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Subject: Re: FLASH: importing gradients from PS
From: illogic
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 22:37:40 +0100

You might want to try importing the file into illustrator and useing the
flash plugin to export it out to SWF and import into flash.........
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Dowdell" <jdowdellatmacromedia [dot] com>
To: <flasheratchinwag [dot] com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 3:38 PM
Subject: Re: FLASH: importing gradients from PS


> At 1:05 PM 4/12/0, Jason & Merav wrote:
> > I have a high quality PSD file with a gradient. When I import it
> > into flash, it screws up the gradient. I have tried importing
> > the PSD as BMP and PICT without success.
>
> Well, a Photoshop file *can* be brought into a SWF animation, but it isn't
> always a very good fit... SWF is resolution-independent, and that
fixed-res
> bitmap may need to scale at realtime to fit.
>
> Last time I checked, Photoshop only supports 8-bit BMP export, so what
> you're seeing may be a result of pure color-reduction. Checking the
> export's appearance in another application could help.
>
> You might consider opening that PSD file in Fireworks first, and using its
> JPEG compression to drop the filesize down. You'll still have the
> resolution issues to deal with at runtime, of course, but Fireworks' JPEG
> compression won't add extra preview and header info like older tools can
> sometimes do.
>
> There could be other ways to get gradients to "not work" -- one common way
> is if a subtle color change needs to stretched across many pixels, or if
> there's a conversion to 16-bit colordepth somewhere in the process -- but
I
> do know that Photoshop's BMP exports would likely cause gradient banding
in
> and of itself. Does this info help get the job done there...?
>
> jd
>
>
>
>
>
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