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Making Images for the Web 149
Slicing images
Image slicing and image maps are two convenient ways to create navigation
bars and clickable graphics for web pages. With image slicing, a graphic is
carved up into smaller graphics—each of which can have its own link, like any
web graphic—and PhotoPlus saves the sections as separate files when you
export the image. The process also exports HTML tags describing a table
containing the separate graphics, allowing a web browser to reassemble them
seamlessly. The result appears as a single larger graphic, but with different
regions linked to different targets.
For example, the menubar graphic (below top)... can be sliced into four separate
graphics (below bottom), each linked to a different web page.
The Image Slice Tool lets you divide the image into sections which can be
exported to the GIF or JPG file format. You can specify alternate text and URL
links for each of the image sections individually.
To slice the image:
• Choose the Image Slice Tool from the Standard toolbar.
• To place a horizontal slice guide on the image, click on the image at
your chosen cursor position. Shift-click to place a vertical guide. A
guide line appears with each click.
• To move a guide, simply drag it.
• To delete a guide, drag it out of the image window.