RE: Splicing

Stephen,

The main advantage to me for doing this is load time. As a viewer of a
website, I am much more likely to sit and watch many smaller images loading,
than to wait for a single image to finally appear. It makes a more appealing
website. I also think it loads faster as well.

Also, if you do any mousover effects with parts of the image, an imagemap
would be cumbersome.


To do a image splice, you can get one of many shareware and professional
programs that do just that, or ,like myself,  just use Photoshop to do it.

Chad Henderson
Webmaster

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-----Original Message-----
From:	owner-hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org]
Sent:	Monday, January 11, 1999 6:25 PM
To:	hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org
Subject:	Splicing

I am brand new to Web page authoring.  I note a number of sites use images
that are cut into pieces that are seamlessly loaded into a table so they
appear as a single image.

Two questions:

1) How is that done?  I have several books but none covers that topic.  I am
using Photoshop 5.0 and CorelDraw 8.  Do I need something else to cut up
images and seamlessly install them in a table?

2) What are the advantages?  Why not just have a single graphic and put
appropriate hot spots on it?  I assume it may have something to do with
being able to animate the pieces individually but am not sure so I can use
some education.

Thanks in advance - Steve Fisk

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