Re: DW tracing image

From: "Aline Parrone" > i made some great pages using tracing image for the
background.  it appeared
> on the dreamweaver screen while i was doing it (but not on the browser
> offline).  i thought though that it would work when i upload it.  i was
> wrong.
>
> so how do you get this tracing image thing to work?  i really like the way
i
> was able to make the image faint by increasing the transparency.  i do not
> know if i can make this work if i just use the ordinary image (and it is
> large-- occupying the whole screen) and get this same results (muted
colors)
> by just increasing brightness and manipulating the image and so on ( i use
> PSP).
>
> any suggestions?  i really worked hard on it and i saw those images got
> loaded (there were 6 pages) so i was really so disappointed when i did not
> see the background as i was hoping to.

Hi Aline

The tracing image that you see in DW is not part of the web page and will
not be seen on the finished page. The idea behind them is that you could
create a mockup of a page in a graphics program, then load it as a tracing
image so that you can line up the elements of your page over it.

The main use for it would probably be where you have a separate designer
(who creates the look they want in something like photoshop) who sends the
image to the html coder who creates the page using the image as a guide.
Having it visible in DW enables them to make sure everything lines up as the
designer wanted it to.

HTHG

Brian
comharsa(at)clara.net

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