Crossflight Studio » flash http://crossflightstudio.com Personal Portfolio of Chris LaChance Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:09:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Flash : My Image Keeps Turning Into a Red Block! http://crossflightstudio.com/2010/flash-my-image-keeps-turning-into-a-red-block/ http://crossflightstudio.com/2010/flash-my-image-keeps-turning-into-a-red-block/#comments Fri, 23 Apr 2010 10:23:45 +0000 cfstudio http://crossflightstudio.com/?p=14 Maybe you’ve seen this error. Maybe not. But for those of you that have, you’ve probably cried yourself to sleep thinking the whole project is corrupted. Re‐importing the image every time you work with the file is no fun. So what can you do?

And I’m glad to let you know, I seemed to have found a fix. Exporting graphics from Photoshop at the PNG‐24 Save For Web setting with transparency active, for whatever reason, causes Flash to occasionally throw an error when your FLA reloads. Apparently the issue comes from the PNG having a solid colored pixel touching an edge, and transparent pixel also touching an edge.

The fix is simple. Merely increase the RELATIVE canvas size by 2 on both the width & height in Photoshop & re-export your image. That’s all. After all these years of the obscure broken image…

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It has many customizable features, from stretching SWFs, to adjusting screen resolution, and customizing your installer. Good source of fun, or potentially income!

Be sure and install the latest version, and then the newest beta.

Don’t forget to give back!

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After extensive testing, a flattened LZW TIF with default Photoshop se6ngs seemed to compress the best for images without transparency & take up the least amount of filesize on disk. But, for those transparent image needs PNG‐24 (using the Save for Web dialog) won out.

I also noticed, just switching the AS library from 2 –3 barely increased filesize on publish as well. The same was true with activating JPG de‐blocking.

Obviously, if you are remotely loading your images, the smallest file‐size image wins that test.

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