# Images...making them a graphic make smaller file size?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/images-making-them-a-graphic-make-smaller-file-size/172523
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [December 15, 2005, 3:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/images-making-them-a-graphic-make-smaller-file-size/172523 "2005-12-15T03:42:11Z")
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### Author: ![trainpixsnet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dc4da7/32.png) [@trainpixsnet](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/trainpixsnet)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2005, 3:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/images-making-them-a-graphic-make-smaller-file-size/172523/1 "2005-12-15T03:42:11Z")

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I am working on a mapping project. With all the images, my \*.swf file is large – currently at 11.8MB. I would like to make the file smaller, by making all the images a [symbol] graphic, would it decrease the project’s size?

Thanks!  
Nathan Chidester