Importing Illustrator (.ai) files into Flash is reasonably simple provided you understand the limitations of Flash compared to Illustrator. In this tutorial I will be working with CS4. 1 – Preparing your .ai file Preparation is extremely important when importing from Illustrator to Flash. Here are a few guidelines: Be wary of blend modes (ie Multiply, Overlay) sometimes it will import them, sometimes it won't. On my old computer which…

Flash supports blend modes in a different way to Illustrator or Photoshop. To use styles such as mulitply or overlay there are two options which both involve movieclips. In this tutorial I show the simple code to apply blend modes to shapes with Actionscript 3 and with the properties box. If you already know how to set up a movieclip skip to step 4. 1 – Create a Flash file…