Various layer blend modes in Fireworks 8 do not remain editable in Flash 8
Issue
Designers may find out that some blend modes created in Macromedia Fireworks 8 are automatically flattened on objects such as bitmaps and vectors upon import into Macromedia Flash 8.
Note: The basic install of Flash does not support Blend Modes. Blend Modes are only supported in Flash Professional.
Reason
Fireworks 8 introduced several new blend modes, which did not make it into Flash 8 Professional.
Solution
Flash 8 supports the blend modes specified below when copying and pasting objects from Fireworks to Flash or importing Fireworks PNG files with blend modes.
- Add
- Normal
- Darken
- Difference
- Erase
- Hard Light
- Lighten
- Multiply
- Screen
- Subtract
- Overlay
- Invert
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