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Poor Images In Flash
Hey

I've imported several images for my flash document, saved as PNG 24 in photoshop. When editing the flash document ( in normal mode ) the images I've imported look just as they should, but when I hit ctrl + enter to test the movie, the quality for the PNG images are very poor, how can that be, and how can i solve the problem? I'm using flash MX and photoshop 7.0. I've made sure that the zoom is set to 100 % and I've never resized or edited the image after importing it to flash!

-Mikkel

Slide Viewer Images Poor Quality
I have created a basic slide viewer for showing a customer progress of design pages I am working on. Problem is that i am exporting the entire page from Freehand as bmp (The freehand page contains and images) and importing into the stage in flash. Quality is very poor when imported into Flash. Any ideas how I can improve the quality?

Help: Images In Dynamic T-field. Poor Text Wrapping
Hi yah, the problem is as follows.
I'm loading an image into a dynamic text field and I need the text to not wrap around the image. I tried making the images width as large as the text field, but it then it still not only wrapped around the text it was also sticking out of the text fields boundries and looked horrible.
Is there anyway to fix this? The only hack ive been able to come up with is to add a ton of breaks after the image, and thats pretty much sucks.
Any help greatly appreciated!

Poor Resolution When Importing Images In Flash Mx Loadshell
Here's my problem.. Whenever I load an image that I shrank using photohop into my Flash MX loadshell, there's a considerable loss in resolution. (see the following link for more details: http://trusoundcrew.com/hp2.htm ) simply click on the "mission" button for the image.

original image: http://trusoundcrew.com/cd_front.jpg

Thanks

Images Within Flash Site Are Getting Resized To Poor Quality - Advice Needed
Hi

I have a new Flash website. In it are about 20 thumbnails that, when clicked, open up into large ~750x600 images. The images contain some text on them. In Flash itself, the images open up properly and look great. But when the site is placed on the web (and the html code below is used), the images are resized to smaller, poorer quality and the text (on the images) is practically unreadable. I have tried the images as jpegs and pngs - both look crappy on the web.

I use the following html code to make the site fit peoples' various browser window sizes. This is what is causing my problem, because when I don't use this html code the images look fine. But, I NEED to use this code in order for the site to fit various browser windows.

HTML Code:
<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"
WIDTH="100%" HEIGHT="100%" id="index.swf">
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="index.swf">
<PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high>
<PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#FFFFFF>
<EMBED src="index.swf" quality=high bgcolor=#FFFFFF WIDTH="100%" HEIGHT="100%"
NAME="index.swf" ALIGN="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash"
PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">
</EMBED>
</OBJECT>
The Flash code that I am using to open and close the pics from thumbnails is this:

HTML Code:
on (release) {
openUp = _root.attachMovie("pic1", "pic1", 2);
openUp._x = Stage.width / 2 - (openUp._width/2);
openUp._y = Stage.height / 2 - (openUp._height/2);
openUp.onRelease = function() {
removeMovieClip(this);
};
}
So how can I make my site fit the browser window WITHOUT ruining my images in the process? How can I 1) keep the image sizes constant, or 2) let the images resize along with the rest of the site, but keep them in good quality?

Thanks for your advice!

Mx Cuts Off Images When Published - HELP
i've noticed this before, but it's actually become a problem in the piece i'm currently working on....

when i import a .bmp/.png/or .jpg into flash, all is well. however, when i publish the piece, mx is removing 1 pixel on the right and bottom sides of the image. like i said, it looks fine in dev mode, but when published those edges are lost.

anyone have any thoughts? i have the allow smoothing checkbox 'unmarked', but that didn't work.

thanks in advance - nords.

Images Deteriorate When Published :(
Ok, I created some flash and it was crisp in Flash MX but after I publish it and view it in IE, the graphics are all choppy. What is the deal? I have tried 80% image quality in the preferences and 100% quality and there was no difference. Any ideas? www.firesideroadhouse.com/baca/test.htm

Ok, i noticed if i free transform an image in flash and rotate it, the image becomes choppy. Is this common with flash? I have individual links that need to all move individually and was figuring that I could import one image of a link and just rotate it in flash to keep my file size down.
Will I have to import each individual link image to keep the images from becoming fuzzy?

