Are FW blending modes preserved

I have a colored gradient bitmap image in "heat" mode over a
neutral black/gray image with white highlights, the latter of which
I want to stand out. In FW it looks great... Can I export these to
FL and expect the blending modes to remain intact?

Paevo Kelley wrote:
> I have a colored gradient bitmap image in "heat" mode
over a neutral
> black/gray image with white highlights, the latter of
which I want to stand
> out. In FW it looks great... Can I export these to FL
and expect the blending
> modes to remain intact?
>
I'm not sure about CS3, but as of Flash 8, these FW blend
modes were
supported:
Darken
Multiply
Lighten
Screen
Overlay
Hard light
Add
Subtract
Difference
Invert
Erase
I didn't hear much about the blend modes when CS3 came out,
so chances
are they are still the same. You can quickly check by Opening
Flash and
seeing if the mode you want is there. Generally, if the blend
modes
exists, it should work. Another option is to create a
flattened copy of
the blended image.
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