# Trouble with loading external images and swfs into flash movie

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**Created:** [December 9, 2010, 4:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trouble-with-loading-external-images-and-swfs-into-flash-movie/317072 "2010-12-09T16:35:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![dobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@dobe](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/dobe)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2010, 4:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trouble-with-loading-external-images-and-swfs-into-flash-movie/317072/1 "2010-12-09T16:35:48Z")

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Hello all.

I’m putting together a flash portfolio of some of my graphic art and I’m having a problem with the loader. Each time I load a JPG, SWF, (or anything for that matter) Flash scales them up and out of their native resolution. The result is really bad looking images and animations. For example, when I load a 450 x 350 pixel swf into my portfolio and add it to the stage, Flash enlarges it by about 30% or so. Nonetheless, when I trace the loader.width of said swf, Flash tells me that it is 450 pixels - the correct size. Has anyone experienced this before? I’m really baffled!  
Thanks!

Dobe

(Flash CS5, AS3)