paste an orange?

[fokkini]

Hi guys.
I am quite new to flash an am having great fun and happy with my results so far but one question keeps limiting my creativety:

-How do i import/paste just one little selection from a photoshop pic?
I have got this picture with a whole lot of fruit but want just the orange in my animation.
Whatever i try i always get a white frame/canvas around it in flash.
deleting the background does not help.

It can not be that hard i supose? Do i have to work with masks or transparent backgrounds or schould it be done via illustrator?
Thanks a lot in advance.

[kosta]

I'm not a guru, but I'll try to help you.

You can do it in a few steps. First, cut precisely your orange and paste it to a new photoshop document. Set its background to transparent (or try save for web -> gif-> transparent). If you have a one-color background in your animation, you can set the background color in photoshop to it. I hope it works

[dooch]

yes, tranparent gif or png is the answer, unless you mask it in flash with another object/colour.

[fokkini]

Thanx a lot, works fine ,but stil can not use the eraser tool on it.
Any ideas way and how to fix that?

[kosta]

Well, as far as I know, you can't edit an imported image in Flash (except from changing the color if made as an MC).

[dooch]

nah, no editting the imported gif direct in flash.

[Solitary R@F]

U can crop it using the Magic wand or the Lasso tool.
To use those features ( & also the eraser tool) just click on the Image U wanna edit & then rite click(on the mouse) & hit break apart. it'll work just fine after that.