Well.. aside from the difference between the levels, curves, and no compensation, I couldn't figure out exactly the differences and problems you were trying to work around... When I export jpgs from Photoshop for use in Flash, and quality is an issue (normally I use "save for web" to get the best optimization) I'll either use the standard "Save as..." and set the quality to max. If it's still an issue, I'll "Save as..." a .tif format and import that to flash. I also found that deselecting the smoothing and choosing the lossless (PNG/GIF) gave me the closest to the original.
Try this.. goto http://hamspread.com/compare.html and put "curtain_raw_icc.jpg.swf" (no quotes) into one field and "curtain_raw_icc.tif.swf" into the other and press [RELOAD]. Then click on the left image (the controller) and using your mouse wheel zoom in to the pixel level. You'll notice that the tif version is ever so slightly darker, but normally you wouldn't notice. The "curtain_raw_icc.jpg" image original is on my server too, load that into a pane and compare it to the swf version.. You'll not see any difference, meaning Flash didn't mess it up on import. Now, you might be thinking that it's getting loaded into a swf anyway.. So open it in another browser window without flash, I couldn't see any difference. You can also put a url into those fields and compare versions on different servers. If you don't have a mouse wheel, then you can use [page-up]/[page-dn] to zoom in/out. When using the keyboard, you can hold [shift] and/or [control] to speed zoom and movement (yep, arrow keys work too). [Home] centers and [end] scales back to 100% (because of the mode I set on these panes, if the image is smaller then the pane it will scale the image up to fill the pane on at least one axis). And of course you can drag with your mouse... And if you really want to move the image on the right and not have it affect the one on the left, click it and use your arrow keys. Side by side comparisons in your tutorial showing examples of what your trying to avoid would help ;) When you say, "of course importing jpgs dosent work", exactly what do you mean? I'm not trying to prove you wrong, I've had issues in the past, but I wouldn't exactly say that it doesn't work. Of course, I suck at Photoshop which is why I stick to coding things like those custom drag panes ;) On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 12:55 +0100, Tomas Nygren wrote: > Hi! > > I had great problems with this > > How to really get good quality images in flash, of course importing > jpgs dosent work so I'm aheading into just importing .psd files and > then specifying in the flash to compress them as 95% (yes large files > but I dont know any else better procedure) > > The gamma integration with Flash 8 and Photoshop really sucks so... > (no ICC compability) > > Then I thought to make a tutorial for my own to see what kind of > procedure I can develop: > > http://tomasnygren.com/tutorials/images_to_flash/ > > what do you think, any comments? > > still I think I will get better results from this procedue and faster > instead of changing the images with individual settings each time, since the > changes are always so similar.. > > best > Tomas Nygren > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] > To change your subscription options or search the archive: > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software > Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training > http://www.figleaf.com > http://training.figleaf.com _______________________________________________ [email protected] To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
