Fireworks -> Flash = huge quality loss.. Is there a fix?

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Fireworks -> Flash = huge quality loss…

I’ve noticed that when doing anything in fireworks/photoshop and importing it to flash - the quality of the image takes a huge leap back to the stone age…

Is there anything I can do to combat the loss of morale within the ranks of my pixels? (chuckles)

When ever I import something into Flash I always import the *.png file. I’ve tried other methods (like saving the layers as bitmaps and importing them) but the quality is still sub-par.

-Kedaeus-

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Hmm… well the programs treat colors differently, but I’ve never had a problem w/ image quality loss. If you’re just running the movie on the fly it always plays at 50% quality by default. Save out your .swf and set it to 100% quality and when you play it from there on out it will show at 100% quality.

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If you have the image on a fraction of a pixel (like its location was 123.45) then images will look weird.

Also, I think you can share the clipboards from Flash to Fireworks and back, so that could be another solution.

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also check your export settings for images (labelled as jpegs) if that is low then it will look crazy. What I normally do is leave my flash optimize around 95% and let FW do the major portion of optimizing.