I am exploring Adobe Image ready for making a new webpage. I have sorted out Image maps, slicing and saving and all that. I can create the over state for the slice but Im stuck with creating the rollover layer that I can edit for the over state. Can anyone please give me some starters for ten. I have Image ready 7 and I have looked up the help but it is just confusing me. Thanks Jeff

"Im stuck with creating the rollover layer that I can edit for the over state." ??? this mean yer having problems with creating a rollover layer that is editable in the 'over' state? just confused me is all

Jeff, what do you want to happen when the mouse is "over"??

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retrocity (me confused too)

Shit I knew this was going to be hard to explain. Slynky and Scott, All I am trying to do is get the colour of the slice to change when the mouse selects it. In my rollovers layer menu I have the slice with its over state and the animation frames 1 and 2, which I guess I should be able to edit, but for the life of me I cant every change I make effects the whole page. The selected slice shows in the slice menu but the whole page shows in the animation menu, this seem strange I was expecting the two frames for the slice to show. I have found an example in a tut for an earlier version and the menus are all different but ist does show the slice in the animation menu with the two different coloured slices. Thanks for any help, I am sure to go mad trying to sort it.

Sorry for the IM lads, just tried the post again and it bloody worked, sods law. :O)

Usually what I do is create the edit rollover state on a different layer in Photoshop. Import the whole PSD file into ImageReady and just simply turn on and off the edited layers on the rollover state.

Thanks for this Ashley I will try a second layer. :O)

Sorry for the delay Jeff, here's a screen cap that may make it clearer...

In PS create a seperate layer for each "state" of the menu option

I used 3 states"

1. Default - this is displayed when the cursor is elsewhere ;)
2. Over - this is displayed when the cursor is on the menu option
3. Down - this is displayed when the mouse button is depressed (no, not mentally!)

I also used the third state as a visual clue for the page displayed. (If the user is on the ABOUT page, you'd want that menu choice to be different than the others - sort of "greyed-out") You can do this by modifing the code generated by ImageReady...

I was trying to put together a tutorial for the "new" tutorial section of the site but am behind in... EVERYTHING!

let me know if this helps,
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retrocity

Click that Slice tab one more time to get the dimensions and position of the current slice.

No Problem Scott, well worth it, Hope you have finished smashing your house around. I think my problem is I am trying to edit the different states in image ready, where as, what I should be doing is making different layers for the different states in Photoshop and then importing them into Image ready. I will give it a go thanks. The other thing I was concerned about is the load time, my page is one whole graphic sliced up, in your experience will this load OK? :O)

Bleep I see you creeping around this forum thought you might want a look at my scheme for my new site with your lettering centre stage.