Photoshop to Flash via GIF

Photoshop to Flash via GIF
Mr. Skocko Room 246 • 593-5446 • Mac Lab • Valhalla Home

This tutorial deals with isolating a portion of an image to animate in Flash

We will be saving as a GIF to import the object with a transparent background so it can do something like:

(This is quick and dirty, you'll do a better job)

Here's the original image

First we've got to select the ball

Command-J to "Jump" the selection to its own layer

To see the results, click the visibility icon next to the background layer

Make sure your new layer is visible against a transparent background like this one

(The checkerboard indicates transparency)

Navigate to Image > Trim...

In the Trim dialog box, select the following options

Photoshop trims the canvas to fit the visible pixels

This is a great feature for trimming Web graphics as well!

Shift-Option-Command-S to Save for Web

For Settings, select GIF 128 Dithered

For higher quality, push Colors to 256 and Dither to 100%

JPG on left, GIF on right (but the JPG would save with a white background)

Just a comparison of image quality—ordinarily we would save such an image as a JPG

And like I said, your animations will be much better than this one