Transparent background in flash

Hi, I am just learning how to use flash and I want to import
a word that is a graphic from Photoshop, in Photoshop it has a
trandparent background but once I bring it into flash to work on
it, it has a solid white background, How do I make it transparent
so that only the letters are solid?

export from P'shop as PNG-24 format. try a search of this
forum first - this has been asked hundreds
of times here - but for now, PNG-24 is your best bet - GIF
also supports transparency but that is a
lossy format.
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TeamJ. wrote:
> Hi, I am just learning how to use flash and I want to
import a word that is a
> graphic from Photoshop, in Photoshop it has a
trandparent background but once I
> bring it into flash to work on it, it has a solid white
background, How do I
> make it transparent so that only the letters are solid?
>
>
>
>

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