RE: FLASH: JDowdell: Filter/plugins for Flash 5?

[Daniel Gray]

Jason Bouwmeester wrote:


> The only problem with applying Photoshop-type filters to your swfs is that

> it rasterizes the symbol that you apply the filter to which increases the

> file size... my guess is that that is the reason why MM has stayed away from

> filters to truly keep Flash a vector-format program.


Er, yup Jason.  But as much as we preach vector vector vector (and I've

been on the pulpit for more than a decade), there are *lots* of times

that folks need to use bitmaps.  There's a right time for each.


Sidebar: look at the cartoons on TV and we'll see things in vectors

(characters) and things in bitmaps (backgrounds).  


Cheers,

Dan

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