Editing a bitmap??

[boxing_dirty]

I've noticed on flash websites that bitmap portraits are not square boxes, but that they are the outline of the portrait. In other words, no background. Whenever I import a photo from Photoshop, I get a background, even if it is transparent. Does anyone know how to take the background off of a bitmap, or know what I'm talking about?

Thanks!

[tublu]

maybe this mite help http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Ge...14/index.shtml

[fizheye]

Save a interlanced PNG other then BMP in photoshop,
Flash work pretty well with PNG it's even better then BMP.

[getawebsite]

Draw an outline around your portrait on the layer above your portrait, fill it - delete the lines or select all and convert lines to fills to save some memory and then mask your portrait.

[boxing_dirty]

Thank you so much Tublu!! You are now my hero. Curious about one thing though. When I play my .swf file, some of the bitmaps are pixelated. Will it do this after I publish it?

Thanks again!