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loy-bob Posts: 22 From: Downingtown, PA, USA Status: offline	"dynamic" template graphics - 12/3/2001 16:02:51 I bought the "dynamic" template from Outfront and I'm trying to change the pictures that are on the top navigation buttons (Home, Search, etc.) I figured out the Javascript that makes them light up, but, first of all, Image Composer won't edit the .jpg files, it says they're the wrong format. If I convert them to .gifs, it will edit them, but I can't pull them apart and put in a new picture. I've tried pasting a new picture over the old one, but it looks terrible on the site. I'd also like to change the text, but haven't figured out how to do this at all. Maybe you have to stay with the pictures and text that comes with it, but I sure would like to put in my own pictures and text. They look great the way they light up. Any ideas from anyone? Thanks


LB Posts: 5551 From: Montana USA Status: offline	RE: "dynamic" template graphics - 12/4/2001 16:08:52 http://www.outfront.net/dynamic/home.htm Check to see if Image Composer is set as your default graphic program for jpgs. Tools > Options > Configure Editors. .jpg > add/modify Linda Frontpage Web Templates http://www.rubymarketing.com/templates (in reply to loy-bob)


Thomas Brunt Posts: 6109 Joined: 6/6/1998 From: St. Matthews SC USA Status: online	RE: "dynamic" template graphics - 12/4/2001 16:40:46 I don't believe that Image Composer is capable of delivering the kind of quality you're looking for. We can handle that for you for a basic site finishing fee of $75, however. t (in reply to loy-bob)


abbeyvet Posts: 5095 From: Kilkenny Ireland Status: offline	RE: "dynamic" template graphics - 12/5/2001 13:16:05 Sorry Tom but I must leap to the defence of my beloved and much maligned Image Composer here. I have yet to see ANYONE do ANYTHING that I cannot do with IC. Here are samples of the buttons edited in IC, about 5 minutes work once you are familiar with it: I defy anyone to say that IC is incapable of producing quality images. Here is how I did it, it seems long and complicated but takes very little time once you get familiar with IC (taking any button as an example). Make your on and off images 1. Open the image and cut and paste into IC 2. Make 2 copies of it. 3. Highlight one copy and click the crop tool. Crop it carefully so that only the picture bit above the button remains. 4. Take your new image and crop it to exactly the same size as the image created in 3. Make 4 copies. 5. Take 2 of the copies and fill them with the colour of the button part of the original image. 6. Select each of these in turn and do the following: a. Go to Effects, patterns, stripe. b.Open the colour picker dialogue box and pick a paler purple (I went about 2/3 down the slider on the cutom colour window but could have gone a little darker now that I look at it). c. Apply the stripe effect with your settings at at 1 and 1. 7. Take the first of these mages and place it over one of your new images. Keeping the striped image highlighted choose effects>Photographic>Transparency and apply it until you have the desired tansparancy. 8. Now select both the striped image you jest made and one of the new images you made in step 4 and do Arrange>Align>Centers and then 'Flatten Selection' 9. Get your second striped image and zoom to about 500%. Choose the cutout tool with the 'Select color region' tab open. Set search mode to global. Click with the wand on a paler stripe and select erase. Go back t0 100% 10. Repeat steps 7 and 8 with this striped image and your other new image from step 4. You have now got an on and off version of the pics. Now to the buttons. 1. Make a copy of one the original images from the template. 2. Where the text is create a filled rectangle in the same colour as the button to cover the writing. Select this rectangle and the image and flatten the selection. 3. I used arial, size 11 bold font with an extra space between the leters. Write what you like, put it on your button and again flatten the group. Putting it together. 1. Make two copies of the button with the new text. 2. Position your new on image on one and your new off image on the other, flatten them and save. On the saving, I tend to save without any compression in IC (ie choose save for the web and in the very last screen untick the compression box) and compress later using the jpeg optimiser which is available here: www.xat.com I bet that seems horribly complicated but it took me about a quarter of the time that it took to type this! If you are struggling to get this down in IC then Toms offer looks like very good value - but IC can do it. Image Composer Rules!!! Katherine ++++++++++++++++++++++++ www.inkkdesign.com "Dogs have owners, cats have staff" Meeeooow! Edited by - abbeyvet on 12/05/2001 13:29:20 (in reply to loy-bob)


