Hi - I've tried searching the forums- but am not finding what I want...

I want to use some inages as buttons, but they are silhouetted in photoshop.
If I save them as .jpg then the background loses its transparency and I get 
the
white box around my image. The only format that seems to respect this is .pn
g
(?) not a format I'm really familiar with but it seems to work.

Being in the main part of the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" school of
thought I am more or less happy to carry on using this format - but I have a
feeling I may be overlooking something more obvious.

comments?

Thanks

"stickleback" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Hi - I've tried searching the forums- but am not finding what I
> want...
>
> I want to use some inages as buttons, but they are silhouetted in
> photoshop.
> If I save them as .jpg then the background loses its transparency
> and I get the
> white box around my image. The only format that seems to respect
> this is .png
> (?) not a format I'm really familiar with but it seems to work.
>
> Being in the main part of the "if it ain't broke don't fix it"
> school of
> thought I am more or less happy to carry on using this format - but
> I have a
> feeling I may be overlooking something more obvious.
>
> comments?
>
> Thanks

PNG format is exactly the best "working" format to use with Flash.  It
is non-destructive to pixel data and the larger file size means
nothing since it will be compressed to jpeg compression when you
compile the swf file.
tralfaz

well whaddyaknow - even a broken watch is right twice a day!!

Thanks - got something right - incredible though it may seem!

"stickleback" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> well whaddyaknow - even a broken watch is right twice a day!!
>
> Thanks - got something right - incredible though it may seem!

It hadda happen sooner or later.  hehehe
tf

It helps to know also that, jpg does not support transparency.  Gif and Png 
do.

Ken