Monthly Archives: March 2010

Some thoughts on Web project workflow

By Hans Van de Velde | March 24, 2010

A successful digital marketing communication project equals a happy customer whose marketing goals are being excelled, thumbs up from end-users and delivery on time & budget. Behind the scenes, it also means working at a humanly reasonable stress level, learning exciting new things, getting a bunch of esteem from colleagues in the business, etc…
Let’s face [...]

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Workarounds for ghosting transparent areas in PNG images in Flash (on a 16-bit color display)

By Hans Van de Velde | March 2, 2010

See: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/128/tn_12804.html
Transparent areas are “ghosting” in PNG images in Flash when the monitor is running at 16-bit color display. Ghosting is a semi-transparent image appearing in an area which should be completely transparent.
This is a symptom of the way Flash dithers colors for 16 bit display.
For displaying alpha areas over solid colors, Flash uses a [...]

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