Posted this in another section but this could apply here too.

Can anyone help me with this problem I seem to be having with flash?? I know this is probably some stupid little setting somewhere I have to tweak but I can't find it. I'm trying to put a picture into flash on the canvas. I have a seperate layer for it. Nothing else is on the layer. Properties for the picture is set at 100 % quality. My publish settings are set at 100% quality for Jpegs and I've tried every setting I can find but the picture keeps displaying at a low resolution when I preview my movie. It displays fine on the design screen when I test it. But whenever I preview it - it just farts. I don't understand it. I have put tons of pictures of high rez images in flash files before and never had this problem. I had a similar problem with sound once and found like a third place to edit sound properties for the file I was working with and that did the trick - I imagine the solution is something similar but I am stuck.

PLEASE HELP

THANX

well, i had this problem once, but i found that it was just the publishing settings. Are you certain you set up the settings correctly? Also, if you enlarge the pictures on the window, the quality will go down as well...though that doesn't seem to be the problem right now...

Are you using Flash MX?

upload or send me a link to the flash file and I will see if I can see the problem and maybe suggest a answer?

If you have it, open the pic in fireworks and save it as a .png It'll lose a small amount of quality, but I've found png files more usable in flash than gifs or jpegs. Also, test it by pressing F12. It is an actual published preview, rather than a scene/movie test. But, I could be wrong, so check your publish settings first.
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Aaron

I am not sure what problem you are facing but I hope the following suggestion will help:-

• Open your Flash Application.
• Locate and open the fla file.
• Open the Library of the fla file by pressing "Ctrl" and "L".
• Locate the jpeg file and right click to open its properties, change the percentage of compression setting to at least 80% or more.
• Locate the jpg file in your timeline and locate the layer.
• Delete the jpg file and reapply it again from your Library.

If that still would work import the jpg file again and make sure you have import the right jpg file with the right size.

I think the best way to import pics into flash would be to paste it there, then go to Modify > Bitmap > Trace Bitmap. A thing should pop up. If you want it to look realistic (the same), change the values to 10, 1, Pixels and Many Corners. That should make it so that the picture still look the same quality even if you zoom in.

I had previously tried most of the things everyone has suggested - and thanks for the replies. I have since fixed the problem and I'm still not really sure why it was behaving like that. It just seems that after I had published it countless times and couldn't find anymore settings to adjust it just started appearing normal. I don't understand why - you would think with a computer there would be some logical answer or a setting that I changed to make it appear ok but I don't think I changed anything.


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Why the site that I'm browsing , the pics are tured to red X? I can't see the pics!