Confused... JPG with Transparency in Flash?

Hi,
I am working in Flash 8 on a PC. I have a cut out image of a
person's head, that is sitting on a layer above a background
graphic on a lower layer. When I look at the head image's bitmap
properties, it tells me it is a JPG (I pasted it in from
Fireworks). Q. :: How can the image have transparent areas (i.e.
the cut out region around the head) when it is a JPG? It works
well, but I want to make the head image an external JPG, and can't
figure out how to get te same effect. (I don't want to use GIF as
the image of the head is a photographic image.)
Perhaps it is possible to import a PNG into Flash with a
transparency? ... in Flash 6 player?
Thanks for your help.
Geoff

> Perhaps the file is in JPG form with a black
> background, and Flash knows to make the black an alpha
channel somehow?
Yes .. that is what it does.
When you imported the image in a format that must have had
transparency,
Flash was able to get that set up internally.
For those who want to know more, published SWF files can only
have four
image formats in them
1) zip compressed 8-bit image (with or without alpha)
2) zip compressed 16-bit image (no alpha)
3) zip compressed 32-bit image (with or without alpha)
4) jpeg compressed image (with or without zipped alpha)
Jeckyl

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> Where do I do this configuration ? In Flash or in
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> Best regards
>
> Bruno Alecrim
> Rio de janeiro - Brasil
>
>

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Hi
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And checked the Flatten (Make self-contained).
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