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IMPORTING PHOTOS INTO FLASH - POOR QUALITY

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Default-profile hollyc
4 posts
Bought between 10 and 49 items

Hi! I’m hoping to get some insight. I’ve fully developed a site recently and the photo quality looks like s!%t.

If you go to www.candour-fl.com, you’ll see that it takes FOREVER to load, and that when you do get inside it, the photo quality is poor.

I guess what I’m wondering is if there is a way to save JPG files from Photoshop and import them into Flash. What settings do they need to be at? For the current site, they are 1280×853 saved as high quality JPG files. Would it help if I saved them in Photoshop under “Save for Web & Devices”? Or is there some setting I need to have on the photos in the library of my Flash file?

Any help you can shed on importing photos into Flash to allow them to look crisp and clear, would be really beneficial and may save the hair that I do still have on my head.

Thanks so much for your time in advance!!!!

Posted about 1 month ago
38045 Ziyad
104 posts
Referred at least one person Sold between 100 and 1 000 dollars

In the Library, Right-Click the Bitmap and go on Properties. Change Compression to Lossless.

Hopes this Helps :D

Posted about 1 month ago
51614 LGLab
149 posts
Exclusive author Referred at least one person Sold between 1 000 and 5 000 dollars Bought between 10 and 49 items

Hi Holly,

I have just tested your site at 1280×1024 resolution and the quality is fairly good, but the site does take forever to load though, you should definitely save your pics for web in photoshop or load them dinamically.

However, since you said the quality was shit, I did test your site at 1024×768 and that’s when it all goes wrong. The fact that your text also looks rubbish at this res. tells me that you might have coded your site to resize entirely depending on the screen res., probably using system.capabilities or something. This is not a good approach at all, as if you tell your entire movie to shrink by 25% when the user’s res. is 1024×768, it will result in this poor quality, pictures, text etc….

Posted about 1 month ago
53563 MBMedia
123 posts
Exclusive author Author was featured Sold between 1 000 and 5 000 dollars

It has nothing to do with the image itself. What is happening is that you’re taking a large image and shrinking it, so when flash has 1000 pixels by 1000 pixels and it has to display it in 500 pixels by 500 pixels it doesn’t know what pixels it should show, and what ones it shouldn’t, resulting in that pixellated look that you are noticing.

Every image inside flash is a Bitmap class object. The Bitmap class has a property called smoothing. This property makes the bitmap smooth out to look how it should (but takes some serious processor). Any time you have a Bitmap that is not displaying its exact size or that is moving, you should turn the smoothing property to true to avoid that pixellated look.

var myBitmap: Bitmap = placeYourBitmapObjectHere myBitmap.smoothing = true;

Posted about 1 month ago
44647 Charlie78
68 posts
Won a competition Exclusive author Item was featured Referred at least one person Sold between 10 000 and 50 000 dollars Bought between 1 and 9 items

@ hollyc – Please check this file http://flashden.net/item/ultimate-gallery-v2/17123 . It uses Flash 8 smoothed bitmap and as you can see no matter what the resolution is the quality is great.
About image size in kb pay attention to the image resolution (72px/inch is enough for monitors in my opinion).

Posted about 1 month ago
Default-profile DominorNovus
1 post
Bought between 1 and 9 items
In the Library, Right-Click the Bitmap and go on Properties. Change Compression to Lossless. Hopes this Helps :D

This is probably the best piece of flash information I’ve stumbled across in a while.

I actually used it on a png image that looked fine when playing inside the flash program (enter) but lost its quality when I published it (ctrl + enter).

After changing the compression as you advised the png image is now perfect.

Thanks so much!

Posted about 1 month ago
37144 rondog
213 posts
Exclusive author Author was featured Referred at least one person Sold between 5 000 and 10 000 dollars Bought between 10 and 49 items

Whoa holly..your site is 23mb! You should consider loading external swfs, jpgs, pngs because it took a little more than a minute to get in. Its a nice site and you guys have some nice work, but that time is going to throw people away.

I am sure the compression settings will help a bunch though.

Posted about 1 month ago