help me! Effects for flash

hi, i made a design in illustrator where i included
a drop shadow effect on a plain vector shape.
(those that are in fireworks as well)
the thing is when i pasted all the shapes in flash,
this part comes blured thing comes with a white
rectangular background:
i have tried:
to make a gif. but it seem the degrade doesn't stay fine.
try to make a flash degrade to transparent no succes...
import it from fireworks, also the white background....

IS THERE A WAY? THANK YOU!
cynthia

As you probably know, flash is a vector based program. Illustrator is also vector based but when you save it or copy and paste, Flash reads it as a bmp usually or jpg which does not encorporate vectors, and basically smudges the vector lines together...

Back to flash, flash is vector based, and has a lot of the same features as illustrator. If you want true vectors without having to minimise your illustrator exports, make your thingy in flash itself and add a drop shadow by copying what you have, filling it with black and putting that on a layer underneath. And hey presto, you have a shadow.

Try not to use 3rd party software to do something which can easily be done in flash itself. Hope this answers your question. Maybe the next illustrator will have a vector exporter to flash, but that's a bit too much to be asking. You could always minimise your illustration however, it would hardly be noticed.

i wanted to make it a degrade shadow,
not a vector, but thank you for answering

Anything you make in illustrator is vector based, even if you're shadow has a gradient, flash can do that too!

the thing is that i wanted to do it on a special shape,
and with flash, you can make degrade , but ( i think)
that not a blending to simulate a drop shadow effect
like in illustrator, i tried to applied degrades (linear -radial) to a shape
that is not a rectangle or circle, and the shadows go,
wherever. But i i found a way on a tutorial on
internet to do what i wanted wit psd files(phong).
if there is a way in flash, it must be a lot better altough
but i couldn;t do it....
Thank you very much, anyway.

You can fake it in Flash using a gradient, tho it's tricky. The easiest way to do it would be using Freehand, where you could do a gradient/drop shadow and then bring it into Flash still in vector format. My suggestion, if you don't have Freehand, would be to create your elements in Fireworks or Photoshop with an alpha channel, then import those into Flash as PNGs (which will keep the alpha channel). Hope that helps...

Chris

i found a tutorial at phong.com,
about the png already. and i did it that way.
do you know which browsers png supports??
i'll give a look at freehand too.

cyn
thanks fig

well, i don't know what browsers would support PNG, but that's not really an issue as that's just what you'll import into Flash with. It'll be inside your Flash movie.

chris

yes, it's true, thank you.
cyn