects

Download the source zip file, extract it to your hard drive, and open TextFXPack.fla. You’ll see all of the effects available on the first frame of the timeline.

Click on the text (not the background) of the effect you wish to duplicate:

In the Properties panel, check out the Filter section:

Click the little clipboard icon, and press “Copy All”:

In your own Flash project (i.e., another FLA), select the text to which you’d like to apply the filter:

In the Filters section of the Properties panel, click the little clipboard again and select “Paste”:

Tada!