I did a quick search and didn’t really find anything. If you look at my footer, you’ll notice that the images aren’t very crisp. The logo for my company was done in Illustrator and imported into Flash as a .swf, and the two back drops were done in Photoshop. I tried saving as bitmaps and also tried .png (I know not many of you are fond of that format, but I’ve gotten good results with it before).
My basic question is if there’s a format that works consistently in retaining the image quality, regardless of the scale of the movie (or at least when you make the movie smaller than the original. ) I designed those backdrops for the size they are displayed at, yet I still get some random pixelation.
HELP!!
–EP
P.S. Next time I will do the text directly from Flash instead of Photoshop. I’ve read that tut about legible text, and it’s good stuff.
ok take the bitmap that you imported to flash as a .jpg or .ping or whatever, not an SWF! ok when you have the image selected and on stage go to Modify|Trace Bitmap. when the box comes up for Colour Threshold enter 1 and for Min area enter 1. then select Curve to pixels and Coner Threshold to Normal. now you have an image in flash, but it wont look any diff, but taht should make it but better quality.
Please keep in mind that will make the file size jump through the roof also if you have a slow cpu flash will crash. If you set the color threshold to like 500…man oh man…But that will work good for print graphics. Logos I alway do in vector (well normally) Using the pen tool or other vector other than that mdipi hit it on the head.
open up your fla, and hit F11 to open the library. Find your image, and right click on it, then choose properties. Uncheck “allow smoothing”, and uncheck “use imported jpeg data” then put a high number in the box. click ok, and then export the movie. compare the new swf, side by side with the old swf, and see if you can note any change. Also pay attention to file size. this is the method that i use, and i am always able to display clean graphics in flash, with a somewhat small file size…
the best thing to do is experiment with different numbers and settings, and find out which yields the best results.
) I designed those backdrops for the size they are displayed at, yet I still get some random pixelation.