MX Flash 2004 Pro help

[WeHateCHS 0]

I'm a n00b at Flash. I just started out by making little stick people in MS Paint and importing them to MX. I'm wondering how I can get rid on the little white BG. I want to be able to put my stick people in front of other things. I just don't know how to do it in flash. Does anyone know what I mean?I'm talking about like when you can "overlay" images in paint theres a little botton at the very bottom on the toolbar thing. lol man i'm such a n00b!Any help? lol

[truvu17 0]

If im reading right, you want to use a background and have your stick-figures on top of the background correct? If so, I think its best you look into getting photoshop. You could do layers on top of your BG and edit + move it whever you want. Once you play around with it and learn how to use it, itll work wonders for you. MS Paint is okay, but I would never use it for editting, it sucks at it; all you could do is view images with it. I hope that solves your question...

[WeHateCHS 0]

Ya I have photoshop but since i was just making stick people i used Paint.

To give you an example of what I"m talking about: goto this website and watch the flash video (very short just takes a second to load)

http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

See how the stick figure has that white background, i dont want that. I want to make it transparent i guess you could say. You can see what I mean if you look at the bottom of the stick figure as it moves where the mountain touches him.

[icleric 0]

to remove the figures Background you simply have to Erase the Bg arroung it , you can do that using photoshop or Mspaint by setting your image view to 500% or higher and use the ERASER tool to erase the bg , once you have done that copy your figure and paste it into a transparent image and save it as gif [ or you better begin making the first step in a transparent image.

 

1-thats tha pic you want to remove its bg :

 

2-Erasing the Bg (200%) :

 

3-results (it should look like that , but u must take more care of the edges as i was making it quickly :

 

Hoping that it helped

[odomike 0]

hey ICLERIC that was a real nice tutorial you gave there. i believe that will work to remove the background from the images.

[Spectre 0]

icleric, you could just use the 'Magic Wand' to select the entire background, and then do what you like with it.

 

Nice pointers anyway.

[icleric 0]

thnx odomike ...and thnx Sauron , and yep you are totaly right - but that just goes for photoshop

[WeHateCHS 0]

Thank you! Finally can I make stick figure DEATH! MUHAHAHAhahah

[Spectre 0]

If you've ever visited Stick Death, they've got some pretty well-done (but very violent and adult-intended) stick-figure animations.

[WeHateCHS 0]

Ya I know

[iGuest 3]

lol stick deaths mean!Does any one here use swish????

[BoSZ 0]

cool that you got over thatbut remeberflash it self is a vector animation technolgy not a image editing softwarei use photoimpact (sort of photo shop but better ) with fireworks and flash as the end of the chain reaction to create active content

[icleric 0]

cool that you got over that
but remeber


flash it self is a vector animation technolgy

not a image editing software

i use photoimpact (sort of photo shop but better ) with fireworks and flash as the end of the chain reaction to create active content

i use photo impact too , thats the first time i see someone saying it is better than photoshop Nice choise anyway