Re: FLASH: Using bitmaps in Flash

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 06:17 PM 1/22/00 , you wrote:


>Pardon the ignorance of such a question, but what is the best way of

>importing an existing bitmap image into Flash? Is there a format which works

>better. All of my attempts (mainly with Jpegs) leave the imported image

>looking blocky (for want of a better word).


Flash4 can be set (in Export dialog) to preserve original jpeg compression, 

in which case your images should not suffer any. But my own experience is 

that Flash does a very good job of compressing bitmaps, so I usually opt to 

import images in .bmp format and then play with the Flash jpeg export 

quality setting to find the lowest acceptable quality. If you need to 

retain transparency of images in Flash using Windows, you should import gif 

or png.


Marc Hoffman


Poison Dart Frog Media: Specializing in Flash Animation and Digital Audio 

Production

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