RE: FLASH: Would this effect file size?

[Dustin Krysak]

Thanks so much, for the very effective reply... I have been experimenting

with the tracing, and this is the first that actually explains some things

to me.


-Dustin Krysak-

Network Support

Beamscope, Vancouver



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Dustin,

	The way I would do it would be to keep the size at 800 by 600 but

first

open it in Photoshop and try different levels of posterize on it until I

found a setting that gave the best results for your purposes. The more

posterized the smaller the  final art traced in Flash will be. I would

then save it as .bmp or .pict and import it into Flash at that large

size and trace it. Once the trace has been done ( try a couple of

different setting to see which is best) click the view as outlines

square in the layer menu that contains your trace. If you have more

outlines than space see about changing your settings. If even that gives

you a too complex result, I would try a smaller version of your original

bitmap as imported and see if it has a smaller byte cost than the traced

image.

	Also, sometimes I have had good results editing the tracing by hand

and

combining some of the unnecessary chunks that Flash can create. It is a

trial and error process and a bit time consuming.


Dorian


Dustin Krysak wrote:

> 

> Hi... quick question about file sizes whith bmp and vectors...

> Say I have a bmp that is say 800 pixels by 600 pixels...

> 

> would it make a difference to say shrink the bmp down to say 100 X 200...

trace it (in flash) and then bring it back up to 800 X 600? AS opposed to

doing the direct trace over in flash at the full res of 800 X 600?

> 

> If I was in front of my pc that has flash, I would try it....

> 


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