FLASH HELP PLEASE - jagged images!!!

[muzzamcfuzza]

Hi,

I am quite new to flash. I am doing a web site using flash but my images have jaggedy edges, is this something to do with GIF's?
Have a look...mine is www.conceptpartnership.co.uk
How have they achieved this seamless flash movie here?... www.theoneoff.com/recruitment/

Would really help if I could sort this out.

Thanks

[webgoblin]

The reason you have jagged lines is because you are using GIF images. The problem with a GIF is that you can only make a single color transparent. It does not use a full 256 scale alpha channel. As a result you, have jagged edges when you import them into Flash because your edges are not clean and cannot be anti-aliased to blend into the background. There are three possible solutions to this problem.

1) Save your graphics as PNG files and make sure there is no background present in the image. PNG is a far more useful format than GIF when using Flash because you have a greater range of color and a real alpha channel.

2) Save you images as JPG files (or any other format that Flash imports) and cut the background out in Flash. Do this by dragging your bitmap image to the stage, then break it (Ctrl-B). Now you can use the line tool to trace around the image and remove what you don't want.

3) Recreate the graphics in Flash. This is what they did in the site you showed as an example. The graphics you are trying to animate are pretty basic and could easily be rebuilt in Flash. This is probably the best solution because then the graphics are all vector-based and can be scaled and altered without any quality loss.

Any of these solution will work. Personally, for you project, I would go with number 3.

Enjoy,

WebGoblin

[muzzamcfuzza]

Thats a huge help, thanks very much!