Re: FLASH: importing gradients from PS

[Daniel Brown]

>

From: jdowdellmacromedia [dot] com (John Dowdell)

> 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.


24-bit. Must be something else.


 

> 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.


Be careful with this since Fireworks can change type settings, layer

effects, layer masks, adjustment layers (or delete them entirely in some

cases). Much depends on what your original content consists of. I think John

is right though. Try a different file format. Using the Save for Web

function in Photoshop 5.5, you can export a JPEG as well.


 

> 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...?


Indeed. If you change color very slightly over a large distance, JPEG

artifacts alone will cause trouble.



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