I’m playing with WOW Slider and I have it working pretty well with one infuriating problem: my images have a white background that doesn’t match my page background.
I’ve imported it into my freeway doc using iframe. But, the original files as generated by WOW Slider can be found here:
I’ve filled in the Hex with the appropriate value from my freeway page background color (a dark blue). I’m seeing a while background “frame” behind my pictures, on a blue background.
I heard back from the people at Wow Slider. They recommended that I open the images files the WS generates and remove the white border in an image editor.
I did that, and uploaded via ftp. It works, but it’s a time consuming workaround. It doesn’t take a long time to remove the border for one image. However, this site re-design has over 1000 images in it. There’s not enough money in the budge to do this for each image. I need to find an alternative. I wish I could get Showcase to show the Caption — not perfect, but it would help.
If you’d like to see the final product it’s temporarily parked here:
You could try batch processing in Graphic Converter - a workhorse for batch of processes among other things. Full version (I believe) is still free to try, http://www.lemkesoft.com
Frank H.
On Oct 29, 2012, at 3:31 AM, “Doty” email@hidden wrote:
I heard back from the people at Wow Slider. They recommended that I open the images files the WS generates and remove the white border in an image editor.
I did that, and uploaded via ftp. It works, but it’s a time consuming workaround. It doesn’t take a long time to remove the border for one image. However, this site re-design has over 1000 images in it. There’s not enough money in the budge to do this for each image. I need to find an alternative. I wish I could get Showcase to show the Caption — not perfect, but it would help.
If you’d like to see the final product it’s temporarily parked here:
Thanks for the idea, Frank. I tried it. The problem is each graphic is a different size and the border needs to be selected manually to change the fill color.
I find it hard to believe the something as cool and flashy as the Wow Slider doesn’t have a setting the the frame fill color in addition to the background fill color.
As I plan on trying WS again in the near future, I’ll be watching for your posts. Sorry that didn’t help.
Frank H.
On Oct 29, 2012, at 11:02 AM, “Doty” email@hidden wrote:
Thanks for the idea, Frank. I tried it. The problem is each graphic is a different size and the border needs to be selected manually to change the fill color.
I find it hard to believe the something as cool and flashy as the Wow Slider doesn’t have a setting the the frame fill color in addition to the background fill color.
Try this. Once you have uploaded the WOW slider to your server go find it with Fetch or FTP client of your choice. Open up the index.html that WOW has created in an editor - Text Wrangler for example. At the beginning of the body section will be <bodystyle =“background-colour: #xxxxxx” (where xxxx is the color ref). change this to <bodystyle =“background-colour: #non” and save.
It seems this will have to be done every time a slider is uploaded as I have yet to find a way to make this a permanent state
This should give you a transparent background.
But if you still have a white background or frame on each image then that will have to go, either by cropping or removal in an image editor.
Having said that I think these images with all that orange in them would work much better on a white background anyway. Orange and Blue are complementary colours and at the saturation levels used here are not restful on the eye.
I will give your idea a try. Thank you! That’s more of a response than I’ve gotten from the folks at Wow Slider.
Regarding the color matching. I agree with you—if these few images were all I was dealing with. However, I’m recreating an outdated website and there are literally 2000 images to deal with, all with different color schemes. I’m having a hard time finding a color that will be “restful on the eye” with all those different options.
I’ll give it a shot and see what happens. Thanks again.
…and there are literally 2000 images to deal with, all with different color schemes. I’m having a hard time finding a color that will be “restful on the eye” with all those different options.
In which case Doty take your lead from the how other galleries, big or small, do it …
White will not only solve your problem but will be good for any image as these folk - and most other galleries - realise.