RE: FLASH: Flash and Transparent Images

[Ben Hemming]

aha!

Thanks to you john and the others who took the time to reply (hey marc I

_liked_ the birthday card :) I have since got it working, although in the

end it was cheaper (file size) to trace bitmap at a fairly high quality (30

colour value, 2 pixel).


I am glad that flash does support pngs (and gifs) properly if asked nicely

enough (I just wish we could all use png and jpg as the web standards.. oh

well another few months perhaps).


Thanks again,

(and a happy festive season to all)

Ben.


> Hi Ben,

>

> Flash suupports transparency for both PNG and GIFs.

> In PNG a complete Alpha channel is imported and retained so file size is

> increased (up to double the non-alphachannel version).

> GIFs only retain their transparency when imported in Flash if the

> transparent color is set at index 0. If the transparent color is set at

> a non-zero color index Flash does not recognize the transparency. Paint

> Shop Pro (and others) can show and allow you to change which color index

> position is set as the transparent color.

>

> > I'm currently in the process of ripping frames out of avis and

> anim gifs and

> > trying to move them into flash (via photoshop for some cleaning up, and

> > whatever other tools I need to rip the images from the

> avis/gifs to start

> > with)

> > The idea is that these frames (say 3 or 4 frames making up a little

> > animation)will then be combined with true flash animation on

> other layers

> > (for example a few frames of a person jiggling on a layer (from

> the images)

> > who will then be snared and pulled offscreen by a tenticle.

> Pretty simple

> > stuff, heres the problem:

> > the images do not trace (bitmap) well and thus I'd like to keep them as

> > bitmaps (saved as jpgs when flash exports them) however

> although flash does

> > support the importation of formats that support transparency/alpha

> > channeling (gif and png) it doesn't impliment it.

> > So all my images are simply inside big boxs of backdrop, dispite the

> > backdrop being invisible normally for those image formats.

> > Am I mistaken or is there no easy solution here.. am I simpluy

> going to have

> > to trace the images so I can have objects on other layers going

> behind the

> > complex (ie non rectangular) objects?

>

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