Graphics for Home Page
- Complete the following tasks:
- Use Corel Draw and Corel PhotoPaint to create a Banner
and 5 matching Buttons for your Home Page Project.
- Include your name or an appropriate title in a self created banner.
- Include 5 custom-made buttons to match the banner for specific links in
your Web site. The text on the buttons must say or imply links to
the following sites (these are sites we will create later):
- My future,
- Family Tree,
- Projects,
- Survey Says, and
- Year in Review
- Use the skills learned at ITC (4/5/02 field trip)
and in the classroom, remember design tips
for graphics, etc.
- Your completed graphics are due on Monday,
4/8/02.
Common Question: If my Button is
not a square, how do I get rid of the white stuff?
Answer: Make it transparent.
Here's how.
- Create & save the image in Corel
Draw
- Convert to a Bitmap and Edit the Bitmap
- Resample as normal in Corel PhotoPaint
- Save using these steps:
- Click File~Publish to the Web~Web Image
optimizer.
- In the Web image optimizer dialog box,
choose the GIF file format from the File type list box.
- Choose a filter type from the Presets
list box (lower right-hand icon with two boxes & two lines).
- Click the Edit filter button.
Enable the Interlace check box.
- Enable one of the following options:
- Image color - makes the color you click
in the color palette transparent
- Masked area - makes the protected area
of your image transparent
- If you want to make the editable area
of an image transparent, click the Invert mask checkbox.
- Note: If you are saving an image that
contains more than 256 colors, you must convert it to Paletted color mode
to decrease the number of colors in the image. For more information see
"Changing the color mode of images."
Sample
HowTo
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