Web Photo Gallery Problem

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Graham_Thomson
Jul 13, 2004
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Hi,

I have used Photoshop CS to create a Web Photo Gallery for a project where I want users to be able to right click on the image in their browser and copy it across to web pages they are authoring.

All was fine but then I noticed that when the users are copying it to their web pages a blue link border appears around the image. This is because in the Gallery it is the link to the next image!

Is this a feature new to CS because the gallery before was built in Photoshop 7 and it did not have this "link" on the image.

I build the Gallery in the "Basic" style. Is there a way I can stop CS adding this link at the build stage?

Thanks in advance!

Graham
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Graham_Thomson
Jul 13, 2004
Hi,

I’m new to these forums and could not find one for Photoshop CS in the list so please forgive me as this seemed like the most appropriate forum to post in!

I have used Photoshop CS to create a Web Photo Gallery for a project where I want users to be able to right click on the image in their browser and copy it across to web pages they are authoring.

All was fine but then I noticed that when the users are copying it to their web pages a blue link border appears around the image. This is because in the Gallery it is the link to the next image!

Is this a feature new to CS because the gallery before was built in Photoshop 7 and it did not have this "link" on the image.

I build the Gallery in the "Basic" style. Is there a way I can stop CS adding this link at the build stage?

Thanks in advance!

Graham
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LenHewitt
Jul 13, 2004
Graham,

Welcome to the forum.

I’ve moved your duplicate Topic to join this, your original one. Please only post one topic for one problem. Not only will it be easier for you to find the relevant replies, but has the added advantage of avoiding upsetting the natives.

When your user copies an image, it should only be copying the image, and the border comes not from the image but from the HTML code as in:
<img src="whatever.jpg" border="1">. That’s something coming from their web page, not the image.
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Graham_Thomson
Jul 14, 2004
Hi Len,

Apologies for posting twice!

Ok if you look at the following URL -( http://www.webtools.stir.ac.uk/image_gal/pages/camp_bridgesh ot.htm) you will see that there is an image. This Gallery was created in Photoshop CS and the image links to the next image in the Gallery.

The problem is that when the user views this is their browser (Internet Explorer in this instance) – and right clicks on the image and selects "Copy" -the subsequent paste that they do on their page in their editor such as Contribute or Dreamweaver "retains" the link and a blue border appears around the image.

What I’m trying to clarify is that I don’t think that this happened when the Gallery was created in Photoshop 7 as the image did not have this link put on it in the first place.

If this is correct I may have to go back to creating the Gallery in Photoshop 7 so as to get around this problem!

Does anybody from Adobe know if I can configure Photoshop CS not to put the link on the image in the first place?

Graham
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dave_milbut
Jul 14, 2004
The problem is that when the user views this is their browser (Internet Explorer in this instance) – and right clicks on the image and selects "Copy" -the subsequent paste that they do on their page in their editor such as Contribute or Dreamweaver "retains" the link and a blue border appears around the image.

i’m not seeing that. IE6.
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Norbert_Bissinger
Jul 14, 2004
Not seing it with Netscape 6.73.

Create a link by hitting the spacebar once on a new line, then past the URL.
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Graham_Thomson
Jul 14, 2004
Dave – when you say you’re not seeing it in IE6 – do you mean that when you paste the image onto a html page that there is not link attached to the image and no blue border?
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dave_milbut
Jul 14, 2004
do you mean that when you paste the image onto a html page that there is not link attached to the image and no blue border?

no, i mean that when i paste what’s been copied into wordpad, i get an image.

I’m guessing it has to do with your settings in the app you’re (they’re) pasting into. i know that visual studio has an option to paste normal (which would give just an image) or special (giving the image and code behind it)… as does lotus notes. Look for something like that.
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LenHewitt
Jul 14, 2004
Graham,

I’m really not getting this at all.

