Bitmaps

Importing bitmaps

To bring the picture to Flash you simply need to select Menu-Import. It will invoke a File Selector, and you may browse your disks and find an appropriate file. Flash supports major graphic formats and usually there’s no problem to import an image.

If you do this procedure image will appear on the Stage at the layer and frame you are currently editing. Also every image is stored in Library with distinctive icons

If you select Menu-Import to Library – image goes only to Library and you need to drag it onto the Stage.

If you have several images with “numbered” names (like pic1.jpg, pic2.jpg, pic3.jpg) Flash may recognize a sequence and ask you to confirm if you are going to import all of them. Be careful with this option, since Flash may create additional frames on the timeline and put each image in separate frame. If it’s not what you intended to do – you may need to delete excessive frames

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