Re: FLASH: Backgrounds

[Joseph Balderson]

Any bitmap you import augment the file size, though if you trace the bitmap (i.e.'vectorize' it)

your file size should be smaller than using a raw bitmap. Then I would, as previously mentioned,

convert to symbol.


Joseph


WWRD wrote:


>

On Sun, 29 Oct 2000 11:31:46 EST, NYCerinaol [dot] com wrote:

>

> >Hello-

> >Another question!

> >I know how to make the background a different color through picking a color

> >from the swatches...but what about if I want to have a bitmap in the

> >background of all the frames?  Or a design I drew in Flash?  Can this be done

> >so it doesn't really enlarge the file size?!  Thank you!

> >

>

> When I want to do that, I import the bitmap, turn it into a graphic

> symbol, put the symbol on its own layer and then lock that layer.

>

> I suppose you can do the same thing with any art that you create in

> Flash.

>

> That said, I'm not really sure of file size ramifications. :-)

>

> Leslie

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