can someone tell me what is the best extension to use for inserting an image in Flaxh MX?
thanks
PNG. It has transparency, and you can edit them using Fireworks. That shows how close those are together. Just click it in the library, choose Edit with Fireworks, edit away, then hit the update button and it is automatically updated in Flash ! Is that cool or what :thumb: ?
PNGs are good but if you DON’T need them for transparency, use jpgs definitely -they can be dynamically loaded and are a much smaller filesize than PNGs
Voetsjoeba & mlkdesign,
hey guys thnx for taking to answer my questions, hope this wont be the last as I am new in Flash and will more questions. hehehe
thnx
Just a tip:
When using .jpg be sure there are not progressive, Flash cannot load progressive jpegs.
*Originally posted by keitai *
**Just a tip:
When using .jpg be sure there are not progressive, Flash cannot load progressive jpegs. **
what do you mean by a progressive jpegs? sorry im also new to photoshop, oh man, gotta learn a lot.
really appreciate your tip.
thanks
Progressive jpgs are jpgs that don’t load from top to bottom or from left to right, but from blurry to sharp. So when you see those in a browser, they will be blurry but they will grow sharper until the jpg is sharp.
Another tiny tip:
when using loadMovie(“your.jpg”) ie an external image.
Double check the path you reffering to. 
For transparent pics, I use pngs now, but I used gifs before and didn’t have a prob. Is there a difference between the two? Should gifs not be used?
the only difference i can think of right now is that for the .gif extension you must pay. Well nobody does it, but it has been an story on the net.
when Compuserve and Unisys announced they would begin charging royalties for the use of the GIF image format.
Got a link
*Originally posted by Freddythunder *
**For transparent pics, I use pngs now, but I used gifs before and didn’t have a prob. Is there a difference between the two? Should gifs not be used? **
Pay for the gif extension ?? No way 
! Anyways freddy - the big disadvantage of gif is that it can only have 256 colours, of which one is the transpareny.
I was always told that jpg’s were better for photos etc, and gif’s were better for compressing images with large areas of single colours, such as line art goes off to do test now…
Jpegs are definately the way to go for photos because of the file size of them compared to other formats (in my experience).
So, who would send me a bill for using gif? 
F - that!! That article said that it was a ‘long-forgotten scare’; is it still being thought of? That’s gonna be harder to catch than Napster, that’s for sure!!
Voetsjoeba - Isn’t it true that ‘web safe colors’ you only have the option of 256 colors? I’m not really sure what that is, but my colors are set like that on PS.
Yeah, you’ll see that when you set your colours in PS to web colours you’ll see that a lot of them are cut away. That’s because gif is used a lot on the web. This is done to prevent having to convert to 256 colours later and probably losing quality. If you make the image using 256 only from the beginning on, you won’t have to convert it, and you’ll be sure that the images’ colours stay the same. That’s why they call it web-safe.
Each format has its advantages in different sitations - most of which have already been mentioned.
As for the gif thing, that patent expired june 30th - it was from the LZW compression algorithm used in making .gif files; companies had to pay Unisys when including gif capabilities into their software etc.
… but thats nothing to worry about now.
keep in mind that PNG are way heavier in terms of size than gifs are, because what PNGs really are are JPG with transparent capabilities…
also, gif doesn’t support translucency, if that’s not mentioned b4