Ugggg

Blochy Images When Published
i have inported some images into my movie from image ready, everything looks fine until i publish it and things gets blochy. how do i fix this?

Why Do Images Never Look Very Good When Published?
Hi,

When i import an image into flash like a png or a jpg, it always look great untill i publish the movie then it looks terrible. How can i keep the images looking crisp and clean like they did when layed out.

Images Getting Slightly Offset When Published
Whats up guys.

I have a movie in MX where I sliced up a bunch of images and I need them to fit right back in place (just like an html page). I lined up the images tediously and they look great in flash, just like in my photoshop file. When I publish the movie however all the images get slightly offset. Because they need to line up to the pixel, it completely ruins the integrity of the movie.

My publish settings are to NOT compress movie, and the jpeg quality is at 100%. I also changed all the images' properties to PNG after reading a recent thread but to no avail.

Check the attachments for screenshots of both cases. Notice the odd line at the top of the buttons, and the white lines seperating the pics are gone.

*Also notice that the text isn't as crisp, any ideas on that?

I will also add that in MX 2004 this isn't an issue...but I can't handle the "expert mode" so I was hoping to do it in MX 6.

Thanks guys, I'd really apreciate any help.

Suddenly My Images Look Pixelated When Published
Hi,

I have been using Flash 8 for a while and it's been fine, but suddenly and without explanation, imported images now pixelate in the published swf.

They look fine while editing the fla. I haven't knowingly changed anything, and I know my images are fine (they look fine on their own, I am resizing to the exact size I want them in the Flash doc using photoshop, not doing it within Flash).

The only settings I have changed since this happened is to improve the jpeg quality and toggle off the compress movie, but this didn't work, so I changed it back.

If anyone has any ideas about what this can be, I'd be really grateful.

Many thanks

Help Images Disappearing In Published Movie
Need a bit of help here. I built a simple but long presentation...inside a MC I have 3 layers containing:

- 30-40 minutes of sound set to streaming
- 42 static images keyframed to match audio
- actions layer with a stop() action in the last frame

Think glorified ppt presentation. This is pulled into the main movie which uses the pBar and loader components.

Everything works great and fine for most of it but once it gets to frame 1175, *poof* the images completely drop out and come back very sporadically towards the end. The total movie length is 2033 frames. Movie is set to 1fps.

I thought maybe it was dropping frames but the image sizes and audio are consistently the same and happens in the same place every time. This even happens when I watch it locally. Anyone have an idea why this may be happening? If it drops the keyframe with a missing image, would it not show anything until it encounters the next image keyframe?

Need help as I'm in a bit of crunchtime. If i had more time I would've cut the audio/images up into their own MCs and just done a loadMovie. If anyone has a quick fix, I'd really appreciate it.

Pete

Images Do NOT Look Good When Published In Flash
NOTES:
Image has not been resized

Image still looks bad when on enen X,Y coordinates

Image still looks bad in GIF, JPG, PNG formats

Image looks good when Im working with flash, and only looks bad when exported

JPG quality is set to 100

can someone help? thanks

Problem With Loading External Images When Published HTML
Hi,

I have a simple flash movie that loads with XML a bunch of images. When i export it, it works fine.

BUT

if I want the flash to be in a directory different from the HTML, then HTML will load the flash, but the flash won't load the images (considering that flash2image path has not changed)

Anyone has a clue with that problem?
Its a AS2 file created by Flash CS3.

Imported Images
i have a project with lots and lots of grunt work, and i wanted to know if there was an easier way to do it.

i have a file that scrolls about 50 logos of stores automatically. when the logos are imported, the scrolling mc is so long it goes past the viewable area of the flash work window. also each logo needs to be clickable to individual pages.

is there a way to bring in the logos dynamically or something? how would you do it?

help

Imported Images Goes ****ed Up
Hi,

When i import an image in my flash file (.jpg) there is nothing wrong with it if I see the .swf file, but when I convert it to a graphic or movie clip that imported image is getting ****ed up totally, does anybody know how to fix this prob?

tnx in adv

Imported Images
I'm importing a picture from my computer seperate from flash into flash, that's easy. My problem is that I can't get the white(since my picture is not a perfect square) to go away. How do I go about doing that? I want to make the background of the imported image transparent without effecting the rest of it

Morphing Imported Images.
Is there a way to make imported images morph? I know you can do it with images you made in Flash, but how can you do it with 2 images that you imported?

