Graphics?

[JHallam]

Hey guys, can anyone share you experiences, everytime I design a site in PS6 then import to Flash, it always always get destorted or looks so worse than the resolution etc in PS6.

I tried optimizing the images, and tracing them but still it doesn't make them as sharp as they should be!

Any tips etc please would be great!

What's the best format from PS?

Eps? JPG? etc etc should I just copy and paste or save every individual pic?

I need some real effective methods as this is for Uni project and I'm gonna be buggered! :mad:

[Tink]

i draw stuff straight in falsh and if i need to put pics in import them as jpegs.

although i'm sure i heard someone say in another thread that png was the best format???

BLEEDA

[JHallam]

is there anywhere on any site a tute or tips of images and importing?

Thanks

[JHallam]

Aha, I used PNG 24, and it made a hell of alot of difference!

But please if you have anymore recommendations, please post good info from all points f view!

[Rasta Gonzales]

Hi there,
as a new born member (no new member anymore - *hooray!:D
I can say this:

I do my designing of my flash site with PShop first, I still use 5.5 although 6.0 is on my mac. I like 5.5 more, hell I dont know why...:confused: I don't like the drawingtools within flash, maybe because I prefer specialized progs...

After the designing is done (that means after you really know what the site has to look like) I split the stuff:
things that can be done as vectors (lines, full-color-fields, simple drawings) I do with Illustrator/Freehand (I guess freehand is better since from illustrator flash displays wrong colors, and freehand is a macromedia product and should do it better?!:mad: )
I do bitmaps within pshop, but now there's the compression-problem:

JPGs always loose quality, even if you save them as "100%".
They are good for hi-detailed images with a lot of smooth color-gradients. If you can do compression at a 50-60%-level and less without too much loss of quality with such an image jpg can be your choice.

GIFs are best for bitmaps with a lot of plain color - no gradients or many colors at all, e.g. duplex-style backgrounds or so.
And don't forget these transparent-GIFS, saves you a lot of masking. I haven't tried animated gifs yet, if anyone can tell about these I'd appreciate (right spelling?).
One thing about gifs:
I don't know why, but if you use gifs you should apply 1pixel transparent border to it, because the border-pixels on top and left side of my gifs always dissapear when I import the gif into flash. Has anyone experienced the same problem?!
:confused:

Well, and unnecessary to say, vectors, if you import them into flash - I do it by saving them as 5.0 EPS.

I once was told that it would be best to let flash itself do the bitmap-compressing and import all bitmaps as .tifs or .bmp or such.

PNG?
Haven't used thid format yet. (shame to me!)
Anyone who can tell me something about it?

CHEERS ;)