Forum: Photoshop


Subject: Transparency issues

ArtWorker opened this issue on May 27, 2004 ยท 6 posts


ArtWorker posted Thu, 27 May 2004 at 10:11 AM

Here's the deal. I've been hired to create a figure in Poser for a series of animations. These animations will be put on web pages. The content BEHIND the animation has to be visible, so the animation itself has to have a transparent background. The best way I have found to do this is as follows: Render the animation out of Poser as a series of still images. Bring the images into Photoshop, and export them as GIF89A files, with the background color made transparent. Bring these GIFs into Flash, and re-assemble them into a movie. Export this movie using Flash's Transparent Window Mode (Publish Settings dialog box). Build a table having a background image consisting of whatever screenshot I need. Position the Flash movie in this table using CSS. It's a rather complex algorithm, but it has the advantage of working. My question is, does anyone have a better way of doing this? My client wants to be able to change the screenshot from time to time, without necessarily changing the anmation -- so there is no point in putting the screenshot into a layer in Flash. Bigger file, anyway. I'm posting this in the Photoshop and Poser forums just to see what sort of response I may get from different communities. Thanks in advance, folks!