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www.studiosoft.co.uk RE: Save as and optimize nickelsto (TechnicalUser)(OP)31 Mar 06 13:20Thanks for your comments.
I have worked with photoshop for a long time so I know about optimizing. It seems photoshop has a lot more save options than imageready.
I have not found the way to save the file and maintain the animation colors exactly as I have created them. There doesn't seem to be a saving option that allows me to just save the damn thing without the program changing all of the coloring. What am I doing wrong? RE: Save as and optimize nickelsto (TechnicalUser)(OP)31 Mar 06 13:35Ok, I found it. In the optimization palette (Window>Optimize) if GIF is selected the program will optimize the colors according to GIF parameters. If you select JPEG then the program optimizes using the original colors.
I think this is solved. If not I'll be back RE: Save as and optimize Centrereed (TechnicalUser)11 Jul 06 04:27Jpeg might well keep the colours how you want them but you called it an animation and Jpeg's aren't animated. RE: Save as and optimize nickelsto (TechnicalUser)(OP)11 Jul 06 11:36Yes, I finally got it to save in the color I had created and maintain it's animation, though now I don't remember how I did it. But you are right, after posting I realized that I no longer had an animation when I saved as a jpeg. googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1406030581151-2'); ); Red Flag This PostPlease let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.
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Using javascript, a browser can sense when your mouse has 'rolled over' on top of this image, and then swap the first or "normal" image for another one, called the "over" image or the "mouseover" image...
Typically the two images are not completely different from each other, but rather only part of an image is changing. Like claymation, you might imagine that we'll have a starting image, take a snapshot of it, change a little something, then take a second snapshot.
Using Photoshop's layers, it's straightforward to accomplish the "change a little something" step by showing/hiding one layer, so we'll start by preparing a photoshop file in such a way that we can see the two different "states" of the image by just hiding or showing some layers.
Remember that you can turn off the display of individual layers by clicking and unclicking the little eye beside them in the layer menu...
We'll pull the image into ImageReady, and then use it to package the whole thing up as a rollover:
A single rollover is kind of a neat effect, but you can see perhaps that to create a page with rollovers on several of the links, you're going to have to put a bunch of images together in a table, and this is rapidly going to get complicated. But it turns out that ImageReady can do a lot of this sort of work for you.
You can "sketch" rather complicated layouts in Photoshop, and then use Adobe ImageReady to turn a Photoshop sketch into a working web page "relatively" simply. Then, using yoiur impeccable knowledge of HTML, you can tweak the page that IR generates and get really quite bandwidth friendly pages.
There's a .psd file of that we'll experiment with at w:\deptpages\communication\comm326\imageready\leafpoem\leafpoem.psd. Open it in Photoshop. We'll edit it first in Photoshop, and then bring it in to ImageReady
After running the IR table to the borders, setting a background body color, replacing some of the slices with transparent gifs, setting the text color to that certain blue, etc, etc, this is what we're heading for....leafpoem-glow-roll. Overall "weight" is 30Kb (about 15Kb is in the lower-left image. The HTML itself is 3Kb). Note that all of this would be cached by the time someone comes to a second page on such a sitelet.
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