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

[Daniel Gray]

John Dowdell wrote:


> But pixel-based filters, as in Photoshop, are off-the-purpose...

> over-reliance on pixel-based imagery usually makes huge files, that stream

> chunkily, and which will slow down with even a single pixel's worth of

> resizing. Photoshop-style graphics should be regarded as a seasoning,

> rather than as the main course.


In many cases a single highly compressed bitmap can be more efficent

than a gaggle of vector objects.


Lets say I want to use a watercolor-ish painterly background image ...


Perhaps future versions of the Flash player could improve upon the

present version's performance with bitmaps?  Maybe it could support

advanced compression techniques?  That would be a very very cool thing.


> (btw, last time I checked Livemotion could only use a subset of Photoshop's

> own filters, and could not use third-party Photoshop-style filters as

> Fireworks can.)


That's not exactly correct, John. 


LiveMotion can, in fact, use third-party Photoshop plug-in filters

(although not all).  Hey, I wrote the "Photoshop Plug-ins Book" back in

'97 for *everyone* that used a Photoshop plug-in capable app ... now if

I could just find time to keep up with it all ...


> I'd still urge caution with pixel-based graphics, though... people who

> learned Photoshop as their first tool are often at a disadvantage when

> moving to environments where photo-processing software is not as

> appropriate, as you can tell from frequent posts in this and other

> forums....!


It's strictly an educational issue.  Folks need to know and understand

how it everything works together.  The more we can do to share the

knowledge, the better things will be for us all.  :)


Cheers,

Dan

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