Epson Photo Plus - PhotoPlus Color Photo Scanner User's Guide download pdf (Page 174)

162 Making Images for the Web

Once you've sliced up your image you have to export it to make the image slices

understandable to a web visitor's browser.

To export a sliced image:

When exporting with File>Export Optimizer, specify a name and folder for

the files as usual, and choose either .GIF or .JPG as the export file type.

Ensure the Create Image Slices box is checked on the second Export dialog.

Since exporting slices creates multiple files, you may wish to create a

separate folder for them.

The export will create multiple files in the specified folder, depending on how

many slices you have defined. The output consists of a series of image files of the

format selected (for example, MYFILEH0V0.GIF, MYFILEH0V1.GIF, etc.) and a

single HTML file (for example, MYFILE.HTM). The HTML file contains the tags

for the set of image slices, ready to be pasted into the source code for the web page.

Creating image maps

Image maps consist of hotspots that you draw with special tools over selected

parts of an image. When a visitor passes their mouse cursor over the hotspot, a

small caption is displayed and the pointer will change to a pointing hand.

Clicking the mouse while the cursor is over the hotspot will invoke a hyperlink

to a specified URL.

You assign each hotspot its own target—for example, the URL of a web page.

Hotspots aren't attached to a particular image, but become part of a larger "map"

that gets exported (p. 203) along with an image and turns into HTML code. It's

then up to the web developer to embed the image map code properly into the

web page.

Image maps are useful if you want to define isolated and/or irregularly shaped

clickable regions on a web graphic, as opposed to subdividing the entire graphic

into rectangular image slices.

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