Hello guys
I miss you so much I am thinking of things I can ask about… ! Ha! Ok here it is
I use the carousel action on my website. Is there any other way to show images in a slideshow that is more like flash? or smoother.
Thanks for all your help guys
The only way you’re going to get the Carousel any smoother is to use smaller images. The real issue here is how fast your computer is (all the data is downloaded to your computer before the effect runs, so there’s no network choke here). But your computer needs to be able to flip the bits quickly enough, and that’s directly related to how many bits need flipping.
Post a link to the page where you have the effect, so we can see what you’re seeing.
It’s pretty simple, really. You have 2.3 MB of photos here on one
page, and that’s way too much for one page. Period. You can either
split this into two pages, or make the photos half their current size.
Try my demo page, and you’ll see that it works very smoothly on small
pages. The limitation isn’t the script, then, but rather the browser.
I just looked at the Network pane in Safari’s Web Inspector. It reports the entire page “weight”, and breaks it down by image. Freeway will never upload a 300ppi image unless you place it as a pass-through, but if you load a couple dozen 200k images, you’ll have 3 megs before you’re done.
Remember, just because you only see one image at a time doesn’t mean that they all aren’t there–this effect cuts a “hole” in your page, arranges all the images in a “filmstrip” behind that hole, and then slides that strip when you click a control. All the images are there the whole time.
No, Freeway already does that for you. You won’t gain anything that way. What you must do is reduce the number of images or the size in inches on screen of those images. There is no way to make it smooth and large and lots of photos. TANSTAAFL.
Hey Walter
just an update
I resized photos down to 72 and put in Carousel and tested them… the photos do not look as good as far as clarity… so I guess I will not do that… I will have to find another way.
Thanks again
I resized photos down to 72 and put in Carousel and tested them…
the photos do not look as good as far as clarity… so I guess I will
not do that… I will have to find another way.
All pictures for the Web should be at 72ppi, so please don’t find
another way!
If they don’t look good, it may mean that you either didn’t reduce
them correctly, or that they need resampling in Freeway (double-click
an image in Freeway and choose ‘Resample’ from the resulting dialog).
There’s plenty of info on the Web about the proper way to make
pictures for the Web; try Googling ‘Preparing pictures for the Web’
and you’ll get more info than you know what to do with
If you make the images 72 dpi outside of Freeway, you need to set the images to Pass Through as you import them, otherwise Freeway will compress them again.
If you make the images 72 dpi outside of Freeway, you need to set
the images to Pass Through as you import them, otherwise Freeway
will compress them again.
Not so. Images brought into Freeway can be any resolution, although
it’s easier if they’re 72ppi (NOT dpi!) to start with. You may be
getting confused with the fact that it’s a bad idea to use JPEGs
because Freeway will compress them again, and you should never
compress a JPEG as it’s a compressed format already. It may even get
larger (in filesize) if you compress it more.
But it’s fine to bring pictures into Freeway at 72ppi, in fact it’s
the best way.
Yeah, I should have rewritten that. I know it doesn’t affect the 72 ppi (yes, I know ppi for web, dpi for print), it’s the re-compression I was driving at since she said her images looked worse after making them 72 ppi.
hi paul so should I save jpeg images in PS as GIF or TIFF or PSD??
and then import?
Native Photoshop format is fine (psd), as is TIFF. GIF is not a good
idea as that is a format best suited to pictures with only flat areas
of colour and tone, such as logos. Anything with continuous tone, ie,
a photograph, will render very badly as a GIF, because it will make
smooth gradients into ‘steps’.
Just to be as clear as possible: there should be NO difference in
quality between your pictures in Freeway at 300 or 72ppi. If there is,
then a mistake has been made, somewhere.