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John John
Dec 16, 2005
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I have produced a GIF image of a film stip created in Photoshop that will be used in a Macromedia Flash MX movie. The idea of the movie is to show the strip of film and have indivdual photos fade in to each individual frame. One end of the film strip fades into transparency.

When I save the images "for the web" it leaves a halo of white (or whatever other matte color I choose) around the image. It also leaves the color in the area where the image is fading into transparency. Using a single color for the matte is not an option. Setting matte to "none" deletes the fading effect at the end of the strip. When trying to layer these images in Flash these halos become very evident. When I try saving the image with various transparency dithers the image is degraded to the point it is unusable.

What is the best way to save these images?
Would a regular GIF or JPEG work in Flash?
Any other suggestions are deeply appreciated.

Sincerely,

Stuart Pedazzo…but you can call me Stu!
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Tacit
Dec 16, 2005
In article ,
Stuart Pedazzo wrote:

I have produced a GIF image of a film stip created in Photoshop that will be used in a Macromedia Flash MX movie. The idea of the movie is to show the strip of film and have indivdual photos fade in to each individual frame. One end of the film strip fades into transparency.

GIF does not permit translucency. A pixel is 100% transparent or 100% opaque; no in-between is permitted.

You can set the transparency of an image in Flash. Place your GIF (with no mate), then use the Transparency control in Flash to make it fade.

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Frank Vuotto
Dec 16, 2005
Sounds like your problem is with the end of the film strip that fades. You’d be better creating the strip in flash but you can also make that end solid again (no fade), save as a psd, import into flash, use ‘trace bitmap’ to convert ot a vector and experiment with shape > fade edges.

or.. you can import a psd into flash with the background intact(except for the hard edged cutouts for the photos) and the same color as the page you’re going to use it on (essentially a big, fancy mask).

Frank /~ http://newmex.com/f10
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On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 02:52:56 -0600, Stuart Pedazzo
wrote:

I have produced a GIF image of a film stip created in Photoshop that will be used in a Macromedia Flash MX movie. The idea of the movie is to show the strip of film and have indivdual photos fade in to each individual frame. One end of the film strip fades into transparency.
JJ
John John
Dec 16, 2005
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 15:52:50 GMT, tacit wrote:

In article ,
Stuart Pedazzo wrote:

I have produced a GIF image of a film stip created in Photoshop that will be used in a Macromedia Flash MX movie. The idea of the movie is to show the strip of film and have indivdual photos fade in to each individual frame. One end of the film strip fades into transparency.

GIF does not permit translucency. A pixel is 100% transparent or 100% opaque; no in-between is permitted.

You can set the transparency of an image in Flash. Place your GIF (with no mate), then use the Transparency control in Flash to make it fade.

This is true, but I do not want the entire image to be
transparent…just the end. The illision I am trying to create is that the last frame of the strip is disappearing into a fog.

Thanks for the GIF info!

Would saving as any other format work?

Sincerely,

Stuart Pedazzo…but you can call me Stu!
JJ
John John
Dec 16, 2005
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:53:25 -0700, Frank Vuotto
wrote:

Sounds like your problem is with the end of the film strip that fades. You’d be better creating the strip in flash but you can also make that end solid again (no fade), save as a psd, import into flash, use ‘trace bitmap’ to convert ot a vector and experiment with shape > fade edges.

or.. you can import a psd into flash with the background intact(except for the hard edged cutouts for the photos) and the same color as the page you’re going to use it on (essentially a big, fancy mask).
Frank /~ http://newmex.com/f10
@/

Thanks, Frank! I am a newbie to Flash. I am going to try your suggestions.

Sincerely,

Stuart Pedazzo…but you can call me Stu!
JJ
John John
Dec 16, 2005
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 12:13:49 -0600, Stuart Pedazzo
wrote:

On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:53:25 -0700, Frank Vuotto
wrote:

Sounds like your problem is with the end of the film strip that fades. You’d be better creating the strip in flash but you can also make that end solid again (no fade), save as a psd, import into flash, use ‘trace bitmap’ to convert ot a vector and experiment with shape > fade edges.

or.. you can import a psd into flash with the background intact(except for the hard edged cutouts for the photos) and the same color as the page you’re going to use it on (essentially a big, fancy mask).
Frank /~ http://newmex.com/f10
@/
It worked!!! All I had to do was save each image as a separate PSD file. When importing to Flash it said Flash did not recognize a PSD and would I like to try importing it through Quick Time? (Huh?)

I had nothing to lose so I tried it. It came through almost perfectly. The translucency at the end looks very good! A bit of white in 2 spots but it blends in well in the final production.

Thanks again!

Sincerely,

Stuart Pedazzo…but you can call me Stu!
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Tacit
Dec 17, 2005
In article ,
Stuart Pedazzo wrote:

This is true, but I do not want the entire image to be
transparent…just the end. The illision I am trying to create is that the last frame of the strip is disappearing into a fog.
Thanks for the GIF info!

Would saving as any other format work?

You could save as PNG with alpha transparency…but why?

Do not make the image transparent in Photoshop. If you just want the last frame to fade out, use the transparency command in Flash; that’s what it is there for.

Create a keyframe with the image at 100% opacity. Create a new keyframe and use Flash’s Transparency control to make the image 100% transparent. Create a tween betweein them. The image will fade out to nothing.

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