Editing Imported Images
im going crazy. heres the problem. im importing a jpg and that works just fine, but... the image was created in photoshop on a white canvas, and i cant get the white background to go away. i cant erase it, and if i select only the image in photoshop, and copy and paste it into flash, the background still shows up. do i need to change format? im pulling my hair out over what seems to be a simple process...help!

Using Imported Html + Images. . .
I'm using an external text file for my text. I want to know:
[if possible]
1.) How do I switch text files, using text files. Lets say I want to go to page 2 w/o having to change the swf file.

2.) How do I use imported html to show/import images with the text?

Problem With Imported Images
Hey all...

I have a little problem when I import images into my flash movie.. If I start a new movie and import a .png or .gif image it all looks like it should when I zoom in..... But when I then test the movie it doesn't show it right.... it looks like it has duplicated the image and then moved it down by 1 pixel..... The image i've imported has a bright top line and a black bottom line, both 1 pixel thick.... It's very annoying because when I test it the black line at the bottom is gone and the bright line at the top is now 2 pixels thick

Anyone had this kinda problem also ?

Any help would be appreciated

Transparency With Imported Images
Hi,

Do you know the best way to import graphics to Flash? The problems I'm running into are this:

1) Is there a way to import graphics and maintain transparency?

2) What are the most popular file types to import, and from what program? I think Fireworks is a good one, but not sure.

Thanks.

How Do I Edit Imported Images?
I have drawings and pictures that I'd like to import to Flash and then be able to edit them with the flash drawing tools.
The drawings and pictures are in JPEG and BITMAP formats.
I've been able to import them to the library, but when I put them on the stage - I am unable to use any of the drawing tools like the brush or paint can. I can skew and "combine", but that is about it.

So how do I make a JPEG or BITMAP image editable?

Thank you in advance,
--- Paul Kinsella ---

Changing Imported Images
Is there anyway to change an imported image into an actual flash type object that can be used like any object created by flash?

Because I want to use an imported image for a masking effect, but its a gif so i dont know how i would transfer a pixel image into a flash vector. I had to make that image in pixel format just to clear that up.

Thnx in advance

Images Imported Into Flash
ok i really wouldnt call myself much of a newb but mah i thought i would post it in here.. cause im lazy to do it myself.

but images imported into flash.. now i have noticed that when i do it.. well at the moment im making a website, and the buttons are made in photoshop and are plastic looking things.. and well its too hard to make them in flash cause well i am a little lazy and photo shop is just a few simple layer styles.

anywayz.. what is the best extension to save it as.. so that imported into flash it isnt distorted in anywayz.. cause i dont like getting little pixel dots.. and though i could try my best to make it in flash.. its just takes too much time then i have now..

so thanks if you can help..

its obviously either .jpeg , .gif , bitmap , png.. anywayz if you wouldnt mind making your suggestions..

thanks again.. cya

Images Imported With A Hue Effect
How the heck do you import a fireworks image onto the flash document with the image still bieng with it hue/ or seethrough effect. I really have tryed over and over again but i find it cannot be done if it can? then can you import it onto a dreamweaver etc with that effect in tact.

If you still don't know what i'm saying then its the kind of effect like looking out of a stainglass window. that effect on an image whcih i want to import on flash or dreamweaver and move the image anywhere on the document with that effect visable by i.e. overlapping.

If you still don't know what i'm talking about then please say so and i'll get an image of what i mean posted here!

Imported - Images - Links
Basically the bit i need help on is detailed below, and this is what i want it to do:

Ive imported an image,
Its imported into a Movie Clip,
I want the image to have a link to a webpage on it,
I want to take the link form a text file i have,

***Is This Possible??

myVarsL["link0" + imageloaded] <== Where link is, and variable name

_root.mc2.placeholder_mc2 <== Where image is imported to

How would i do this?
Ive tried but with no luck
Lee

Scaling Imported Images
Is it possible to scale imported images.
My movie imports images at real time, they fade in, but i was wondering if its possible to control the size of the image read in, so maybe its imported and is animated from 50% of its size to 100%, anyone know if this is possible,
Lee

Centering Imported Images?
Quick question:

I'm creating a photo gallery. All of the JPEGs are on the server and I'm loading them into Movie Clips via the loadMovie command. Is there a way to get the images to center in the movie clip instead of aligning at the top left corner?

