Photoshop Design ---> into Flex

[Zunskigraphics]

Whats best practice for this?

import png's to flash.. then flash swf's to flex?

just curious how everyone else does this.

[drkstr]

That is what my graphic designer does, but I personally dislike the practice. I am not sure what (if any) benefits there are to compiling your assets into a SWF before embedding them, other then "protecting" your work from being copied (but not really). As a developer who primarily uses Linux, I would much prefer to have the ability to edit any assets I need with Gimp or some other open source software. Since I do not have Flash CS3, I have to send it back to him whenever I need an adjustment. I'm curious to know what other people's take on it is.


Best Regards,
~Aaron

[Zunskigraphics]

Yeah, funny as this sounds, I've never worked in an environment where.. "he does this, and he does that"

I do it all.. i am the designer, i am the flash dude, and I am the flex guy.

My real issue on this subject stems from wondering....
how taking a vector image and giving it a .swf extension (keeps it vector) and applying that to say a canvas that can be resized --- vs. taking a photoshop png that can be resized but wouldn't be vector..and obviously they won't look the same in quality...

I am on the hunt for a way to overcome this.. mainly because I know photoshop pretty well.. but no so much with illustrator.

I hope everyone who uses flex responds to this.. great thoughts..