# Creating an Ice Effect in Flash MX
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-an-ice-effect-in-flash-mx/42074
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [February 4, 2004, 9:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-an-ice-effect-in-flash-mx/42074 "2004-02-04T21:16:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@talion78](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/talion78)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2004, 9:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-an-ice-effect-in-flash-mx/42074/1 "2004-02-04T21:16:09Z")
I’m trying to create the effect of ice to make a button.
I’ve made Ice effects in Photoshop, but cannot import the file into Flash MX with out it looking crap.
Is there a way I can creating authentic looking Ice in the program itself.
Cheers
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2004, 9:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-an-ice-effect-in-flash-mx/42074/2 "2004-02-04T21:43:09Z")
did you export in photoshop as a .jpg and selected maximum quality???
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2004, 9:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-an-ice-effect-in-flash-mx/42074/3 "2004-02-04T21:48:13Z")
Yep I’ve saved it as a jpeg, and then imported it into Flash MX but it becomes a little blurry, and it keeps the white background of the picture.
I can’t remove the background in Flash MX to just leave the button image…it’s frustrating
:red:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2004, 9:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-an-ice-effect-in-flash-mx/42074/4 "2004-02-04T21:51:35Z")
i dont know why it becomes blurry (maybe antialiasing???) but when you create a new document in photoshop select transparent background and voila!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2004, 9:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-an-ice-effect-in-flash-mx/42074/5 "2004-02-04T21:54:33Z")
I’ve been using Photoshop for years.
and that never dawned on me. I was expecting it to be more difficult than that.
Simplest things always work best cheers
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2004, 11:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-an-ice-effect-in-flash-mx/42074/6 "2004-02-04T23:23:26Z")
Use png’s! They work well with flash.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2004, 3:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-an-ice-effect-in-flash-mx/42074/7 "2004-02-05T03:00:02Z")
Yeah make it a png file. They use transparency if thats what you want. And they do look good in Flash. :thumb: