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Creating Buttons, Banners And Other Web
Graphics
Web Designer Premium is great tool for creating any standalone web graphics for use with other
programs or other web authoring tools. You can draw these objects from scratch using the drawing
tools, or use ready made web clipart from the Designs Gallery. Just draw, design or import an item
from the Designs Gallery
onto a blank page. Manipulate this as required - size it, color it and change the text or fonts as required,
and then export the item as a PNG or JPG.
For example this is how to create a standalone button graphic from a template:
Open the Designs Gallery
and then the Web Button category (or Icons or Banners - whatever
category you require).
Double click on a design to open this in a new document. Edit this as required e.g. you can:
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Resize it (or rotate) it using the Selector Tool
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Change the color by clicking on the appropriate colors on the left end of the Color Line and
choosing 'edit'
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Change the text with the Text Tool
When you're happy, select the object and export it as
a PNG or JPG using the buttons in the Website bar
(these are on a flyout bar on the Export HTML icon).
For almost all graphics, such as buttons, headings, icons and other non-photographic objects you should
use PNG format. For items that contain photos or that have large textured parts made from photos, then
JPEG is a better format. If you're saving a rotated photo, or one with a soft shadow, or soft edge, then
this should be in a PNG format, but be warned this will be a lot larger file than JPEG.
If you click the Settings
button in the Export file dialog you can access an advanced control panel that lets you optimize the
image.
Here you can compare side-by-side two different versions of the same image. For example you can
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