Dynamically loaded images look colourless.

Question

Hi!

I'm working on a page that needs dynamic jpg loading. My
problem is that all the pictures loaded from a folder (that is on
server) look a litle desaturated or colourless. Black looks like
gray and red is nod as red as it's in original picture. I can't
figure out the reason. Is flash lowering the quality of dynamically
loaded jpgs?

Im using forceSmoothing = true on MovieClip that loads images
and loading is done by using instance of MovieClipLoader class. I
have set JPEG quality to 100% in publish settings, didn't help.
This problem is really driving me crazy. If you have some solution
or idea why this desaturation is happening, please let me
know.

crazyjoemilan · Answer

I'm not sure why the desaturating is happening. I'd check to see if its local. (ie- try your .swf on other monitors/computers).

A fix (of sorts) would be to use the colorMatrix class. I believe Kirupa.com has a good tutorial on how it all works. Sadly, I don't have the time to run and link it right now, but the colorMatrix (it might actually be called a variant of that) class takes a bitmap, and messes with it pixel by pixel. --IE you can up contrast, saturation, filter colors, etc.

Really, that is a "solution", but colorMatrix is also taxing on flashplayer, so if you try to animate an image running that filter, its gonna bog you down (unless its small)

HH

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