Flash Site Design - Image Degradation on Upload (or my fiance is going to kill me)

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Image Degradation on Upload (or my fiance is going to kill me)

Ian Gelbrich

2004-04-02, 4:35 am

Ok imagine if you will a simple elegant flash site for my impending
wedding....at least that's what I told her. The date is fast approaching and
I'm having technical difficulties.

I'm having problems with image quality not just of bitmaps but of flash text
as well. I'm using Flash 5. The published versions read fine and smooth on
my computer but after I upload them to my comcast account, the quality of
the text in the bitmap and the flash text get's extremely pixelated unless
I'm on the 21" monitor at the office, and even that isn't that great, I've
tried everything I can think of. to remedy the situation.

I've switched all the bitmaps to lossless.
I've brought files in as .PSD rather than .jpeg
I think I've checked over every publishing setting.

I don't understand why it would look fine on my screen until I upload it to
the website.

Here's a sample:

http://home.comcast.net/~i.gelbrich/final-2.html

Any help you can give, may save me. Thanks in advance.

-Ian

tralfaz

2004-04-02, 4:35 am

"Ian Gelbrich" <igelbrich@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:c4j05s$hlp$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> I think I've checked over every publishing setting.
> http://home.comcast.net/~i.gelbrich/final-2.html

You are using 100% scale instead of the actual dimensions. Scaling photos
degrades them. Use the actual fixed size if you want good quality images.
tralfaz

Peter Blumenthal

2004-04-02, 4:36 am

Both partly correct. The reason your text looks shoddy (except on your
superfast computer) is because in your HTML your object tag has:

<PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=best>

and your embed tag redas:

quality=best

Both of these should be set to HIGH rather than BEST.

HTH - good luck with your big day!

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Rob De Vries

2004-04-02, 7:30 am

PNG
use PNG images (seems this is one of the 'big' secrets about good images in
flash)
png"s are lossles, not big and they come with transparent backgrounds !
and do'nt let them get compressed by flash, you can set the image quality
for every png serperatly

so onces again use PNG (skipp jpg, gif, psd, ..)