Operation Manual

Create
Reset Size
Color
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Resample
Crop
Brightness and Contrast
Sharpen
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spoken out loud. In some browsers, this text also appears when the pointer is over the image.
Starts Fireworks to create a replacement image. The Create button is disabled unless Fireworks is also installed on
your computer.
Resets the W and H values to the original size of the image.
Specifies a color for the image placeholder.
Edit images in Dreamweaver
You can resample, crop, optimize, and sharpen images in Dreamweaver. You can also adjust their brightness and contrast.
Image-editing features
Dreamweaver provides basic image-editing features that let you modify images without having to use an external image-editing application such
as Fireworks or Photoshop. The Dreamweaver image-editing tools are designed to let you easily work with content designers responsible for
creating image files for use on your website.
You do not need to have Fireworks or other image-editing applications installed on your computer to use the Dreamweaver image-editing
features.
Select Modify > Image. Set any of these Dreamweaver image-editing features:
Adds or subtracts pixels from a resized JPEG and GIF image files to match the appearance of the original image
as closely as possible. Resampling an image reduces its file size and improves download performance.
When you resize an image in Dreamweaver, you can resample it to accommodate its new dimensions. When a bitmap object
is resampled, pixels are added to or removed from the image to make it larger or smaller. Resampling an image to a higher
resolution typically causes little loss of quality. Resampling to a lower resolution, however, always causes data loss and usually
a drop in quality.
Edit images by reducing the area of the image. Typically, you’ll want to crop an image to place more emphasis on the
subject of the image, and remove unwanted aspects surrounding the center of interest in the image.
Modifies the contrast or brightness of pixels in an image. This affects the highlights, shadows, and
midtones of an image. You typically use Brightness/Contrast when correcting images that are too dark or too light.
Adjusts the focus of an image by increasing the contrast of edges found within the image. When you scan an image,
or take a digital photo, the default action of most image capturing software is to soften the edges of objects in the image. This
prevents extremely fine details from becoming lost in the pixels from which digital images are composed. However, to bring out
the details in digital image files, it is often necessary to sharpen the image, thereby increasing edge contrast, and making the
image appear sharper.
Dreamweaver image-editing features apply only to JPEG, GIF, and PNG image file formats. Other bitmap image file
formats cannot be edited using these image-editing features.
Crop an image
Dreamweaver lets you crop (or trim) bitmap file images.
When you crop an image, the source image file is changed on disk. For this reason, you may want to keep a backup copy of the image file
in the event you need to revert to the original image.
1. Open the page containing the image you want to crop, select the image, and do either of the following:
Click the Crop Tool icon in the image Property inspector.
Select Modify > Image > Crop.
Crop handles appear around the selected image.
2. Adjust the crop handles until the bounding box surrounds the area of the image that you want to keep.
3. Double-click inside the bounding box or press Enter to crop the selection.
4. A dialog box informs you that the image file you are cropping will be changed on disk. Click OK. Every pixel in the selected
bitmap outside the bounding box is removed, but other objects in the image remain.
5. Preview the image and ensure that it meets your expectations. If not, select Edit > Undo Crop to revert to the original image.
You can undo the effect of the Crop command (and revert to the original image file) up until the time that you quit
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