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Webmaster Forum / Flash / General Flash Topics / July 2008Banner Help...please.
Hi, I am fairly new to flash and had a quick question, maybe you can help me with. I created a banner using .jpg images and then published it as an animated GIF file. The out come is at the link below... http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn215/ynpavlov/EPsBanner468x60.gif Could someone please tell me why it is all "dotted"/ "pixelated"? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. It's a gif... that's why. A gif can have only 256 colors in it. So to handle more, a dithering algorithm is used. You can try messing with the gif output options, but if you're going with gif you quality is going to degrade. Really the only thing gif is good for is making small images out of text. Why not just use swf?  SignatureDave - www.offroadfire.com Head Developer http://www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ Thanks. I knew that about .gif files, but the thing is, i am getting ready to launch an AD campaign online, and some sites only accept .gif files, also the file sizes are limited to 50-80kb and .swf files are a lot bigger than that...so that is why i was wondering if i can get a better quality image out of a gif file. If you have any other suggestions, please let me know. Thanks again. -Yuri 50 - 80K is plenty of room for a .swf, you could do your example in less than that easily, and it'll look better. Not that I'm into ad's too much, but I've done my share and haven't seen a site that won't accept swf for a little while. But good luck with .gif if you pursue it. You can google ways to make it look better - similar color palette, etc. SignatureDave - www.offroadfire.com Head Developer http://www.blurredistinction.com Adobe Community Expert http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/ Well, i guess i have another problem on my hands, how come all my .swf file is like 2.2MB for the banner that you saw? Are you placing your images at 100%? If you are importing images at a larger size and reducing them, that could be a reason your SWF is so large. Also, you can adjust the compression in its properties and that will bring down your size. On a side note, I have also experienced sites that only allow GIFs, which is irritating. :) If you wanna use .swf file, no need to put seperate jpg in each frame ... you can import few pics and animate them with flash ,, it will be much better and as i guess an ad like the one above wont take more than 50 kb |
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