Thanks in advance for any help!

[CS3] Scaling Imported Images
Hi,

I have a Flash Actionscript 2.0 project in development and I have imported images onto the stage that I want to scale when the mouse hovers. However, when I scale, the images distort even with the slightest increase in size. Is there a way to prevent this?

TIA,
Matt

Jerky Imported Images
I've created a simple movie clip which fades an image in and out.
For some weird reason (and i've seen this in other flash movies) the image jerks at some keyframes.

Whats happening is that an entire column (possibly more) of pixels vanishes at some keyframes, practically like the image has been cropped at the centre.

i've removed smoothing on the images, thinking it was a compression problem, but this didnt solve it. I'm at a loss at what to do!

Centering Imported Images
Hello,

I am having difficulty centering jpgs that i have imported into the library with the stage. when i paste to center, the image is pasted centered to the bottom right of the canvas. when i test the video, it looks incorrect, when i post the video to website, it looks correct.

ideally, my canvas center would be my paste to center as well and would look correct in testing, and after posting it to the website.

my canvas size is 560x420.

any ideas on how to accomplish this?

Thanks!

Edited: 11/16/2007 at 02:13:02 PM by photofl0w

Printing Imported Images
For some reason, Flash won't let me print images I've imported, like .jpgs or .pngs. Other computers with other copies of the same program, though, seem to have no problem printing from the same files.

Does anyone know how to make it so Flash will print the whole image? Is there some option I need to toggle somewhere that I can't find?

Border Of Imported Images
hi,

whe i import a PNG with a 1px border into my stage the border becomes "misformed". its like the border is bigger on the left and top then on the right and bottom.

What can i do about that?

thanks!

Resize Imported Images
Can't figure this out.

Is it possible to anyway resize an image after it has been loaded into a moviClip through loadmovie ?

Can't get the code to work. Say somepicture.jpg is a 800 x 600 jpg.

Ex.

loadMovie("somepicture.jpg",MCfoo);
MCfoo._width=100;
MCfoo.height=100;

Skewing Imported Images
I want to import an image and then skew it slightly using actionscript. I know how to import images and such but what I need to know is how to skew it with AS without distorting the image too much.

Thanks

Imported Images Are Fuzzy
Hello,

I'm trying to import some jpeg buttons I've created into flash. Once they are imported, they become fuzzy and pixelated.

I've taken the following steps to fix the problem, to no avail:

1) Go to library > right-click on the image > go to properties > uncheck 'imported jpeg data' > change the quality to 100

2) In Publish Settings, "JPEG quality" is set to 100.

Any ideas? I'm using Flash 5.

Zooming Imported Images
I would like to construct an application where I would have a screen that shows a number of buttons and a framed area above those buttons (like a window). When one of the buttons is clicked, an external .swf or .jpg file would appear into the framed area above the buttons. \This is the easy part.

After the external image file has been placed into the frame, I want to be able to magnify or zoom into details of that image without the image extending past the outside of the frame (again, like looking at the image through a window). Also, I want to have the option of moving the image to see areas that may have been covered by the frame when the image was zoomed in. \Does this make sense so far?

The only thing that I can visualize is to create the stage and buttons on the root level, when a button is clicked - create a new MC and place the external .swf or .jpg file in that MC on level 1, and then some how create a mask on level 2 (window that shows the external image on level 1) at the same time.

Does anyone have a tutorial that they can point me to that shows the technique or code available to do this type of thing?

Problem With Imported PNG -images
This is a kinda strange problem. I've been working with flash for 8 months now, and every time I import a transparent PNG file (created with photoshop) there is something terribly wrong with the transparent area. It's seems to have a tiny glimpse of colour in it! And it's suppose to be transparent!!! Now, I talked to my friends about this, and there's nothing wrong with my eyes

Flash MX creates a little, coloured area around the imported PNG. It's not easily detected, and sometimes I cannot observe it on different monitors.

Anyway, I guess you people know about this problem... So what is the ultimate answer