Need help with flash and/or photoshop

programming flash
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I admit I am a newbie to flash…but here is what I am trying to do and maybe someone can point me in the right direction.

I want to use the cloud motion that is in the tutorial on this site, but i want to use it on a poster that was done in p hotoshop. the problem is…the clouds scroll OVER the persons face in the poster…I want them behind them.

I used the magnetic lasso in photoshop, cut out the person, figuring i can add it as a new layer to flash, bring it to the front, and have the clouds scrolling behind, but alas…not so easy.

When I try to paste in the figure in the poster, I get a white background even tho I selected a transparent one in photoshop…so basically i have the poster without the person, then the person in another layer, but with a white background.

I hope this makes sense.and maybe someone can offer a different solution. Thanks

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Hi there,

In order to get rid of the white background in the photoshop image you will have to break Ctrl+B the image in flash. Then using the selection tool select the white background and delete it. Thats it.

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I will try that.but I think I did already and it did not work… as the white background is actually part of the picture once its imported into flash… I will give it a try tho, maybe i screwed something up

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did not work.i dont even see a selection tool…I see a subset tool and I see a arrow tool…thats it

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Hi Mike,

Ok I don’t know what you did exactly but I will explain myself better…To delete the white space from the picture first break apart the picture by using Ctrl+B. Then with the select tool (which is just below the subselect tool in the shape of a lasso…thats the selection tool i was talking about) Click on the lasso and in the tool bar at the bottom there will be three tools…two magic wand tools and another lasso tool…select the first magic wand tool and click on the white space…and then press DELETE…it should work now…sorry for not explaining myself better the last time.

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export your image as a transparent gif or a transparent png then import it into flash thats what youre looking for

Grim

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another way to mask it is to create a mask channel in photoshop’s channels, select your area you want masked and then delete it–your channel should be a black and white image, with the black over the area you want showing (it’ll look red if you preview w. all color channels). save as a .psd and import it into flash–when it pops in it should only show the content that is masked…
-mojo