Re: Indexing wrong color in FW 3. >:(

by 2Nerotik <2nerotik(at)nisa.net>

 Date:  Thu, 23 Dec 1999 16:21:54 -0800
 To:  hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org
 References:  nisa
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At 12:13 PM 12/23/99 -0800, Carol Geary wrote:
>After breaking the bitmap apart and removing the background, you could
>select all the parts and convert to a symbol. Does that make it any
>smaller? About the import, one idea is that the background color of the
>movie is used. Did you set it to black or white?

No unfortunately it doesn't seem to make it smaller after I grouped it back
together, I thought it would too. The background of the F movie is Black,
but I need the image to be overtop of another which is why I need the
black background of the BMP removed or be transparent.


>By the way have you tried the Flash news group? It is pretty good about
>getting specific answers.

I thought I'd try the graphics list first but have now sent a email to the 
Flasher
list now because there is still a lot of traffic on it at the moment and 
need an
answer by Sat.

But thanks for trying Carol =c)

>2Nerotik wrote:
> >
> > I have a bitmap image that I want to convert to PNG to import into Flash 4.
> >
> > I've tried  breaking it apart and removing the background but this leaves
> > the Flash
> > file too big for just one image and it loads too slowly.
> > ...
> > I then import it into Flash but the stupid image comes in with
> > the transparency
> > being indexed as pure white and not black.
>--



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