Honestly, I can't tell that much difference in quality between Photoshop's JPEGs and Director's, at least when photographic images are used. The chief benefit of JPEGing in Director, in my opinion, is that you can import images with alpha channels (TIFs, Photoshop files through photocaster)) and JPEG them afterward, but you can't have alpha channels in JPEGs.
Yes!
JPEG is an RGB format - Save As JPEG from Photoshop (and others) causes the alpha to be applied into the RGB channels before compression & outputting.
Director also uses it's loss-less 'standard' compression on the alpha channel so that it doesn't get JPEG-shmeared. The expanded RGB & alpha get recombined when played back.
Note: Director can Import 4-channel (RGB+A) Photoshop files w/o the Photocaster Xtra
Director has included the Photoshop 3.0 Import Xtra for this since d6.
It's in the \Xtras\Mix\ folder.
Photocaster is for importing multi-LAYER documents into sequential cast member slots
hth -Buzz
Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29
----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Gross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 10:57 AM Subject: Re: <lingo-l> Image size
leaveActually, to get the best quality images with the smallest filesize, do your compression in Photoshop or Fireworks or some application designed for such compression. Compressing images in Director is OK, and easy, but not ideal. If you import a compressed image, it will look big in Director while you are authoring, but will be the compressed size in your projector or Shockwave movie. If you use Director's compression, you will get some images looking better than others.
Do check the Lingo-l archives, there are some good explanations of this.
=Phil
Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote:
>To get the best quality images with the smallest filesize, you should>the ones you're importing uncompressed, then when you import them, settheirto>compression to JPEG and a quality around 60 or 70 (or lower if space is a >premium), then when you create the projector, make sure to check the >"compress media" box, and it will use your JPEG settings inside Director>compress the images. > >Charlie Fiskeaux II >Media Designer >The Creative Group >www.cre8tivegroup.com >859/858-9054x29 > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Tab Julius" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: "Mailinglist Lingo eng. 1" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 9:07 AM >Subject: Re: <lingo-l> Image size > > > > >>At 08:37 AM 3/26/03, Alex wrote:> >> > >> > >>>Quick simple question that is bugging me, I have a series of Jpg images > >>>that in the windows folder register as being 12k in size the biggest ones > >>>being 96k.massive>>> >>>When I import them into Director each of the images shoot up to a>>>1.8mb in size? I wonder why it does that? Does it convert the jpg'sfromis>>> >>> >a > > >>>compressed >>>format to a bitmap or something??? >>> >>> >>That's it exactly. Director expands them in memory to be uncompressed. >> >>If you need to reduce it, consider changing the color quality from, say, >>32-bit to 24 bit or 16-bit. >> >>- Tab >> >>[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >> >> >http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L>for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > > > > >[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go tohttp://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > >> >
[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go tohttp://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
