white around the images but I did do that in PS. It must have happened in FW when I scaled and padded?
Yes it is the padding bit that does it.
Scale by all means but then Fit Box to Graphic will get rid of the extra white bits.
David
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Thanks guys
I have resized an image to see if it makes a difference
and imported as pass through to the box in my Target pile of images and it messes up the pile of images… FW error says “overflow”
blah
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so… there is no fit box to graphic option…
I have a pile of 16 boxes as a rollover/target function
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FW error says “overflow”
This because the graphic box you are importing into isn’t big enough for the pass-through image.
. there is no fit box to graphic option
Only on initial import - once you have scaled and padded you have to resize the graphic box yourself.
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oh I already have my sized pile of 16 boxes 2=450 x 500
so I am at a loss as to how to do that… ugh
you’d think I never made a website before…
how do I resize 16 boxes that are already targeted?
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ok Dave
I redid a few images and resized ( smaller) in PS but there is still white around the image because I had to scale & pad in box…
wait…
so I compared the quality of the image in Freeway browser next to website browser and there is absolutely no difference in quality… so maybe all this work for naught
and trust FW. I can not see one bit of color loss or any other difference…
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regarding pass though… i still don’t know why that happened because the image and box it was being imported were same size…
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Yes the idea that there is a proper way that one ‘ought’ to be applying -
often intimated by reading from users of non Freeway workflows - can have
one spending a lot for little or nothing.
As I said - you can increase th quality of Freeway’s image compression ratio
in preferences - application wide - or individually.
So if something looks noticeably poor that’s one way to attend to it and see
if it improves. You have got Image preview inside the Freeway work
environment to see images at export setting without having to preview
anywhere else.
But you found out things - including that scale and pad is best followed by
fit box to content - unless of course you want a bit of graphic margin on
one or more sides of an image.
If you were the sort to optimise and tweak your images in Photoshop or
similar and want to use them exactly as they are - with no rollovers -
combining images - resizing in Freeway - applying of actions that edit the
image - THEN Pass-through is the way to go.
all the best
Brian
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ok Dave
I redid a few images and resized ( smaller) in PS but there is still white
around the image because I had to scale & pad in box…wait…
so I compared the quality of the image in Freeway browser next to website
browser and there is absolutely no difference in quality… so maybe all this
work for naught
and trust FW. I can not see one bit of color loss or any other difference…
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Thanks Brian
Yes I am learning about all this… so when I have one graphic box that is not part of a pile of target images and I import image pass through, it works great not problem, but when I import an image and click pass through onto a graphic box that is part of group… the green x lines appear and messes the pile up… and It is not because the size of image is larger tan box… I made sure of that…
oh well just thought I would report this
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Hi everyone
Correction. When I said there were green x lines in box, I meant blue lines… pass through option does not work when one has multiple target images… I have tried a few ways…
won’t let me import image… no way no how!
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Pass-through requires that the container box be exactly the same
dimensions as the image you are importing. If you see the blue X in
the box, and there are no other elements above it overlapping it,
simply press Command-Shift-D to resize the box to fit the image. And
if you are seeing blue borders on the container, then it is not set to
be a layer, and you won’t be able to stack more than one image above
another. You may use the Inspector to convert this box into a Layer,
which will remove this restriction.
Walter
On Jan 22, 2009, at 10:52 AM, Carla wrote:
Hi everyone
Correction. When I said there were green x lines in box, I meant
blue lines… pass through option does not work
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Hi everyone… I think I am losing it… I have been creating Target rollover actions for all my websites and now I am miffed!
I decided to try the pass through as suggested… Make a new page, start from scratch… create each graphic box and import (pass through) exact size image. works fine, Then I put target image on top image exactly as I have always done
and the target does not work… the action palette has only the file name of image that has the action on it… and the not the others… am I missing something
???
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I don’t know what ‘pile of target images’ is - but if they are combining to
make a composite image then for sure - you cant use separate pass through
components.
all the best
Brian
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Thanks Brian
Yes I am learning about all this… so when I have one graphic box that is
not part of a pile of target images and I import image pass through, it works
great not problem, but when I import an image and click pass through onto a
graphic box that is part of group… the green x lines appear and messes
the pile up… and It is not because the size of image is larger tan box… I
made sure of that…oh well just thought I would report this
Thanks
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Sometime around 22/1/09 (at 10:52 -0500) Carla said:
pass through option does not work when one has multiple target images…
I recommend NOT using pass-through unless you have a very specific
reason for this. It means Freeway is not allowed to touch the images,
so it can’t combine into different states in rollovers in the way
that normally-imported images can.
My recommendation is for you to use some solution that doesn’t rely
on pass-through.
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Right I see that Keith
thanks
what I did was use higher resolution images, around
500 - 700 kb and imported those, still had to scale & pad in box
but the result was much better than using the smaller images
Thanks for all the help
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still had to scale & pad in box
But you haven’t reduced the box to fit the image after the scale and pad which means that for the 4 jockey image you are publishing an image that is twice the size that it needs to be. Which in turn means slower page loading times and a poorer user experience with no benefit in quality.
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You should also apply the colour profile sRGB to the images before saving them
I mostly use Adobe Photoshop and work in Adobe RGB which has a greater latitude range than sRGB.
But for the PC web browsers and most printers that don’t run colour profiling they tend to prefer sRGB profiles.
If I was to look at an Abobe RGB image that is uploaded to the web, it will often look a little dark and over saturated.
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Sometime around 24/1/09 (at 08:53 -0500) Snapper said:
You should also apply the colour profile sRGB to the images before saving them
Yep. But only just before saving them for use in your site. The
Adobe RGB (1998) colour space (we’re really talking about colour
spaces, not profiles) is larger than sRGB, so don’t switch until
you’ve done critical editing work.
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