How do you "Paste an image" into an HTML Page for goodness sake? HTML is text. It carries a link to the location of an image as the src attribute of the <img> tag. An image isn’t ’embedded’ in an HTML file
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Graham_Thomson
Jul 14, 2004
Now now Len – don’t get upset ! 🙂

I think basically the problem is the users are pasting into Macromedia Contribute and the link is being retained from the Photoshop CS Gallery. It did not happen when it was a Photoshop 7 gallery because it did not put a link on the image. It’s as simple as that!

Now here is the question (and if you work for Adobe please identify yourself)!

Is there a way when creating a Basic Gallery in Photoshop CS so that the "large" image does not contain a link to the "next" image in the gallery. In other words, replicating how Photoshop 7 created it’s basic gallery.

Tanx

Graham
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dave_milbut
Jul 14, 2004
graham, i don’t think (and I’m pretty sure) there’s no way to disable that. at least in that gallery. what if they paste into a 3rd app (like wordpad) then copy and paste back into dreamweaver. did you look to see if there’s a setting in DW for the paste prefrences? in visual studio you can set it the way you like it, and VS6 is OLD! 🙂

I don’t work for adobe!
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alforddesigngroup
Jul 15, 2004
wrote:
Hi Len,

Apologies for posting twice!

Ok if you look at the following URL -( http://www.webtools.stir.ac.uk/image_gal/pages/camp_bridgesh ot.htm) you will see that there is an image. This Gallery was created in Photoshop CS and the image links to the next image in the Gallery.

The problem is that when the user views this is their browser (Internet Explorer in this instance) – and right clicks on the image and selects "Copy" -the subsequent paste that they do on their page in their editor such as Contribute or Dreamweaver "retains" the link and a blue border appears around the image.

What I’m trying to clarify is that I don’t think that this happened when the Gallery was created in Photoshop 7 as the image did not have this link put on it in the first place.

If this is correct I may have to go back to creating the Gallery in Photoshop 7 so as to get around this problem!

Does anybody from Adobe know if I can configure Photoshop CS not to put the link on the image in the first place?

Graham

graham
i don’t work for adobe, but i do some web design. i copied the photo from ie5 w2k into adobe go live 5 and did not get the link border on the page or in the html code.

i also did a "save image as" and same results.

what i found is that photoshop determines that each photograph is linked to another photograph and writes the code. i clicked on the photograph in your link and was transported to the next photograph and so on.

i examined the code that photoshop wrote and each photograph is linked to the one before and after it, stands to reason, but why it put a thumbnail on a separate page is beyond me.

i don’t know about contribute, but there might be a way they can eliminate the <a> <href> attributes with their software. if the image is being pasted into dreamweaver and the link is visible, the link attributes can be removed from the html code with no problem.

hope this helps.
best,
dwain
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Graham_Thomson
Jul 15, 2004
Thanks Dave,

I think I’ll look at recreating the Gallery in Photoshop 7 – might be easier in the long run! Appreciate you advice!

Graham
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LenHewitt
Jul 15, 2004
Graham,

Now now Len – don’t get upset <<

Not getting in the least bit upset – just trying to understand your problem, and no, I do not work for Adobe. Neither do I have any experience of Contribute…but I don’t understand how a right-click copy/paste of an image from a browser can copy both image data and HTML source code to the windows clipboard.
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alforddesigngroup
Jul 15, 2004
wrote:
Thanks Dave,

I think I’ll look at recreating the Gallery in Photoshop 7 – might be easier in the long run! Appreciate you advice!

Graham

graham,
after you make your gallery in ps7, open a page in your browser. go to view/source. look at the code and i bet you will find several <a href> tags with your images. if you strip those out or "reconfigure" ps to leave them out, you defeat the purpose of the gallery and it will not function properly. the next best thing to do is create a contact sheet and place that on a web page. the only this about a contact sheet is the people doing the copy and paste get the whole sheet, not just a picture. dwain

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