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Wierd Shapes from Photoshop

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Jun 10th 2004#152971 Report
Member since: Jul 16th 2002
Posts: 352
I have Photoshop 7.0 and Flash MX. In Photoshop, I have a wierd shape I made with the pen tool. I want to paste it into flash to make a shape tween between the shape and some text. The problem is, the wierd shape I have just shows up as a pic surrounded with a white box and it won't let me shape tween this way. Is there anyway I can transport this shape into flash and have it let me use the shape tween? Thank you.
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Jun 10th 2004#152975 Report
Member since: Apr 25th 2003
Posts: 1977
Why not just trace the shape in flash? Paste your image from PS, add new layer, and trace the shape with the pen tool. Then go and delete the orig. image from the library.

The reason its not working is flash is a vector program......PS is not. Your pasting an image (not a shape) and you cant shape-tween that. You can only motion/effects tween (like alpha/color etc) Only Illustrator has the ability to export/paste into flash.
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Jun 10th 2004#153005 Report
Member since: Mar 18th 2001
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yup...only possibility i can think of is to try to export from ps as an eps file, not sure offhand if flash will take that in as a vector format or not tho.

chris
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Jun 10th 2004#153006 Report
Member since: Nov 26th 2001
Posts: 2586
You can use transparent png's ... But you will still have a square image, just without a background... *edit but you would need to trace it to make it shape tween or you can use the bitmap2vector fill which works pretty well in flash. Especially if it's relatively simple.
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Jun 10th 2004#153007 Report
Member since: Mar 18th 2001
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yeah, i was thinking png too but as you'd have to trace it anyway it doesn't offer any real advantage over any other bitmapped format you might import.

chris
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