limbo
msg:853934 | 3:12 pm on Nov 5, 2003 (gmt 0) |
What software are you using?
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billybonds
msg:853935 | 3:24 pm on Nov 5, 2003 (gmt 0) |
I'm using photoshop 7 & imageready cheers, jim
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limbo
msg:853936 | 3:36 pm on Nov 5, 2003 (gmt 0) |
I predominantly use fireworks so not sure if I can help. Are you trying to get the corona effect to have the detail of the page below to show through? I think this is impossible with GIFs - as you know they dont have the depth of tranparecy but they will irradicate your file size issue. If you could harness glow around the star but not worry too much about the back ground showing through you could use the alpha channel and a rollover.
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billybonds
msg:853937 | 3:42 pm on Nov 5, 2003 (gmt 0) |
hmmmm... yeah i do want the background detail to show through. i guess i'll just have to look for a different effect - shame though! thanks for your help jim
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limbo
msg:853938 | 3:47 pm on Nov 5, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Could you incorporate the background into the image? - as though you had sliced it. That way there would be no need for transparency and you could add as little or as much colourful corona as you wanted. Ta limbo
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billybonds
msg:853939 | 4:08 pm on Nov 5, 2003 (gmt 0) |
hi limbo i hadn't thought of that... it sounds possible although a little tricky taking into account my limited CSS skills (the positioning side of things is not my strongest!) i'll ponder that one..... cheers jim
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limbo
msg:853940 | 4:20 pm on Nov 5, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Actually I thought that if the background you were using was fixed positionally under you star then you could use it as the background for your images in their 'rollover' and 'off' states. I guess the simplest way would be to screen capture the section of background and paste it as you background in PS and then add the corona. Of course this is totally dependant on the layout of your content - IE. is is fluid or fixed. But if you could fix only the background around your image and have the rest of the page fluid...?
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billybonds
msg:853941 | 6:33 pm on Nov 5, 2003 (gmt 0) |
actually my page is fixed so the problem isn't there - well it's probably easy (ish) i just need to learn how to use the z-index properly in conjunction with positioning across a couple of divs thanks for your help and ideas jim
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