Images and Photos

Incorporating files in GIF and JPEG format tends to increase the movie size.

If photos are needed, here is some advice you can follow:

• Avoid animating them.
  
  
Animating photos requires a lot of processor resources and can hinder the flow of the movie as a whole.


• Compress the photos as much as possible - inside Flash, too.
  
  
Select Options > Properties from the Library window to convert your images into GIF or PNG format, or to compress the JPG images again.



Figure 2: From this window, you can selectively compress the different bitmap images


• When creating images, scale them appropriately, keeping only the useful elements and deleting all the unnecessary pixels.
  
  

A last piece of advice - and the most logical one. If your Flash movie is a photo gallery, find a way to design it using JavaScript or DHTML. It will be smaller and quicker to download!