Dennis Eusebio’s Story
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Made on June 27, 2007
So, long story short...
While Dennis Eusebio was working on a website
Dennis Eusebio made the mistake of
not using png's in my flash movies
My Advice to You is
although they appear larger, when you export flash you'll get better results with png's
Here's the whole story
Basically, by using png's in your flash movies instead of jpg's you get a reduced file size and better visual quality. Its really odd because the file sizes are significantly larger than a jpg but somehow flash processes them and makes them smaller.
Thanks to Levi for pointing this one out to me.
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Comments (3)
I think we could make an entire category for photoshop, illustrator and flash mistakes. I learned this one through the Kirupa forums a couple of months into my job at the ATP. I was doing so many flash banners and nothing ever looked good when I tried to use transparency; in come the png files!
Its not often I get to teach Dennis something about the web, so im gonna relish in this one. "Thats my bike fool!" ps, he also forgot to mention that I showed him how to zoom in, zoom out, and return by using the apple+ & apple- keys. haha. Shool is in son, welcome to the thunderdome!!!
Because JPG is highly compressed, it doesn't compress much further. PNG, as far as I'm aware, is relatively uncompressed, and therefore significant gains can be made with a Flash or similar process.