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Image Tab
Photo pop-up
This section of the Image tab lets you add pop-up photos and other photo gallery features to your web
page easily. Simply import your photo and use the Selector tool
to scale it right down so it appears as just a small photo thumbnail on your webpage. Then with the
photo still selected, select the Pop-up photo checkbox on this tab. Choose the size you would like for the
pop-up photo by entering a value in the pop-up width field (default 500 pixels). Preview your page and
click on the photo thumbnail on your page, to see the pop-up photo appear.
When you turn on the pop-up photo feature here in the Image tab using the checkbox, the
corresponding option on the Link
tab is also automatically selected for you. That's because a click on the photo will show the pop-up
photo, so you can't also set any other clickable link on the same object. So any link you previously setup
on the object, using the Link tab, will be removed.
One big advantage of these photo pop-ups over pop-up layers (as described in the Link
Tab section above) is that the large photo is only loaded by the web browser when the visitor clicks on a
thumbnail. Therefore this method is much more suited to presenting a large number of photos on a gallery
page, because only the small thumbnails are loaded initially, making the page load quicker.
Note that this feature works on objects other than photos, such as shapes and groups, but can't be used
directly on text. You can put text inside a group (Ctrl+G) to work around this restriction.
Pop-up title
Give the selected photo a title using this field and it is shown above the pop-up photo. Note that you
also need to turn on this title option in the Pop-up photo options dialog (see below), because titles are
not shown by default.
Popup Photo Options
Click the Options button to bring up the Pop-up Photo Options
dialog. Here you can choose from a variety of options that change the way your pop-up photos are
presented.
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