I'm not sure what Photoshop you're using... Photoshop 7 (and all the other versions I've used since 3) discards the alpha channel when saving as a JPEG.
Charlie Fiskeaux II Media Designer The Creative Group www.cre8tivegroup.com 859/858-9054x29 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Buzz Kettles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 5:17 PM Subject: Re: <lingo-l> Image size > 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 > > > > > >> Actually, 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 > >leave > >> >the ones you're importing uncompressed, then when you import them, set > >their > >> >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 > >to > >> >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. > >> >>> > >> >>>When I import them into Director each of the images shoot up to a > >massive > >> >>>1.8mb in size? I wonder why it does that? Does it convert the jpg's > >from > >> >>> > >> >>> > >> >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 > >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]). 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