# Transparency in PS CS to FLASH

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/transparency-in-ps-cs-to-flash/67823>\
**Category:** design\
**Created:** [October 19, 2004, 11:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/transparency-in-ps-cs-to-flash/67823 "2004-10-19T23:09:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![guinness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@guinness](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/guinness)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2004, 11:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/transparency-in-ps-cs-to-flash/67823/1 "2004-10-19T23:09:28Z")

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Hi all,

I’m currently creating a final project for a Maya 6 class and to make it more interactive I am going to combine it in Flash MX 2004 to use it to call movie clips and make a character I am modeling animate.

Anyways, I plan to have a scene where the screen is a desktop on a cpu and the character will appear on the desktop. The icons will be selectable to open up mock programs. I have made a mock desktop in PS and have imported some free OSX icons off of deviantArt using axilias to keep the transparency.

My question is should I use the image I made in PS icons and all as a background with invisible buttons over the icons or should I save all the icons individually and make buttons out of them once I import them to my fla?

-If individual then what is the best way to keep the nice gray transparency shadow? PNG is my best guess.

Thanks for responses and I will see if I can begin posting some sketeches and progress. I doubt it will be able to be but on a site because I estimate it will be relativley large. :cons: