Make Photoshop and Flash Fast Friends

When you know the tricks, Photoshop and Flash can integrate nicely, saving you lots of time and trouble. Two videos show you how.
Written by Michael Ninness on August 7, 2006

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These video tutorials are excerpted from "Photoshop CS2 and Flash 8 Integration."

Discover the most efficient methods for importing content created with Photoshop CS2 into Flash Professional 8, while maintaining as much of the original appearance as possible. In the "PSD to Flash" video, you'll learn what happens when you bring a layered Photoshop file into Flash 8. In "Photoshop CS2 Tips for Image Quality," you'll find out how to downsample large images so they look as good as possible in the final output.

These videos are QuickTime movies. You can download the files by option- or right clicking on the links and saving the ".mov" file to your hard disk. Or you can simply click the following links to play them:

To follow along, you can use your own files or download the sample files. Just beware that the sample files are a whopping 32MB:

If you do not have QuickTime installed, you can get it here:

Excerpted from "Photoshop CS2 and Flash 8 Integration" © lynda.com. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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both of the movie links go to the same file. this needs to be fixed before I can comment on them.

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