Re: FLASH: screen captures

[David Gary]

Curtis Bay wrote:


> Hi DG,

>

> This only applies to screen captures or other bitmaps with large areas

> of flat color, not photos or images with lots of gradients and

> dithering. I just ran a test on an 8-bit 1024x768 screen capture, once

> with Lossless compression and once with JPEG compression at 100.

>

> The original file size was 786k.

> The JPEG compressed file was 272k.

> The lossless compressed file was 17k.

>


Hiya Curtis,


Okie dokie.


Ive had problems in the past with "banding" due to the way flash

exports jpg.

Flash has a horrible way of handling gradients and photo-realistic images.

Setting to "Lossless" is the only way to get a quality image in swf format.

However this has always

been at a price in size, usually tripling the image size in swf.


If large flat color areas are used I would always advise using Flash's

vector instead of bmp.


-DG-



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