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Creating Drop Shadow Text in Flash CS3

By Adrien-Luc Sanders, About.com

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Checking Knockout enables a pretty neat effect; the base text above the drop shadow instead becomes a cutout, erasing areas of the shadow that it overlaps to make them transparent.
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