BGTrans in Lassie Director
I am trying to import pictures into my Lassie project. When I -*test*-('") my project, I can see the blotchy remains of the background of my picture files. I mainly use Fireworks to create images. What is the best format and background color to use so that Lassie can better remove the background. I tried the bright green as recommended and still the results were not very good. Thanks! :)

I assume that you are using Lassie Director? LassieAS does not have native bg-transparency handling (it's all handled though Flash graphics). So, assuming Lassie Director and without a screen shot to base this on, I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark and say that you're using JPG images...? Your description of "blotchy remains" sounds a lot like JPG compression artifacts. JPG is a compressed file format that works by condensing blocks of colored pixels based on a mean value. This often leads to subtle color changes in certain blocks of pixels. And since Director transparency works by knocking out a single absolute color value, close doesn't cut it. You'd see the JPG artifacts that had been push slightly off-hue. My suggestion in documentation for Lassie Director is to import everything as .BMP images. They're uncompressed, and were a graphics standard back in the hayday of Director. TIFF is the new uncompressed standard today, but don't use those. Director often misinterprets the TIFF color model. Hope that helps.

Oh, BTW: I'm moving this to the Technical Support forum. Please post further technical questions of this nature there.

I am impressed....
Wow, you are very good. All of your guesses about my attempts are true. From using Director right down to the jpg format. I will try again tonight based on this new advice. Thanks! 8)

LOL... I'm no stranger to the frustration of graphics. I ran into all these same problems myself back in the day :)