Hi Everyone,
I've read through many tutorials that do not explain the info I need.
I've also scanned many forums, and nobody is asking my question.
The ONLY good news about this situation is that since I'm the only one with the question, hopefully everyone else knows the answer and will be so kind as to fill me in.
I'm building a site with a simple layout.
Across the top is an image containing a logo. 800x200
Below it and down the left side is my menu. 250x400
In the 550 remaining pixels to the right, my text.
Very simple.
The issue:
Starting below my menu, going down to the bottom of the page, across to the right side of the text and up to the top image, I'd like to put in a simple shape for artistic value. This simple shape could be anything.
For example, let's say it's a simple 3d pipe.
Using the image slicer for the first time, this is really easy except for one head pounding problem:
How do I make it so the pipe expands and contracts in vertical direction in order to fit pages of varying length?
In my searching nobody has addressed this. My only guess solution is to separate the bottom (horizontal) pipe section from the two vertical sections on each side of the text using the image slicer. From one should make the two vertical sections [backgrounds], so that they will be longer or shorter when need be.
Is there a way to make this happen in photoshop 7 or imageready?
The only possible solution I've been able to dream up is to save the two vertical pipes as "NO IMAGE" on my image slicing, then output to html.
Then I can save those images and manually go into the html and make them the background images for those two sections (again, the areas to the left and right of my main body text, text that varies in length from page to page). That's all I can come up with, but I fear that there is a much easier and professional way to do this that will give me greater power and control when it is needed in the future. Is this the right step?
Please give instruction on how I can make a background image (not color) expand vertically in a photoshop image map to fit around a varying amount of main body text on a web page. If there is a tutorial on this, please tell me where b/c I'm searching even now.
Thanks
Kevin B
I've read through many tutorials that do not explain the info I need.
I've also scanned many forums, and nobody is asking my question.
The ONLY good news about this situation is that since I'm the only one with the question, hopefully everyone else knows the answer and will be so kind as to fill me in.
I'm building a site with a simple layout.
Across the top is an image containing a logo. 800x200
Below it and down the left side is my menu. 250x400
In the 550 remaining pixels to the right, my text.
Very simple.
The issue:
Starting below my menu, going down to the bottom of the page, across to the right side of the text and up to the top image, I'd like to put in a simple shape for artistic value. This simple shape could be anything.
For example, let's say it's a simple 3d pipe.
Using the image slicer for the first time, this is really easy except for one head pounding problem:
How do I make it so the pipe expands and contracts in vertical direction in order to fit pages of varying length?
In my searching nobody has addressed this. My only guess solution is to separate the bottom (horizontal) pipe section from the two vertical sections on each side of the text using the image slicer. From one should make the two vertical sections [backgrounds], so that they will be longer or shorter when need be.
Is there a way to make this happen in photoshop 7 or imageready?
The only possible solution I've been able to dream up is to save the two vertical pipes as "NO IMAGE" on my image slicing, then output to html.
Then I can save those images and manually go into the html and make them the background images for those two sections (again, the areas to the left and right of my main body text, text that varies in length from page to page). That's all I can come up with, but I fear that there is a much easier and professional way to do this that will give me greater power and control when it is needed in the future. Is this the right step?
Please give instruction on how I can make a background image (not color) expand vertically in a photoshop image map to fit around a varying amount of main body text on a web page. If there is a tutorial on this, please tell me where b/c I'm searching even now.
Thanks
Kevin B
