Re: Flash4 Wishes

[David Gary]

John Croteau wrote:


> Hi all,

>

> > Man O man if only Flash3 and PhotoShop where integrated!

>

> Has anyone noticed the Flash is a vector animation program?


more and more everyday.


> That designing in Photoshop or any other Bitmap program is not even

> close to a good idea when the output is for Flash?


Hiya John,


My personal comments towards intergrading Flash and PS, evidently where

taken wrong if this post was somewhat in reply to my Flash4 wishes.

I was suggesting that Flash's graphics editor be more dynamic in that

it tryed to mimic photoshop instead of try to "copy" its creation

capabilities in a certain

format.

I believe an "airbrush" tool would be possible in Flash4, but only using the

ability

to create gradients with more freedom than the existing  "radial and linear"

options.

I can somewhat simulate this effect by tracing an outline and painstakingly

use the "fill" tool to get the gradients

to line up. Its a difficult task but doesnt have to be even in creating

vectors, enter: "wish"

It is possible to give more freedom with vector gradients.

Why do you think so many sites are "squares" and "circles"?

Because people are trying to keep the file size small and creating with

vector.


Ill be the last to say , Flash needs to be a jpg or bmp editor. Im simply

saying that more

dynamic tools can be added to Flash's authoring enviroment to create vectors.


What about a convertor that takes a bmp or jpg image(not neccessary a photo)

and converts it using Flash's gradient

ability(vector)? You could then discard the bmp or jpg. It would look

different to an extent

of course, but you would save much more time in trying to manually create it

with just a "fill" option

and linear or radial options.


I find if I can get away from importing an image, bmp or jpg, I will because

they look crappy

and grainy when trying to keep file size down on export. Because of this I

find myself working hours on

end trying to mimic or trace certain images that I could easily import and

use as jpg, because the vector

looks much sharper and keeps the files size small.



> That features that work well in Photoshop are not necessarily suited to

> Flash?


I personally never said they were. Of course other people replied to my post.


> Even if you design Flash for Intranets, require computers with at least

> at 200Mhz processors and 128 Meg of memory; designing in Photoshop leads

> to bloated and slow creations.


Agreed. Vector , vector, vector!


>

>

> Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of good uses for bitmaps in Flash

> and Photoshop is a good tool for preparing bitmaps for use in Flash.

> Many items should not be converted to vectors and should be imported as

> bitmaps (not in jpeg format though). If you need to display photos of


> fashion models obviously they should be imported as bitmaps.


Photos are a totally different area. I simply would like to see a way of

shading

or adding a gradient to something besides a box or circle.


> But TEXT, I


> can't see any normal reason to import any text into Flash in a bitmap

> format unless it is there for alignment.


I can. Blurred text that is. Again since flash3 only gradient fills squares

andcircles you cant get a relealistic "shadow" for text.


> If you want phat Flash creations and not fat ones, you MUST think and

> design in vector terms, adding bitmaps only when they are suitable.


Absolutely!


>

>

> My suggestion to MM is to concentrate on Flash's strength and improve

> the heart of Flash and give us more vector oriented tools inside of

> Flash.

>


And so was mine.


Thanks for discussing the topic John,


-DG-



------------------------------------------------------------------------

To UNSUBSCRIBE send: unsubscribe flasher in the body of an

email to

list-managershocker [dot] com

.  Problems to:

ownershocker [dot] com

N.B. Email address must be the same as the one you used to subscribe.

For info on digest mode send: info flasher to

list-managershocker [dot] com