Sometime around 11/12/07 (at 22:43 +0000) Pete MacKenzie said:
Anyway, the answer seems to be
that there is little difference in the long run - which is nice…
Very nice. And if you’re working with images at 100% (unscaled) and
you match the output file size… you’ll get the same thing. So IF
that’s the only reason for optimising elsewhere, try it in the layout
instead.
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I’d like your opinions on this one. The whole reason I diverted to photoshop is because I needed to group a bunch of content (what I have in the fading slideshow) as one image. While I was in photoshop I thought I’d make all the slave images a uniform size to avoid any weird scaling effects. When I tried to group images in Freeway, the drop shadow became white. As a workaround, I ended up taking screen captures of the freeway layout and re-importing them as grouped images. I’m sure there’s a better way to do this, but I don’t know what it is.
Again, thanks for all your expertise! The response has been amazing!!
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Sometime around 11/12/07 (at 19:32 -0500) Andrew Macris said:
While I was in photoshop I thought I’d make all the slave images a
uniform size to avoid any weird scaling effects.
Good plan.
When I tried to group images in Freeway, the drop shadow became white.
There’s a behavioural oddity in Freeway that means that layered items
don’t use the visual appearance of underlying elements when they
render any transparent/translucent areas. The simple page background
colour is used instead.
I presume the background page colour where this was being set up was
white, but the group was sitting over something else, right? And the
group is marked as a layer in the Inspector palette? You would
reasonably expect (from visual appearance) that your shadow would
blend into the non-white of the underlying objects, but in fact it
blends into the white page background.
One workaround is to unlayer the stack, but this can be awkward if
you’re arranging it over other items.
Another workaround is to include an underlying element INSIDE the
group, something that is large enough to include the shadow area, and
has the image or colour fill that you want to show up in the shadow.
This issue is one of Freeway’s ‘little quirks’. I hope it is improved
in some future version, but until then you’ll have to use whatever
workaround seems to be best for your layout.
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Yes, you are correct. The background of the page is white, but the image was placed over a graphic element with a linear gradient from a light blue to white. What I did seems to work, but I wish there were a way in Freeway to create combined graphics that look exactly like the separate elements. That would save some steps and increase the quality control. My slideshow jumps a pixel here or there.
thanks again.
Andrew.
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