bbrunt Posts: 124 From: SC USA Status: offline	RE: "dynamic" template graphics - 12/5/2001 13:38:58 Well done, Katherine!! bonniebrunt@earthlink.net Outfront Graphic Designer (in reply to loy-bob)


bc Posts: 4 Joined: 12/5/2001 From: Status: offline	RE: "dynamic" template graphics - 12/5/2001 13:42:43 Thanks - I had the same problem with jpg formats - Your copy and paste cure was fabulously simple. I have, and use Photoshop, but image composer is much simpler, and I learned the key was that by default it compresses the jpg too much. Edited by - abbeyvet on 12/05/2001 13:50:36 (in reply to loy-bob)


abbeyvet Posts: 5095 From: Kilkenny Ireland Status: offline	RE: "dynamic" template graphics - 12/5/2001 13:47:27 Yeah, I have and (occasionally) use PSP and Fireworks but frankly find I can usually do what I need faster and more effectively in IC. I really do believe it is about the most underrated piece of software in existance and I think it is nothing short of a tragedy that Microsoft have apparantly dropped it and that it will not be developed further. btw bc I just edited your post to remove the quote of my entire earlier reply - reckon that was a slip of the finger!! Katherine ++++++++++++++++++++++++ www.inkkdesign.com "Dogs have owners, cats have staff" Meeeooow! Edited by - abbeyvet on 12/05/2001 13:50:00 (in reply to loy-bob)


loy-bob Posts: 22 From: Downingtown, PA, USA Status: offline	RE: "dynamic" template graphics - 12/5/2001 17:24:53 I did it - I did it!! Thank you so much for the IC tutorial. It was such a tremendous help. Having someone else do it for you is good, but learning to do it yourself is great! Give a man a fish, yadda yadda yadda. Thanks again and again and again, Loy Miller (in reply to loy-bob)


abbeyvet Posts: 5095 From: Kilkenny Ireland Status: offline	RE: "dynamic" template graphics - 12/5/2001 17:34:02 Good job! My instructions were obviously better than I thought they were - it is always easier to do these things than it is to explain how you did them. Glad it worked out for you. Katherine ++++++++++++++++++++++++ www.inkkdesign.com "Dogs have owners, cats have staff" Meeeooow! (in reply to loy-bob)


Jego Posts: 551 From: Near Brampton, Ontario, Canada Status: offline	RE: "dynamic" template graphics - 12/5/2001 22:17:52 Who's da woman?! Katherine is! quote: I really do believe it is about the most underrated piece of software in existance and I think it is nothing short of a tragedy that Microsoft have apparantly dropped it and that it will not be developed further. I absolutely agree with you. I love I.C. (And of course it's very handy to have you, who has taken it to the "nth degree", around!) Jego (in reply to loy-bob)


Bill Nicol Posts: 1445 From: Springfield IL USA Status: offline	RE: "dynamic" template graphics - 12/6/2001 13:44:20 Amen to that Jego. I've just recently installed IC, and am beginning to find out that it's pretty darned powerful. And I agree with Katherine that it's almost criminal that MS has dropped it. Bagpipes, there's only nine notes, how hard can it be? (in reply to loy-bob)


jflower Posts: 19 From: Longmont, CO USA Status: offline	RE: "dynamic" template graphics - 12/7/2001 1:17:53 Any thoughts on how I can get my IC 1.0 up to 1.5? I got this from an old FP97 I bought long ago but never used. It used to be a free upgrade on MS's site, but about the only thing I have come up with is to buy an old copy of FP2000 from somewhere like EBay. Thanks john John Flower (in reply to loy-bob)


godshall2 Posts: 370 From: Telford PA USA Status: offline	RE: "dynamic" template graphics - 12/22/2001 13:37:57 Hi Katherine, >I have yet to see ANYONE do ANYTHING that I cannot do with IC. Hmm, sounds like a challenge. Your IC against my Photoshop... I love challenges, do you? he he:) Troy \| www.aplustemplates.com � (in reply to loy-bob)


abbeyvet Posts: 5095 From: Kilkenny Ireland Status: offline	RE: "dynamic" template graphics - 12/23/2001 17:44:26 Done. So who is gonna set the challenge???? Katherine ++++++++++++++++++++++++ www.inkkdesign.com "Dogs have owners, cats have staff" Meeeooow! (in reply to loy-bob)