Flash MX question

liquidrliquidr
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in Mac Software edited January 2014
I'm trying to put together a small flash animation for a coworker. The problem I'm having is that I have to save the individual pieces as jpegs before coverting them to symbols, so the clear areas are translated to white. The white areas show when I need to overlap the pieces.



Is there a way to mask these white area, so they do not show?

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  • Reply 1 of 7
    silversilver Posts: 34member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by LiquidR

    I'm trying to put together a small flash animation for a coworker. The problem I'm having is that I have to save the individual pieces as jpegs before coverting them to symbols, so the clear areas are translated to white. The white areas show when I need to overlap the pieces.



    Is there a way to mask these white area, so they do not show?



    Take your jpg in Flash and Break it Apart (cmd-B), that way you can erase all the white stuff and make it transparant, or you can save your jpg as a gif in Photoshop and make the white zones transparant there (much easier).



    If that doesn't work (and why shouldn't it), you have to use a layer mask to, er, mask selected white zones in your jpg. But that can be a real drag ... \
  • Reply 2 of 7
    running with scissorsrunning with scissors Posts: 1,124member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Silver

    Take your jpg in Flash and Break it Apart (cmd-B), that way you can erase all the white stuff and make it transparant, or you can save your jpg as a gif in Photoshop and make the white zones transparant there (much easier).



    you can certainly do this if the image is not all that complex, but you really don't have that much control for this kind of thing flash. chances are, you'll make it look like a really bad photoshop job. avoid gifs. gif would more than likely look like shit. knock out your color in photoshop or whatever, then save it as a png with transparency. flash plays well with png.
  • Reply 3 of 7
    liquidrliquidr Posts: 884member
    Quote:

    originally posted by Silver



    Take your jpg in Flash and Break it Apart (cmd-B), that way you can erase all the white stuff and make it transparant, or you can save your jpg as a gif in Photoshop and make the white zones transparant there (much easier).



    If that doesn't work (and why shouldn't it), you have to use a layer mask to, er, mask selected white zones in your jpg. But that can be a real drag ...



    Cool. The Break apart sounds like it's lot simpler than what I thought I would need to do.



    Quote:

    originally posted by running with scissors



    you can certainly do this if the image is not all that complex, but you really don't have that much control for this kind of thing flash. chances are, you'll make it look like a really bad photoshop job. avoid gifs. gif would more than likely look like shit. knock out your color in photoshop or whatever, then save it as a png with transparency. flash plays well with png.



    Nah, what I'm doing is pretty simple. Some crude shapes to approximate body parts and heads and mouth cut from bad photos. I actually want it to look a little rough and cheeztastic. Going for the chuckles.



    Thanks to both of you, this will help out alot.
  • Reply 4 of 7
    the cool gutthe cool gut Posts: 1,714member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by LiquidR



    Is there a way to mask these white area, so they do not show?



    If your using Photoshop, and the "white" areas are transparent, you can save it as a ping, and you should be good to go. (by the way, your image has to be in RGB for you to be able to save it as a ping)
  • Reply 5 of 7
    running with scissorsrunning with scissors Posts: 1,124member
    if it's relatively simple, as you say, then once you get it into flash, trace bitmap and convert it to vector. then just select the white area and delete it. that would be easier than using the eraser tool.
  • Reply 6 of 7
    medialabmedialab Posts: 19member
    If you can remake your images, create them as .PNG files instead of .JPG. PNG images preserve their transparency when imported into Flash so there's no white space to delete.
  • Reply 7 of 7
    liquidrliquidr Posts: 884member
    Quote:

    originally posted by the cool gut



    If your using Photoshop, and the "white" areas are transparent, you can save it as a ping, and you should be good to go. (by the way, your image has to be in RGB for you to be able to save it as a ping)



    Quote:

    originally posted by medialab



    If you can remake your images, create them as .PNG files instead of .JPG. PNG images preserve their transparency when imported into Flash so there's no white space to delete.



    .PNG worked like a charm.
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