Importing Photoshop image into Flash...

Hello, I just put together a banner image in photoshop that I would like to import into Flash and put a small navigation menu at the bottom but whenever I use the import to stage feature I am getting a large amount of discoloration in the image.?I've tried saving it as a .tif and .png but both came out looking poor.?Attached is an image to show what I mean.?Anyone have a suggestion on this?

Importing Photoshop image into Flash...

Here's an article that may help to explain the problem and provide some help: http://www.creativepro.com/article/tips-for-managing-web-color-in-photoshop

Importing Photoshop image into Flash...

Have you tried importing to library then converting to a movie clip or pasting directing from PhotoShop into Flash. One other option if you haven't already tried Optimize for Web in PhotoShop there you have more control over you optimization setting Flash is a vector program so it isn't the best at image optimization, so you want to optimize in PhotoShop (of FireWorks). If you haven't optimzed for web Flash will kind-of do this on an import but it won't do as good of a job as PhotoShop or FireWorks.

One more thing when you created this graphic did you make sure to use web color only, rmember the web views I think only 246 colors (somenthing like that) so anything outside of gamut will go to the next best thing.

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That isn't true at all. The web safe color palette had nothing to do with the limitation of the web and everything to do with the limitation of color monitors at the time it was proposed. At the time the color palette was proposed many displays could only display a maximum of 256 colors on screen simultaneously. The operating systems reserved about 20 colors each for their own use and that left 216 available color slots. Anything about that number that tried to display on screen at the same time would caouse color banding (what gifs images do to photos).

But that was along time ago.

Great article Rob...thanks for posting!

Dave