How do I...

[Chris Morris]

I have a graphic that I have drawn free-hand. It is an outline of a palm tree. I would like to make it look like it is made of neon, a neon sign if you will. I noticed that there is a neon filter, but it doesn't work as I would like.

I am a beginner when it comes to working with Elements, so you will have to hold my hand through this. Does anyone know how to do this? Is this possible with Elements? Have any examples?

Thanks in advance!

Chris

[Jodi Frye]

Chris, the problem is that fine lines really don't take to layer styles too well...they need pixels to show effect. You can try to thicken the lines of your palm tree. You can either do this manually with paintbrush or select the layer ( hold down control key and click on thumbnail in layers pallet) this will put marching ants around your tree then ..edit > stroke>enter pixel amount and color to make the lines thicker. Then try the neon layer style and then maybe an outer glow layer style. You may want to think about filling in the tree and this way the effects will work much better.

[Leen Koper]

The best way to show neon lights is when it is dark. Probably the best way to apply Jody 's advice is to invert your image before applying the neon filter.

Just a thought.

Leen

[vintage hawaiian webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Hi everyone, I'm a newbie~~~~
I'd like to add an email subscription box to my web, i know all this could be done with cold fusion by setting up couple pages like sub, unsub, newsletter and so on. But all I wanna do now is just a mask kinda thing, which simply copies the email address that the user enters, then has the browser itself do the background work, sends an email to me, with the subject like "SUBSCRIBE [USERNAME@EMAIL.COM] ", and maybe includes something in the email message. So all the user will see is a box, after he/she clicks submit the browser prompts a message that says request submitted successfully, and an OK button. Can anyone help me on this?
THANKS ALOT!

[Josh]

Do a search for the "formMail" script, or check your hosting provider,
as they may already have it installed. It should handle what you need,
though the background work is done on the server. Not sure why you
wanted that handled by the browser in the first place.

- Josh

[band_poo webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Ok everyone i'm new to flash 5 and i know how to save it and stuff but how do i get the HTML code to put on my website my friend said it go's in to a file but i don't know where it is plzzzzz help thinks