RE: FLASH: Imported png is STILL dithered in Movie

[Kathy Reddin]

Whew! Thanks for all the help!

Here's what I did to solve the dithering problem:

1) First I re-saved my embossed circle out of PhotoShop again and tested it

with different settings. PNG-24 Transparency was the best, but that didn't

fix the problem when I updated the imported file.

2) I checked to see if I was scaling the image down to a smaller size after

I imported it....BINGO! That was the problem.

3) I resized my image in PhotoShop and exported as a PNG-24 Transparency

again (it took several tries to get it the right size I needed).

4) I imported the resized PNG and created another layer to test it. In a

side by side comparison, the scaled version was dithered and the untouched

one looked great!


Thanks to everyone who helped! I'm a new member of the group and look

forward to all the great advise!


Thanks again!

Kathy


I'm just a sponge....here to soak up all the knowledge that gets spilled on

to the list.


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Subject: Re: FLASH: Imported png is STILL dithered in Movie



Kathy,


I haven't been following this thread, so if this duplicates previous

replies, I apologize.


I once spent the better part of the day trying to fix what appeared to be

bad dithering which appeared when I was proofing my flash in the player.


The player was scaling the movie slightly on playback and no amount of "View

at 100%" was appearing to fix it, nor was anyting I was doing in my .fla

affecting its appearance.


However, I hadn't published the file.


Once I published the file and viewed it in a browser it looked great.


c


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>

From: "Kathy Reddin" <kreddinpaymethods [dot] com>

>

To: <flasherchinwag [dot] com>

>Subject: RE: FLASH: Imported png is STILL dithered in Movie

>Date: Mon, Sep 11, 2000, 10:16 AM

>


> No, I'm not rotating it (but it might be ever so slightly scaled which I'm

> checking on now) and I'm running my movie quality set on High. Also, the

> movie is at 100%.

> Is there anything else that might make it look dithered?

> It is a transparent "circle" with embossing effects placed on it in

> PhotoShop. I'm saving it as a png file and have imported it into Flash and

> converted it to a symbol in order to fade it in.

> It looks great in flash, but when I export the movie it becomes dithered.

> One other png's that I imported in looks fine but another one is dithered

as

> well.

> Any more ideas?

> -Kathy

>

> -----------------------------------------

> Did you rotate the image in Flash?  I pulled my hair out on a project a

few

> months ago, where I was bringing a bitmap into Flash, rotating it, and it

> was dithering all over the place.  I rotated it first in Photoshop and

THEN

> imported it and, voila, no dither!

>

> I still have no hair, but the picture looks nice and purty.

>

> Hal

> -----------------------------------------

> Do you have Quality set to High in your Object/Embed tags (set in your

HTML

> Publish settings)? Or are you viewing the movie at something other than

100%

> so

> the bitmap is scaled? Check these things...from the sound of it I would

> imagine

> you're not viewing the movie at high quality.

> HTH,

> Randy

>

>>

>>> I've imported a "png" image into my Flash Movie saved from a PhotoShop

> file.

>>> Everything looks great until I export the movie. The imported image

looks

>>> dithered. The edges are not smooth.

>>> Is there something I'm missing?

>>


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