Re: FLASH: OT: PNG instead of GIF/JPEGs

[Colleen Appleton]

First off, can you please tell me what Hejsan means?  I've been meaning to

ask that.


Now, as for PNG's, until last night, I was using bmp, open with Photoshop,

clean up the image, export as jpeg, import into Fireworks, export as a

smaller file, then import into Flash.  Same with gifs.  Kimberly ( a MM

representative who did a demo last night) taught me tricks with Fireworks,

Freehand, Dreamweaver and Flash.  She used a PNG that was about 180 kb and I

gasped!  By the time she was done with it, it was a clean crisp image that

was about 5 k.  And the original PNG was still in tact.  I guess there is

going to be new browsers that handle PNG files but for now, browsers can

read them?  I was doing too many steps to reduce my files.


I bow my head in shame for not giving Fireworks more credit.  *blush*


Anyway, I'm going to be importing PNG files from now on and letting Flash do

the compressing whenever possible.  It was amazing what she demonstrated!


Colleen



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Hejsan!


Just curious: How many people use PNGs entirely for website purposes?


Best wishes,


   Thorvald Neumann

   Multimedia Developer





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