image quality

[davekunz]

My images look contrasty and sharp in Photoshop (too much even) then I import them into Flash, hit the Ctrl Enter keys to test the movie, and they still look pretty good... but when I look at the movie in a browser they look super soft. I'm importing Jpegs at 100% and publishing them at 100%, I tried unchecking the allow smoothing option in Bitmap properties and I even made sure the images sit on whole pixel numbers... Does anyone have any ideas?

Any tips on holding the detail etc. on the smaller jpegs?

...sorry I've been in the 300dpi world so long I feel lost.

[reverendflash]

are you displaying the movie in full screen, or enlarged at all?

other than that, I don't know. I don't use PS a lot for that very reason. FW is a lot quicker, and by default issues better quality in Flash.

JWhttp://aulman.com/rev.gif

[Coolidge]

Try this:

Export out of Photoshop as a PNG.

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Then use Flash to compress the PNG (as JPEG) in the export settings.

Hopefully that should work!

[mlk]

send the files =)

[DDD]

I would say try png.....If you change the size even a lil bit in flash you will get loss in quality. I reallu dont prescribe PS png for some reason I have noticed little anomalies in it.

[davekunz]

thanks for the tips...


John Warfin, is FW... Fire Works and are you saying you resize and web prep your images in FW?