How can I fix jagged images & text in Flash?

Flash is vector based (meaning you can zoom without loosing quality), an image is not a vector though. You probably already know that, but I don’t know what you would mean otherwise. Do you have a link to the flash banner for us? It’s probably best to link to the swf, not the main site because your question might get flagged for promotion otherwise.

use gif images, jpegs can distort at times. specially if you are running jpegs with circles in them in full screen mode or something.

Try cropping the image to fit more precisely instead of using say a Transform option, i have had this happen from time time even working out of Flash, i noticed that if im using an image that has been taken or rendered in a lager size than it should be, then it will look jagged around the edges of the object or text, after i re-size the image it looks better, instead of doing a free-trans to make it fit. Also poison is right, try using .png or .gif files while working in Flash..

Thanks so much for your replies! OutOfTheBlue – you were spot on, the images I was using were larger and I used the transform tool in Flash to fit them in. I made all the images the exact size and now it works perfectly. Must have been trying to take the easy way out, of course the file is much small now as well :)

@OutOfTheBlue seems to have hit the nail on the head with this. Photoshop and Flash get along better now than they used to, but you still have to play by Flash’s rules if you want to get nice-looking results.

As people have said, make sure your bitmap images are the exact size (in pixels) you want them to be in the Flash product. Resizing bitmap images will almost always lead to that jagged look, even if the proportions are the same.

Good luck with your website!