photoshop to flash?

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KoperniK
Nov 9, 2005
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I have a number of raster shapes (sillouhettes of hats) on photoshop layers and need to get these into flash so i can make them morph into each other 1-2-3-4-5 etc.

I am at a loss as to how to get them into flash as editable shapes

I’ve tried every logical method of exporting – ai/eps/png/gif and even the PDF2FLA plugin but to no avail – when i get the thing into flash and right click and break apart, I alwasy have the rectangle surrounding each hat as part of the broken up image and so i cannot extract the hat shape. I’ve also tried selecting the hat shap in PS and pasting into flash but it pastes it as a rectangle, cropped to the edges of the hat shape.

I really don’t want to draw these again in flash – anyone have any clues?

Thanks 🙂

Jon
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Brian
Nov 10, 2005
KoperniK wrote:
I have a number of raster shapes (sillouhettes of hats) on photoshop layers and need to get these into flash so i can make them morph into each other 1-2-3-4-5 etc.

I am at a loss as to how to get them into flash as editable shapes
I’ve tried every logical method of exporting – ai/eps/png/gif and even the PDF2FLA plugin but to no avail – when i get the thing into flash and right click and break apart, I alwasy have the rectangle surrounding each hat as part of the broken up image and so i cannot extract the hat shape. I’ve also tried selecting the hat shap in PS and pasting into flash but it pastes it as a rectangle, cropped to the edges of the hat shape.

I really don’t want to draw these again in flash – anyone have any clues?
Thanks 🙂

Jon

Hi KoperniK,

ok here is what you do:

1. in PS select the object you want to import into Flash and copy it to the clipboard
2. in Flash, choose Paste Special and choose the option "as Device Independant Bitmap"
3. Click on Modify (menu) > Bitmap > trace bitmap
4. adjust any settings there you feel necessary and click OK
5. click on the white area outside your hat (in this case) and delete it. That is the white shaded area that used to be the bounding box around your bitmap.

All is done.

Regards,
Brian.
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sita
Nov 10, 2005
I hope this is useful to u,

1. Select the image u want to export to flash, using any of the selecting tools in PS.
2. Just copy it…………and paste in flash file.
3. Not break the bitmap image……….Using Ctrl+B.
4. Using lasso tool (in flash), select wand tool in options and select the white portion……and u can delete it.
5. Finally u will be remained with the required image…….

Regards
Sita

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