Re: FLASH: Graphic elements

[John Dowdell]

At 10:25 PM 8/28/0, Remik wrote:

> Photoshop 6 does vector graphics.


Please be careful here, and check into the actual functionality. From what

I see of screenshots you can now add shapes (made somewhere else?) to go

out to a printer, but there doesn't seem to be the actual editing of shapes

as you'd see in Macromedia Flash or Fireworks or such.


There's a great effort being made now to co-opt buzzwords and spread

uncertainty... please make sure you don't get bit by the hype, thanks.



For Cheri's original post, a lot depends on what you want to do. If someone

has a nice pixel-based image that you'd like to use, then it can be brought

into Macromedia Flash. You'll need to be careful about compression, and

filesize, and whether it's resized by even a single pixel.


If you can, it would usually be better to deal with vectors. These resize

and animate easily. You can add texture to vector shapes by pixel-based

fills: small tiles which download quickly but which can fill a large shape.


Still, you can import pixel-based art in a variety of formats. If you're

imported compressed JPG, then set the Library item's Bitmap Properties to

"Use imported JPEG data" to avoid recompression.


jd






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