Re: Attention MM: (was) Re: FLASH: OT: PNG instead of GIF/JPEGs

[John Dowdell]

At 5:36 AM 11/6/0, Colleen Appleton wrote:

> Can you clarify what this means?


uhm, err, sorry, I'm not sure what "this" is....  ;-)


I read the description a few times, and it sounds like you're using some

type of Photoshop-compatible Export Plugin...? If so, then an Export Plugin

tends to just produce a GIF, JPG, or whatever type of files it exports.


The quoted section from the Fireworks documentation seems to be the part

about the differences between apply a Photoshop-style Pixel Filter Plugin

in the usual Photoshop way, versus applying it in the live Fireworks way.

The first changes the pixels completely, while the second retains the

original pixels and just specifies instructions for rendering those

pixels... rephrased, when you apply a pixel filter in Photoshop it changes

your pixels, but in Fireworks you can have the same pixel filter be applied

non-destructively.


(Wow, that's still a mouthful... you know how Photoshop now has things it

calls "layer effects"? Well, Fireworks had those first, and it can also use

nearly any Photoshop-style pixel filter as a LiveEffect too. That's what

that section of the docs is about.)



So, if you're using a Photoshop-style Export Plugin, then that's just

another way to make a TIFF or whatever. This is different from using a

Photoshop-style Pixel Filter Plugin. Did I correctly identify the core of

the issue there...?


jd






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