Flash PNG grayness
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- thismanslife
When using transparent PNGs in Flash, I'm getting a grayness in the very subtle areas of transparency, and no it's not because of jpeg compression when publishing, it's visible in Flash before publishing.
I've also tried opening the PNGs back up in Photoshop and there's no problem.
As an example, it's most visible when using a PNG gradient of white (100% white to 0% white) on top of a white background... as the gradient fades out, it's slightly gray. In theory a white gradient on top of white shouldnt be visible at all...
Anyone know if there's a fix for this?... I'm guessing it's just one of those things that can't be avoided (other than not using very soft transparency in PNGs!)
- skelly0
how are you saving your PNGs?
- thismanslife0
"Save for web" with Photoshop... but it's not that, as I said, if I re-open them in Photoshop, they're fine. It's when they're imported into Flash that the graying seems to happen.
I should add it's veeery subtle, but it's there, and makes the graphics look slightly dull / dirty around the fringed / graduated alpha edges. I can live with it, but it's really annoying.
- thismanslife0
Great folio BTW Skelly! :)
- skelly0
Is "embed ICC color profile" checked in the "save for web" window. if it is, the picture will look fine every time you open it in photoshop, but will look different in other apps, depending on how they handle the color profile.
i get funny results saving PNGs for web, and sometimes just doing a normal Save As solves it.
- thismanslife0
Good thinking... I checked but you only seem to get an option for ICC with jpegs, not PNGs... so don't think it's that.
Bummer, I'm pretty sure it's just a "quirk" of Flash.
:(
- visualplane0
I usually first save for web in photoshop as a png-24. Then I bring it into fireworks, and export it as a png-8 transparency. It reduces the file size tremendously, and the transparency looks fine as it originally did in photoshop.
- uberdesigner0
speaking of grayness. tom cruise was pretty damn good in collateral. not a bad flick at all
- mr_flaco0
This should shed some light on the color shift:
- thismanslife0
Cool, thanks, i'll give that a look...