Re: FLASH: Re: Stupid Photoshop Question, Smart Flash Answer

[John Dowdell]

At 1:55 PM 3/26/0, Daniel Brown, professional Adobe Evangelist, wrote:

>> Subject: Re: FLASH: Stupid Photoshop Question, Smart Flash Answer

>>

>> At 6:59 AM 3/24/0, Vega, Eric wrote:

>>> I've done this before, but for the life of me can't remember how

>>> to now. The end result I want is a rectangle with rounded corners.

>>> I've got the rectangle, but can't remember how to round off the corners.

>>

>> Considering this is a Flash mailing list, there's a faster solution: Just

>> make the rounded rect in Flash, and paste it into Photoshop. You can choose

>> the rounding before drawing from the Tool Panel.

>

>Well, yeah, but that wasn't the question. The question was how to do it in

>Photoshop.


No, he didn't say "Can I do this in Photoshop?" You can confirm this by

looking at what you quoted. The request was to draw a rounded-rect in PS. I

notice you didn't object to all the people advising Eric to buy Illustrator

to draw a rectangle.... ;-)


There's an interesting question of "Why can't you draw things in

Photoshop?", which is due to its lineage as a photo-processor rather than

as a general design tool. But I didn't go there until you tried to lecture

me.




>> (Please don't bring that pixel-y rectangle back into Flash, though... it's

>> possible, but those fixes-res bitmaps aren't really as keen as a resizable

>> vector rectangle!)

>

>At times, it's very necessary to bring a "pixel-y" rectangle back into the

>swf authoring tool if that rectangle holds an image.


Well, if it's a photograph, then you don't need a solidcolor rounded-rect

then, do you? The question then becomes "How can I select a rounded-rect in

a photo in Photoshop?"


And if you *want* to put a photo in a rounded-rect frame, then you can do

that right in Flash... make a new masking layer and draw the rectangle

there. No need to shuffle around through various expensive tools... you can

make a fat pixel-based SWF natively if you prefer.


There's still no reason to object to my original "pixel-based rectangles

aren't as keen as vector-based rectangles", though.



jd








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