RE: FLASH: Flash 4 graphic problem

[Cameron Hickey]

Tina


One method I have found to work extremely well in maintaining the quality of

a bitmap is to flatten the layers of a photoshop document, then select the

whole canvas and copy it to the clipboard.  Go into flash and create a new

layer and paste it there.  If you have transparency, this will not work, but

otherwise it is very effective.  


I have encountered this problem numerous times when using bitmaps in

flash...  What I find is that there are certain limitations in the way flash

can interpret them.  Because your picture no longer exists as a normal

bitmap, it can get distorted in any number of different ways.  The method I

use to handle this problem is to first check how the image looks at my

intended output resolution, not in the flash development interface (most of

the problems occur here, but not in the final output).  If I actually have a

problem with how the final version looks then, as dumb as it sounds, I

usually re-mangle it so that it looks good.  



Cameron



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