Re: FLASH: jpeg Compression ? and Flash

[Jefferis]

On Sat, 04 Mar 2000 17:41:53 -0500, "Laura Mollett" 

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lmollettmindspring [dot] com

> wrote:


>Oh, I think you're always better off cropping or scaling images to the size

>you want before you import them to any program. If you bring in an image

>twice the size you need it, flash has to hold twice the information, and you

>don't gain anything from it (same as placing an image in Quark for example,

>or scaling it with html - you're just wasting space somewhere.) Flash

>doesn't scale an image any better than photoshop does.

>

>There's a difference between that and compression, which makes the file size

>smaller, not the image itself. The really big thing with compression is that

>you don't want to do it twice. If you compress once in whatever image

>editing program you're using (by exporting as a jpg), and then allow Flash

>to compress again when you output the swf, you're going to lose image

>quality.

>

>Laura


Thanks Laura.  The one problem I've found with cropping images however is 

that when you compose Flash movies for the standard 550x400px 

jpeg's and gifs start to look ragged in movies output to 100% browser 

size, if the browser is bigger than your 550x400...  I did notice however 

the effect is worse on a large Mac screen than on a Windows'  I am 

running Virtual PC and the resolution of the graphics seems better [jpeg 

and gifs] in Flash...



Jeff


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