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abbeyvet -> RE: Photoshop/ImageReady slices (10/26/2002 10:34:35)
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I think, and I am not putting words into his mouth, that waht Thomas means is that the code generated is a little restricive and/or depending on the situation unnecessarily bloated.
What image ready does, essentially, is chop up your image and place it in a table with cells and so on created to fit all the bits of the image together again on the page. Which is fine, as far as it goes.
If the image is, say, the full width of the top of a page designed to be a fixed width, then this table could simply become the top table on the page. However if your page has a fluid design the table will have to be integrated into that degisn somehow, probably as a nested table, and made to fit with the design as it expands and contracts. Trickier. It may well be that placing the bits of the image into cells and tables you make yourself will give you less code, less need to nest and so on.
One thing that all these slicers do is slice in regular paralel lines, so that if the image is sliced first into three parts one on top of the other then these parts will be sliced into parts in the same way as each other, eg is the top one needed to be sliced into tree images side by side then the other two images would be sliced along the same lines. This is not always necessarily what you need or want.
I tend to slice myself a lot of the time without using anything much to do it for me, and then reassemble in a table made for the purpose. There are a couple of reasons for this. One is that there are often parts of an image that might be better as a gif and other parts best as a jpg and I want to extract the various parts as efficiently as I can to save in the relevant format. I can easily do this if I slice manually and create the table manually.
It is tricky to get things so that everything lines up and sits properly on a background. Also you may want to have part of an image in an include page and the rest of it on the main page.
This is HORRIBLY difficult to explain and would probably be really quick if someone was sitting beside you watching you do it. An example may help.
I am not intending to set this as any kind of a model to follow but this site illustrates what I mean.
The image on the top right is sitting on a background image (the squares) and is sliced so that part is saved as gif and part as jpeg. Also some of it is in a header file and included, some is in the right column of the final pages.
This is the site http://www.intentsystems.com/ and this is the heaer include page: http://www.intentsystems.com/includes/header2.htm
If this had just been sliced in Image Ready it would be difficult, or impossible really, to arrange things like this.
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