# Photoshop Shadow to Flash? **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [February 4, 2003, 11:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-shadow-to-flash/12803 "2003-02-04T23:02:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![damonc79](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@damonc79](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/damonc79)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2003, 11:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-shadow-to-flash/12803/1 "2003-02-04T23:02:36Z")
Hi everyone, I’m a new member here, and just starting to delve into flash more. I’ve been using it off and on for years, but never did any cool or noteworthy stuff with it, so that’s why I’m here, to learn :beam: Now, I’ve run into a problem … I have a file I’m working on in Photoshop, and I import it with a transparent background as a PSD into Flash … the image has a shadow on it, but when it gets to flash, the shadow turns into a white glow! Whats the problem? TIA ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2003, 11:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-shadow-to-flash/12803/2 "2003-02-04T23:09:04Z")
While in photoshop, save your file out as a png, by going to file \> save for web and there should be a drop down menu to your right. Saving it out as a png will retain the shadow you created and then just import the png into flash. Welcome to the forum by the way. =) EDIT: I put left when it should be on your right. :sure: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2003, 11:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-shadow-to-flash/12803/3 "2003-02-04T23:24:43Z")
Man, I love this forum already! Thanks a lot … worked perfectly. I never had a reason to care about PNGs, but now they have become useful :beam: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2003, 11:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-shadow-to-flash/12803/4 "2003-02-04T23:26:35Z")
after working with flash for awhile, you’ll realize that pngs will be your best friend. I’m glad it worked out for you. =) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 9:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-shadow-to-flash/12803/5 "2003-02-06T09:16:52Z")
Downside to .png’s is that they cost you more in kb’s. Something that I’ve found that’s way better is to import illustrator files…downside to that - you need to know illustrator. You can come fairly close to emulating most of the effects of photoshop in illustrator…the basic effects anyways. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 9:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-shadow-to-flash/12803/6 "2003-02-06T09:22:44Z")
They also cost you more in CPU resources if your image is going to be moving a lot (tweens, as, whatnot) The processing of the partial transparent areas gets ya. Depending on the size of course. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 6:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-shadow-to-flash/12803/7 "2003-02-06T18:14:02Z")
dang it, i was wondering why the flash seemed to be going kind of slow when i put it on my web server and tested it out … maybe i’ll try that tutorial around here on creating a shadow in flash. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 6:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-shadow-to-flash/12803/8 "2003-02-06T18:16:12Z")
Well it might be other things in your movie causing that. My footer uses 3 .png images with partial transparency, and they move… does it go slow for you? (it doesn’t for me) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 6:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-shadow-to-flash/12803/9 "2003-02-06T18:31:43Z")
your’s moves fine … looks really cool too, btw. my file is a much bigger than that though … ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 6:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-shadow-to-flash/12803/10 "2003-02-06T18:36:48Z")
slow movement could be attribute of your FPS…boost that up and see what happens. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 6:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-shadow-to-flash/12803/11 "2003-02-06T18:43:52Z")
I had the fps set to the standard 12, but when I played the timeline in flash, it dropped to like 4 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 6:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-shadow-to-flash/12803/12 "2003-02-06T18:56:09Z")
It will do that regardless…Up your fps to like 33 that is where I keep mine unless there is a specific reason to have slow motion ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 9:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-shadow-to-flash/12803/13 "2003-02-06T21:29:26Z")
I put the FPS at 33 … it still seems to be running sluggishly. I have posted my progress so far at this address [http://www.damoncollins.com/sa/](http://www.damoncollins.com/sa/) It has the main swf file, with the movie of the girls linked externally, as well as the little headphone movie linked externally (it will be a music player movie eventually), and the big gray button on there was just to test out some scene transitioning stuff i was messing with. Anyway, let me know if it seems slow to you. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 10:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-shadow-to-flash/12803/14 "2003-02-06T22:00:35Z")
Doesn’t seem slow at all to me. Maybe its your system… I run… 750Mhz AMD Duron 128Mb Ram And it runs fine on mine. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 10:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-shadow-to-flash/12803/15 "2003-02-06T22:11:14Z")
Does the black fade in of the background seem choppy? It just doesnt look very smooth to me ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 10:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-shadow-to-flash/12803/16 "2003-02-06T22:13:13Z")
Looks fine to me. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 10:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-shadow-to-flash/12803/17 "2003-02-06T22:30:52Z")
It seems okay to me. DId you optimize your bgrd Images??? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2003, 10:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-shadow-to-flash/12803/18 "2003-02-06T22:41:31Z")
Smooth for me… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2003, 5:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-shadow-to-flash/12803/19 "2003-02-07T05:34:13Z")
heh, I surely didnt optimize the background image! :o Thanks for bringing that to my attention, I totally forgot … just chopped the main swf from 192k to 28k :beam: > \*Originally posted by 3d-iva \* > \*\*It seems okay to me. DId you optimize your bgrd Images??? \*\* ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2003, 5:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/photoshop-shadow-to-flash/12803/20 "2003-02-07T05:37:17Z")
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