Spotlight effect

I’ve been doing a lot of Flex / pure ActionScript programming recently, working with default controls a lot. Pretty boring stuff in terms of visuals, so I developed a need to create something flashy.

Like in good old days when I would spend my whole free time experimenting with Flash, I sat down and started playing on a timeline. My goal was to reproduce the Spotlight effect you get when you search your System Preferences. Since it’s hardly arguable that Apple is leading in the field of User Experience I decided I should simply copy the effect in my favourite tool

Below is the result of my messing around with blend modes and alphas. You can download the source FLA file as well. Hope you like it.