General Tips & Techniques:

When importing images which have been edited in Photoshop, use the PhotoCaster Xtra. If you do not, you will probably get white fringing (also known as a "halo") around your images. Another way to get past this is to set the options in Photoshop such that it will not anti-alias images.

Wherever possible go with 8-bit (256) color or your Director file will become huge in virtually no time at all.

RAM usage on the target user's machine will increase considerably if your production uses a lot of bitmaps and the user's display is set to > 8-bit color depth. While not necessarily a fatal problem with Windows NT or '95, this can cause substantial problems with Win3 or -- especially -- Mac machines. ("Especially" Mac because the MacOS does not use the same kind of dynamic memory allocation scheme Windows does and the default Projector RAM partition of 4 Mb will probably not be enough if you have lots of bitmap graphics onscreen.)

When remapping graphics from one palette to another (i.e., Mac to Windows or 16-bit to 8-bit) within Director you might get some odd extra light-grey pixels at the extreme right edges of your graphic, but only if it's not square or rectangular. You can either erase these superfluous pixels in the Paint window or choose the "Remap" radio button rather than the default "Dither" button when choosing to remap these images.

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