Re: FLASH: Imported png is STILL dithered in Movie

[Hal Medrano]

Hi Kathy,


I appreciate you posting the solution to your problem.  This is a nice way

to tie up a discussion thread.  It sounds like the "group mind" was able to

arrive at a production process that'll avoid this kind of problem for ALL of

us in the future.


Regards,


Hal


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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, 9:26 AM

>


> 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!


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