Image fade effect - distortion

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i’m building a site entirely in flash but all of my graphics are imported .jpg files. i’m using no vector whatsoever. basically what i’m doing is this. i have a button, that, when clicked, tell it’s targeted movie clip to start playing. the move clip houses one .jpg, which is text and it’s surrounding background. the clip is 20 frames long and set at 20fps. the first ten for the fade in, the second for the fade out, and a stop point in the middle. i’ve converted the .jpg to a graphic so i could adjust the alpha settings in the properties panel to control the fade. the movie clip loads over a larger background image. the clip is set in place so that the backround in the clip lines up with the main background. the effect is set up to make it look like the text is fading in, since that is the only part that is appearing to change, however, flash is distorting my image as it loads. nomatter how i realign the clip on the main stage it does not load aligned over the main background image. also, it seems as if flash is stretching or crunching the image as it fades in. i’ve turned off smoothing in all of the images properties control panels. do i need to load the image dynamically, fade them using actionscript, or just call it a day? thanks in advance for any help. timothy.

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Hey there Timothy, nice name. :stuck_out_tongue: I’ve had problems with flash distorting my images and what I did to solve the problem was give each of my image a transparent border or margin all around. So if you have an image that is 100x100 for example, adjust the canvas so that it’s now 120x120 for example so that the actual image is still 100x100, but it has a 10 pixel transparent border all around. I hope that works for you as it worked for me, good luck. =)

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THANK YOU! I was having the same problem :slight_smile:

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Here’s another common problem with images as well, sometimes when you have a lot of motion tweened objects that overlap each other, some images seem to jiggle. Here’s a thread for that solution as well.

http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10522

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thank you. i’ll test this later and let you know what comes of it.