Macromedia® Flash® MX 2004 Certified Designer Study Guide

Chapter 11. Bitmap and Vector Artwork

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bitmap Art 87

Vector Artwork 88

Using Trace Bitmap 89

Roundtrip Editing 90

Swapping Bitmaps 90

Runtime JPGs 91

Summary 93

Sample Questions 93

Visual assets make up the usable part of your interface. While you can draw most of what you want in Flash, often you'll import assets from other sources. When we talk about visual assets (as opposed to sounds, XML, and other things loaded into memory), we're generally talking about importing bitmapped artwork and vector artwork.

This chapter reviews the differences between those two types of art, and then focuses on some bitmap features that are particularly useful to a designer in need.

Bitmap Art

Bitmap artwork is anything saved in a pixel-type format. In bitmap ...