[Resolved] [Resolved] the scanline look

[dj_cel]

hello, i've got a problem with the scanline graphic treatment. i created this bar with the scanline look, and it looks great at 1024x768, but at 800x600 the lines aren't even. what can i do to solve this? the scanlines are 2px tall, with a 4px gap between, then i used a gausian blur of 1 px to smooth.

[Raverix]

Here's a stupid question? What program are you using, and also what are you using to view the image at the different resolutions?

[dj_cel]

i used photoshop initially to create the graphic. in terms of resolution, i created a simple html doc with 100% params to fill the swf in the entire browser window. when i view the site with a screen res of 1024x768, the graphic looks the way it was intended, but when i change to 800x600, it looks pretty bad. check it out here to see what i'm talking about:

http://www.real-estate-postcards.com...ard/index.html

also, you'll notice that the text gets blurred at 800x600, do you know why and what i can do to fix this? thanx for your help!

[Raverix]

Yeah, I see what you're talking about.... hmmmm.... This isn't an easy one because the problem lies in the way that flash scales your images. Only suggestion I could give you would be to stick with one resolution. get your move to 775 x 550, and leave it centered on the page, and it should look good in any resolution. Sorry if this isn't what you wanted to hear, hopefully someone else has a better solution for you.

[dj_cel]

thanks for your help, the way i found out about the sizing was through turtle shell, you ever heard of that? this designer gave these specs to follow when designing a movie that is supposed to fill the browser window and i have been using them as a guideline, basically the movie is 780x440.

i really appreciate your help, thanx.

[tomloudon]

You will have to draw the lines in flash as vectors because the image wil only look right in the resolution in it's origional dimensions. when you scale it by a percentage it changes dimension and has to cut bits out to do it.

Hope that helped

[dj_cel]

ok, i figured that would be the end result, the buttons i originally created in illustrator, the photoshoped them before flash, but eventualy, i had to just flash them because of a similar problem, i thought it would be different in this case because it was just lines and not curves. thanks to everyone for your help!