make an image transparent

In Flash5, Is there a way to make an image that has a gradient transparent? When I select the image and try to make it transparent it makes the whole image one color. Also I tried importing a jpg image and making it transparent but that doesn't work either.

Hi, i ran into that problem a few times. I dont think theres a "real" fix to that, maybe I'm wrong though and some one will enlighten us both later on :¬).

I try different methods. One is to cheat and put an other movie on top of the gradient ani. Say the background was blue and the gradient was green to yellow. The new movie would be transparent blue to a low level. That kinda looks right. Then you can animate that layer instead. I would of tried out somethings and then posted the results but I'm on MX now. If there arent to many images you could try tracing. That would break the image up and allow you to make it transparent. Alternatively you could doctor the original image and make it appear that its transparent prior to importing it into flash. What happens if you make the movie containing the image transparent. I'm pretty sure it works that way.

Sorry for the incoherence, I just woke up
-Tann