Re: FLASH: exporting Flash images

[Karin Christensen]

Hi JD,

The person I am in contact with is asking the art director.  All she

could tell me is that they need 300 dpi and at least 3 inches in size.

The final image is only going to be about an inch.  I exported an

image from a frame position in the edit movie mode and saved it as a

jpg at a resolution of 300.  Then I called that up in photoshop and

cropped out a small interesting portion.  I tried exporting as an

Illustrator file but that looks terrible.  I lost the alpha

transparencys and other things.  I hope they can use the jpg. I'll

know more tomorrow.

Karin


>It may be best to confirm the format with the publisher. I'd suppose

>they're thinking of CMYK TIFFs, but they'd usually give you the pixel

>dimensions they prefer, rather than just the number of pixels per

inch.

>

>(Rephrased, the DPI itself doesn't convey as much information as the

number

>of pixels, the colorspace, the format, and any color correction that

needs

>to be done.)

>

>It's possible to export a still from Flash as curves, and this is

usually

>done in the least-common-denominator .AI format. But a publisher may

not

>want small packages of PostScript, whether encapsulated or not,

floating

>around in their (XPress?) files... they may actually prefer a

pixel-based

>image, as they told you.

>

>If you have to go out as pixels, then it's pretty easy to resize the

window

>in the browser so that it gives about as many pixels as you wish and

then

>do a screen capture... this assures that you'll render at the desired

>dimensions, and wouldn't have the CMYK shift that happens with

Illustrator

>files. Could be a couple of ways to go here, though.

>

>Can you get more info from the publisher about exactly what format

they

>prefer, Karin...?




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