Re: FLASH: Weird transparency problems

[Ian Smith]

I'm assuming that the artwork you are usig is cropped with a transparent

background, if this is not the case then this may not apply.  When I was

doing a project where I needed something other than the rectangular box

shape that the bitmaps seem to want to default to, I simply made the

artwork into a symbol or MC and within that symbol broke it apart and

selected the background with the magic wand tool and deleted it.  It can

help to save the image from your graphics editing program with a similar

background color to what is in your flash movie because there is some

dithering involved (if anyone has figured out how to save an image with no

dithering please let me know, if it's possible I'm sure it is something

simple)


Hope this helps

Ian

>We have some bitmapped art that needs to be transparent.  We tried exporting

>as Gif 89a from Photoshop with a transparent colour, but are getting some

>bizarre effects.  Originally, each piece of art was saved with its own

>adaptive palette, so I thought perhaps that was the problem, so I tried

>converting everything to 256 Mac system palette.  Instead of being purely

>transparent, the background colour is translucent and some random colour (on

>one piece it's green, another it's purple, another it's light green)...

>changing whether compression is JPG or PNG seems to have SOME effect, but

>the whole thing makes me rather nervous.  I get this right in Flash, and if

>I test the movie or publish it, I get varied strange effects.

>

>Is this a known issue?  Why is it happening?  What could I do with this

>artwork to get around it?

>

>Thanks!!

>

>Rebecca

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