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100% FLASH, WHAT SIZE TO USE ON PICTURES?

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49850 MrH2o
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Howdy!

When you use a 100% flash file (fill the browser 100%) with pictures, what size do i need to make the pictures? Or is it all about dpi?

If I make the pictures 300px in height it might look sharp on a resolution of 1024*768 but jagged for higher resolutions, so what guidelines are there?

Another question while I’m at it: Which file format is best to use for pictures in flash? (jpg, png, tiff, psd?)

Thanks in advance!

/H2o

Posted about 1 month ago
48131 tsafi
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Sold between 1 and 100 dollars

100%stage with 300px its depend how you build your website.

If you want the pic` go full stage its all matter in the Quality of your pic` usually I go small size as possible and play with the pic` quality to have good resolute in a small size and then i look how it starch on the stage, tray to keep it small between 30-100 kb weight for a full screen, again its up to how much the high resolution is imported to you ,and I use always external pic` on my SWF , my main gold is always make small jpeg weight with a good quality.

Format to use; first Psd is the source file of Photoshop you cannot display it as an image, from Psd you export your pic in to your desirable format most of us use JPEG it’s the best and the most poplar format for displaying or editing web pictures or general images .

Posted about 1 month ago
38635 flasher3015
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Howdy!

When you use a 100% flash file (fill the browser 100%) with pictures, what size do i need to make the pictures? Or is it all about dpi?

If I make the pictures 300px in height it might look sharp on a resolution of 1024*768 but jagged for higher resolutions, so what guidelines are there?

Another question while I’m at it: Which file format is best to use for pictures in flash? (jpg, png, tiff, psd?)

Thanks in advance!

/H2o
300px in height?! :D You should consider making your pictures around 1400px if you want to display them in fullscreen, because 90% users these days have resolutions above 1000px

Posted about 1 month ago
49850 MrH2o
4 posts
Bought between 1 and 9 items

Thanks for your reply’s!

Tsafi; I used to import PSD into flash and then export the fla to swf, I guess it turned them into jpg automatically since I never had problem showing them.

jpeg is good but when you want transparent backgrounds is no alternative, so I guess png is the best choice then.

I guess i have to explain myself a little more, I will use this file ( http://www.flashden.net/item/ng-scroller-2-xml/16703 ) in my flash so its not 100% images, but its the same principe.

Let’s say a user with 600X480 is viewing the flash which will be scaled by the browser, the images might be 300px high then (which is the size i saved them as in photoshop). Then a user with 2048X1536 is viewing the same flash, I’m not a star when it comes to math but the height will be a little bigger since both the height and the width is bigger, so lets say the images are scaled to 430px then they will become jagged.

I hope i made myself clear, sure its not a big change in height for the images but still big enough to make bitmaps showing pixels

Posted about 1 month ago
48131 tsafi
85 posts
Sold between 1 and 100 dollars
Thanks for your reply’s!

Tsafi; I used to import PSD into flash and then export the fla to swf, I guess it turned them into jpg automatically since I never had problem showing them.

jpeg is good but when you want transparent backgrounds is no alternative, so I guess png is the best choice then.

I guess i have to explain myself a little more, I will use this file ( http://www.flashden.net/item/ng-scroller-2-xml/16703 ) in my flash so its not 100% images, but its the same principe.

Let’s say a user with 600X480 is viewing the flash which will be scaled by the browser, the images might be 300px high then (which is the size i saved them as in photoshop). Then a user with 2048X1536 is viewing the same flash, I’m not a star when it comes to math but the height will be a little bigger since both the height and the width is bigger, so lets say the images are scaled to 430px then they will become jagged.

I hope i made myself clear, sure its not a big change in height for the images but still big enough to make bitmaps showing pixels
I don’t like to use this method since I prepare my image first in Photoshop this way I have more control on the resolution size image arc` also if you don’t merge all the layer on your Psd then flash will export all the layer in to your FLA its not necessary since you going to publise only 1 image in you gallery.

Look to me that you want your pic ` to be show on any resolution with out scaling meaning you want you image to be fix on stage on matter what resolution you have .

You need to do the same thing as you are doing when your stage resize on you pic`”resizeHandler”

See function like this for example AS3

var w:uint = pic_mc.stage.stageWidth;

var h:uint = pic _mc.stage.stageHeight;
pic_mc.x = w / 2;
pic_mc .y= h / 2;
pic_mc.x = Math.max(800, w - pic_mc.width / 2);
pic_mc.y = Math.max(600, h - pic_mc.height / 2);

You can also add some twenn effect to make smooth

if you want to scaled with the stage according with the resolution to 100% you need to give it parameter as is with the stage scale

Posted about 1 month ago