SHIP2ME PSD2FLA
Anyone tried PSD2FLA yet? Having just completed an intense 
Flash TV production with monsterous Photoshop backgrounds, this software sounds to me like a steal. It allows users to export a layered PSD directly into Flash, while maintaining the layer structure. According to the website, once you’ve installed the plug-in you just click ’save as Flash.’ PSD2FLA was created by Medialab, who are out of Longmont, Colorado, a town where I once worked as a Budweiser representative. Hmmm… can’t remember why I quit.
Anyway, would love to hear from the audience on this one. Seems to fall into the ‘must-have’ category for TV productions, right alongside SWF2Video, but let’s hear what you guys think.
Thanks to Jerry De Jesus for the link. Jerry and I just finished working together on ‘Coconut Fred’s Fruit Salad Island’ for Kids’WB! He’s one of the masters of Flash animation in the Los Angeles area, and he also happens to be a witch with the Photoshop BG renders. Spooky good. Check out some of his title cards from ‘Fred.’
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December 29th, 2005 at 8:28 pm
For i use macromedia fireworks, i used to create using photoshop, but photoshop is not for the web.Photoshop is photoedition.
Even the most simple task of creating a rectangle with a custom border and resizeing it is 20+ times faster in firworks.
Then the export to flash is smooth as hell.
Photoshop, using these kind of tools that you mention is offering a quicker way to integrate with flash, but it is far away from fireworks, too far.
Hope that adobe would really start vectorize that environment more than it is now(in the way of fireworks, not in the way of freehand or corel draw).
December 29th, 2005 at 9:46 pm
this should help out some! Since right now i saw out all my layers as Png and then import them all into flash. This saves me the hassle of doing that.
December 29th, 2005 at 10:07 pm
it makes some huge files, but it does everthing it claims, and does it well. I have been using it for at least 3 years. good stuff.
December 31st, 2005 at 5:06 am
Oh man, how this would have helped.
Next time right!
May 11th, 2007 at 3:18 am
It does what it says, but the filesizes are huge, it doesnt clip the unnecessary transparency (at least in the version I have used), some colours of blue tend to throw it off, and any large HD sized backgrounds usually cause errors or dont convert properly.
Similar things can be done with Photoshop’s JavaScript interface and Flash’s JSFL. Both of which can then be automated.
Just my 2cents.