Rollover states + Photoshop

Maybe I am missing something, but I can’t seem to get this to work:

I’ve created two images for two rollover states, normal and active. I’ve saved them as (flat) Photoshop files and created a button with rollover in Freeway 5 Pro.

The problem I have is that when Freeway creates/uploads my site, the “normal” state of the rollover is converted/compressed as I specified (e.g. JPEG) but the “mouseover” state is saved as the original PSD-file, and not converted/compressed.

So now, when viewing the page online, and rolling over the button, the PSD-file is displayed (or rather, NOT displayed, as the browser, of course, cannot display PSD’s)

Any others with this problem and/or a sollution?
Many thanks!


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Hi

Is it possible that you imported one of the images as a pass-through (the one that doesn’t output right)

Check in the inspector for the output options

David


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Hi David,

Thanks for your reply.
It does not seem to be a “pass-through” issue:
in the meantime I tried the same with two TIFF images and the result is the same:

When published, the “normal” state of the rollover gets converted to JPEG (as specified in the inspector) but the “mouseover” state of the rollover remains a TIFF or PSD (the original file format).

Problem is that the settings in the inspector seem to be applied only to the image for the “normal” state. I am unable to discover how to include separate settings in the inspector for the “mouseover” image (if possible at all)…

Grtz. Harold


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There are two different construction techniques for making rollovers.
The original method (which you used) is done from the menus in the
Action itself. You draw a base image, apply the Action to it, and then
use the Action to attach the second image that will appear when the
cursor interacts with the base image. This works great, as long as
your second (and optional third) image are made precisely the same
size as the original image, and are already in a Web-friendly
compressed format like JPEG or GIF or PNG.

The second method, introduced in Freeway 3, if I recall correctly, is
to stack two graphics boxes above one another, apply the Rollover
Action to the top box, and use the spreadsheet-like Items pane of the
Action interface to define which image appears when. In this latter
method, both (or all three) states can be any image format you like,
because Freeway’s graphics engine is going to compress all of the
states and output the finished Web-friendly images.

The second method is impossible to apply to an inline image, so
there’s still a great reason to use the original technique. But if
your rollover is just sitting on the page somewhere, you can use the
second method to great effect and avoid the need to compress your
button state images as separate finished files (pass-through images,
in the Freeway parlance).

Walter

On Jan 30, 2009, at 7:58 AM, Asteroids wrote:

Problem is that the settings in the inspector seem to be applied
only to the image for the “normal” state. I am unable to discover
how to include separate settings in the inspector for the
“mouseover” image (if possible at all)…


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Hi Walter,

Thank for the extensive reply. The method of stacking images seems to work just fine, but then again, is less easy to work with.

I’ve decided to stick to Ye Good Old Methode of making two GIFs for each rollover. The original output quality (via Photoshop) of the GIFs is very good and, more importantly, seems to be unaffected by Freeway (after unchecking some boxes). Unlike JPEGs, the GIFs don’t seem to be recompressed, or at least the quality does not suffer.

But, I hope the Freeway team may take this case into consideration and maybe come up with a sollution in the next update/version.

Regard,
Harold


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so why don’t you just make and use a jpg copy for the rollover??
all the best
Brian

Asteroids said recently:

Hi David,

Thanks for your reply.
It does not seem to be a “pass-through” issue:
in the meantime I tried the same with two TIFF images and the result is the
same:

When published, the “normal” state of the rollover gets converted to JPEG (as
specified in the inspector) but the “mouseover” state of the rollover remains
a TIFF or PSD (the original file format).

Problem is that the settings in the inspector seem to be applied only to the
image for the “normal” state. I am unable to discover how to include separate
settings in the inspector for the “mouseover” image (if possible at all)…

Grtz. Harold


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i might just do that, or use GIFs for both states (nice and crisp). for now i’ve put it down, concentrating on the content of the site, cuz the “technical side” was driving me crazy :wink:


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