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[ecntrc]

Ive only used image ready for saving a few pics and thats it. Ive made a menu bar, and when my links are hovered Id like them to fade really nicely and cleanly.. someone had told me that image ready had these type of effects.. im not sure if they were talking about animated type or what.. something like flash could do.. id do flash.. if i knew how to work it.. i think image ready would be eaiser for me.. if i could get the ball rolling with some help..

[Scythar]

What type of fading are you looking for?
when you hoover over them they smoothly disappear? i dont understand the question ?

[ecntrc]

yes like a smooth fading elegant type of hover.. thanks for reading..

update: i went ahead and tried to follow a tut, thinking i could get it to fade. but do i mess with opacity or is there an actual command that i am missing? i tried using web content box but i think that just rolls it over to one color to another.. ???? thats not what i want..

Edited by ecntrc, 16 April 2006 - 01:18 PM.

[Scythar]

What you actually do (f.ex.) is you take your object with your layer to imageready, then you click new rolloverstate (web content palette) and you choose "over".
Then you go to the animationpalette at the bottom (at least the palette is at the bottom in my layout), and you click on the icon "new frame" and you make your layer invisible.
Now if you would play the animation you would just have a very fast blinking object, not what we want.
The trick here is to click on the little arrow (or triangle if you want) at the upper right corner (right under the "x" for close) of the animation palette and choose "Tween...", this creates intermediate steps between your 2 frames (amount of your choise, 10 is more then enough) --> this is what creates your fading effect.
Now be sure that in the animation you click "play animation once", instead of "forever" (forever would mean a nice fading effect and then all the suddon your layer is back in 100% opacity)

Hope this helped?
Feel free to ask more...

[ecntrc]

thanks, im going to try that.. but see since i sliced my links, when it fades period, the whole square fades and i didnt want that.. can i change that? i hope you know what i mean..

[Scythar]

Instead of knife tool, use "image based slices", then when your image is on a seperate layer (and hopefully the rest of layer is transparant) this should solve your problem.