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Mouse Proximity Blur Tutorial

How to make a menu or icons with a proximity blur effect

A mouse proximity blur is an effect which means the amount of blur on the movie clip is dependent on the distance between the movie clip and the mouse cursor.

In this tutorial, I will take you through a very basic and easy tutorial on how to set up a simple iconic menu and walk you through the ActionScript (AS3) to add this effect on the menu. I first created the mouse proximity blur menu as an experiment in my last post here. This is what the finished product will look like:

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