Re: FLASH: exporting Flash images

[Dorian Nisinson]

Hi Karin,

	Here is what I would do. 


1. In Flash chose the frame of the movie you want to use. 


2. Export the image as bmp on PC or pict on Mac. In the export dialogue

box choose resolution: 300 dpi, 24 bit color and Full document size.(

these are the PC/ .bmp choices, Mac may vary but the idea is the same.)

I would not use a screen capture under these circumstances.


3. Open in photoshop and do the conversion to CMYK there. If your client

is asking for 300 dpi they probably want a .tif file not Illustrator .ai

and I am pretty sure they don't want a jpeg which is a lossy file

format.

	Generally, the printers I have dealt with prefer to do the cmyk

conversion themselves and want to be sent rgb. They know more about

their printer and what works best for them. 


4. Do send a color print out of the original art with the file and try

to get the color printout to be as close to what you would like to see

as possible. 

	As this art is an illustration and not a corporate logo, color matching

of the most rigorous sort will probably not be needed. 

	Do ask their printer what kind of file he wants. I have always had good

results with tif files saved from photoshop.


	Hope this helps


Dorian



Karin Christensen wrote:

> 

> 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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