FLASH Question

[designerxboi]

Does anyone know anything about Macromedia flash movies? I'm trying to save a picture, or Frame so that I can edit the picture in Photoshop. I'm trying to make a Tshirt with a flash movie character.

Its an online movie so I'm not able to save it to my computer, or atleast I dont know if I can. I can print screen and get a printed picture, but it prints everything.

Any help would be appreciated

Also does anyone know of a good embroidery place that I can have just 1 thing ebroidered and not 12 things?

 

[Danzig]

I can print screen and get a printed picture, but it prints everything.

Do you have the FULL version of Flash? Not the player.

If not I would set the screen to 640 by 480 then do the print screen and then crop the item you want.

 

[designerxboi]

Do you have the FULL version of Flash? Not the player.

If not I would set the screen to 640 by 480 then do the print screen and then crop the item you want.

Hey Danzig,

No I just have the player that was I guess already installed on the computer when I bought it. So if I buy the actual software that people use to make the movies I can do more than just play, rewind, fast forward and print?

I could change my screen size, but I kinda want to edit the picture in photoshop and add some stuff, you know, fix it up.

If anyone has ever been to www.newgrounds.com, I'm trying to make a Tshirt with the salad fingers character on it.

 

[Danzig]

Hey Danzig,

No I just have the player that was I guess already installed on the computer when I bought it. So if I buy the actual software that people use to make the movies I can do more than just play, rewind, fast forward and print?

I could change my screen size, but I kinda want to edit the picture in photoshop and add some stuff, you know, fix it up.

If anyone has ever been to www.newgrounds.com, I'm trying to make a Tshirt with the salad fingers character on it.

http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/?promoid=home_prod_flash_082403

$500 for full version but if you are a student I think it could be less.

you can download it for 30 days for free. And you could go online and find a "crack" to make it work after 30 days but that would be stealing.

 

[designerxboi]

http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/?promoid=home_prod_flash_082403

$500 for full version but if you are a student I think it could be less.

you can download it for 30 days for free. And you could go online and find a "crack" to make it work after 30 days but that would be stealing.

Thanks I only need it for the one project and I'm sure it wouldnt take more than a day or two to figure out how to get the picture to save.

I'm starting Gibbs in October for Visual Communications so I'm sure they will have that software on their systems. Thanks for the info

 

[tirdun]

You could do a screen capture and dump that into Photoshop/paintshop.

Play the flash, click the PrtSc button and use CTRL+V to paste when you have your picture program open. I tested it and it works without a problem.

 

[designerxboi]

Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!

You could do a screen capture and dump that into Photoshop/paintshop.

Play the flash, click the PrtSc button and use CTRL+V to paste when you have your picture program open. I tested it and it works without a problem.

And Thank you!!!!

That worked!! I knew that prntscreen button was good for something. Now I dont have to download a 100MB trial of a software program I could never afford. Thanks Again!!!

 

[tirdun]

You're welcome.

Danzig also mentioned the screen capture, just thought I'd spell out how to do it. Most people never pay attention to the PrtSc/SysRq button, and the ones who do tend to get

If you have Photoshop or Paintshop they also have capture tools built in, which essentially do the same thing, only they allow for a little more control over what you get (like hiding the mouse or limiting size). If you're going to use this a lot, I'd learn how to use that. In Paintshop it's File->Import->Screen, I don't have Photoshop, but I'm sure its similar.

 

[designerxboi]

Sorry

Do you have the FULL version of Flash? Not the player.

If not I would set the screen to 640 by 480 then do the print screen and then crop the item you want.

I'm sorry Danzig, I wasnt paying attention, I thought you meant I should print the screen, not copy with print screen. Thank you for the idea too, even though I caught it late.

 

[designerxboi]

You're welcome.

Danzig also mentioned the screen capture, just thought I'd spell out how to do it. Most people never pay attention to the PrtSc/SysRq button, and the ones who do tend to get

If you have Photoshop or Paintshop they also have capture tools built in, which essentially do the same thing, only they allow for a little more control over what you get (like hiding the mouse or limiting size). If you're going to use this a lot, I'd learn how to use that. In Paintshop it's File->Import->Screen, I don't have Photoshop, but I'm sure its similar.

I'll check that out in photoshop when I get home. I have the old version of Paintshop here at work and cant find the import option.

 

[Kain99]

Internet theft is a crime.... No question!

 

[designerxboi]

Internet theft is a crime.... No question!

Whose stealing? I'm trying to make a tshirt from a flash movie that isnt copyrighted off of www.newgrounds.com, if its free for people to download and there is no copyrights because its just something someone made for fun, not profit, than whats the problem?

 

[tirdun]

Regardless of how free something is, the author has implicit copyright unless explicitly transferred to the public domain. So whatever you are copying, it's still somebody else's.

However, the fair use specifications of the copyright act give you permission to use a small part of a copyrighted item for personal or educational, non-profit use. Making a single copy and putting it on a shirt that you bought is fair use. If you made 20 and sold them, it's not fair use, its infringement. MP3s violate this because its the whole item, not a single part.

 

[designerxboi]

Regardless of how free something is, the author has implicit copyright unless explicitly transferred to the public domain. So whatever you are copying, it's still somebody else's.

However, the fair use specifications of the copyright act give you permission to use a small part of a copyrighted item for personal or educational, non-profit use. Making a single copy and putting it on a shirt that you bought is fair use. If you made 20 and sold them, it's not fair use, its infringement. MP3s violate this because its the whole item, not a single part.

no I'm just making 1 shirt for myself and I'll probably change the frame and just cut out the character from the background. The videos I'm taking the character from are on about 6 different websites, is that what you mean when you say 'explicitly transferred to the public domain'?

 

[tirdun]

Essentially, if the author/owner of a piece of Intellectual Property (art, books, music, poems, etc) doesn't explicitly release the copyright, it's considered to be copyrighted. In other words, if there's no message saying "in the public domain" or "wave all copyright", then its generally copyrighted.

The "fair use" part of copyright law, however, gives people access to copyrighted material in certain cases. Limited, personal, non-profit use is one of them. So if you bought a book, you can make copies of parts of it. As long as you don't photocopy the whole thing, try to sell any of it or use any of it for something that you write, then you're covered. You can also parody items, use parts items in education or for criticism.

There are also times when things are considered too generic, basic or widely distributed to be covered by copyright. For example, certain uses of language, musical chords, and even computer programming structures are uncopyrightable because they are fundemental to language, music or programming.