Hi, I have made imagemaps using other programs but unfortunately at the moment I have to use ImageReady3.0 and I was hoping there was an online tutorial I could use. Does anyone have a link that works? I found a tutorial on the Photoshop website but the link was broken.
I currently have an image with multiple layers which I intend to use as rollovers. Should i create the rollovers first and THEN the image map? Or vice versa…
You would make the image map first then set the rollover states for each set of mapping coordinates.
Depending on the size of the image and what you are using it for, since you want to do rollovers as well, you may want to use slices instead. With rollovers on a large image map the entire image is reloaded even if it is just a small portion that changes for the rollover.
If you are working with a large 40K file there could be a 10 second load time on dial-up connections. If you used slices on that same image the rollover state may just be a 2K segment of the image and should load instantly.
I created the image map using layers because the size of my file was pretty small. After image mapping 4 of my layers, I wanted to go back and edit the URL for one of the layers, but I can’t figure out how to get the image mapping information for THAT layer back in the Image Mapping palette. I select the layer in the layer palette, but the image mapping palette is still blank.
That doesn’t help as I am having the same issue. When splitting many selected areas up into many regions on one map, ImageReady groups them into one rollover layer. This effectively eliminates the ability to set alt & anchor tags for each region. Help!
Select one area first. Then, create a new action from the action pallete & name it ‘image-map’ w/ F2 (or whatever) as the hotkey. Lastly, choose Select > Create Image Map From Selection from the main menu with the appropriate shape. Voila! Hit the stop button on the actions pallete.
You now can go thru each area very quickly with your magic wand & hit f2 as you please to create an image map instantly.
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