Re: FLASH: Tracing Bitmaps.

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 06:18 PM 6/30/99 -0400, you wrote:

>I need to know what settting to set when i am tracing a bitmap to make it 

>look exactly like the original picture, right now, it comes out all fuzzy and 

>distorted, how do i make it trace it more crisply?


If you want it to look exactly like the original picture, you probably

should not trace it at all, since the tracing is going to be as large or

larger in file size as the original.


To get closer to the original, just use more points, many curves,  and

tighter curves. It takes experimentation. Doctoring the image in Photoshop

first may help Flash trace it better -- for instance, you may need to

adjust levels (contrast) to get Flash to recognize the most important

aspects of the image. For much better control, try Adobe Streamline but be

prepared for a learning curve.



Marc Hoffman

marcdartfrogmedia [dot] com (mailto:marcdartfrogmedia [dot] com)

Flash3 Portfolio: <http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/sampler>, featured 

in Flash 3 Web Animation, by Ken Milburn.


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