Importing Graphics into Flash CS3

Video Transcript

"This is Bill Macpherson for Expert Village in this clip I'm going to be talking about importing graphic layers into flash. So what you want to do is you want to go under file, import, import to stage, I'm going to choose our pro shop file, hit import. As you can see we have our background there and here's our background art that we have in photoshop, now that you selected you have different options up here, we're going to bring it in as a flattened bitmap image. Now you can choose your compression settings if you like lossy or lossless, and it will also calculate the bitmap size for you. Down here we're going to choose convert layers to flash layers on key frames, we'll hit okay and it will bring in our graphic. Now this graphic here you can do whatever you like with it you could convert it to a symbol or you can leave it just as is. You can go to your library you can see that it brought in it still has it in group there's your graphic and up in your timeline, it also has it as a group background art layer. In the next clip I'll show you how to import graphic layers with styles inside flash."