Photoshop 6 layers into Flash 5

[eddiesshorts]

Can you take layers from photoshop 6 into flash 5?
Is there an easy way to do this instead of making a copy of each animation piece in the photoshop file. I am getting tired of making a seperate file each time for each piece. Such as same head but have 8 different layers in which the mouth is moving.
Thanks

 

[pbb]

Eddie,
I think you'll have more luck it you posted this question in the Flash forum....
Good luck

P.

 

[mganeles]

Flash 5 does not recognize the .psd file format. If you try to import a phosothop.psd, you'll get a box saying flash doesn't recognized blah blah blah would you like to import it as quicktime...If you say yes, you will only import one layer. All the layers will not be imported. I am not certain about flash, but there's a product called photocaster which enables you to import .psd directly into castmembers in Director. I don't know if it works for flash5 but I should find out! Next stop: photocaster web page (it's a plug-in). If you save all your layers and name the sequentially, flash can recognize and import a sequential series.

 

[mganeles]

PS just curious but why do you want to import bitmaps into flash? they can be memory hogs and your files can get quite large with these types of files...is there a particular reason you want to bring in several layers of bitmaps?

 

[jaybirdxkj]

The only thing i could think of to do if importing a psd doesnt work is to try to save the original file as an adobe illistrator file and try importing that into flash. One other thing you might try would be to export the layers in adobe image ready to a gif sequence and then importing that into flash but i dont know how the quality would turn out with that. Good luck!

 

[Guest_imported]

How can I bring avi files in flash movie

 

[zefir]

The only possibility to transfer PSD contents to non-Adobe
programs: Flatten the layers. Save uncompressed as TIFF,
BMP, EPS or if it cannot be avoided as GIF or JPEG.
Some of these formats should be readable by Flash.
GIF is not suitable for Photos or other halftone graphics
(256 colors only). JPEG is lossy. TIFF LZW compressed
is lossless, but not readable by all applications. ----Gernot

 

[webmantis]

save the psd....
open in fireworks...
export to flash...
you'll have options...
there you can select to explort layers/frames to flash...
open flash.. import the file you exported from fireworks...
voila!

sincerely, GB<><