importing a *.gif so it is editable

[Dayzee]

Howdy there

i am creating a colouring book and i have drawn numerous pictures on paper and i have scanned them in and saved them as *.gif. Now here comes the problem, I have imported them into flash and now i can not edit them.

Any idea how i can do this other then the time consuming and tedious task of tracing them with the mouse.

Thanx in advance

Dayzee

 

[blended]

Flash is not a pixel editor. Try using a combination of Photoshop and Illlustrator to get the parts you want. Photoshop will let you separate things out into layers, then you can put them into photoshop or Flash.

Blended

 

[davdesign]

hi dayzee

although you won't get all the functionality of photoshop et al, you can still edit it to an extent. When you import it, select it and press Ctrl+B to break it up into a bmp format. You can then select areas using the lasso/magic-wand tools etc to edit the areas you require.

dave

dave@pinkzeppelin.com

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[grepit]

I have found that having imported a gif such as you describe, a 'trace bitmap' will produce a new library item which can be edited nicely. try experimenting with the threshold values when tracing the bitmap until you get the desired result.
Hope this helps.
Andrew