Text Shadows

This tutorial assumes you have already completed tutorials one and three.

Create a new movie. Add a new 'Text' item to the library.

Change the content to Text Shadow. Set some properties for the text. In the example, the 'Color' is changed to red, 'Font Type' changed to 'Standard', the 'Standard Font' set to Impact and the 'Font Size' changed to 16. If you are exporting to HTML then you may want to choose 'Convert To Image' to make sure the font you choose is available on all computers.

Click the button next to the text once you are happy with the style and choose 'Duplicate'.

Duplicate

Drag the black text on to the editor or click 'Add To Timeline' from the library menu. Arrange the text in the middle of the editor so it can be seen clearly.

Duplicate the item in the timeline. This will make sure the two items have the same dimensions.

Duplicate

Swap the top item for the red text.

Click the dot for frame 0 of the black text.

Move the black text 2 pixels to the right and 2 pixels down. Either use the arrow keys or change the 'Location' values of the frame.

Finally change the 'Opacity' property of the frame to 50%.

Reflection

From this point it is also possible to create a reflection effect.

Right click the text and choose 'Flip Vertical'.

Move the black text under the red text.