Anyone know a shortcut for converting vector art to web slices? I've almost got
my project figured out, and by figured out I mean I'm completely lost. Can you
help? The shapes are too complex to use the tools I've found in the pallete.

I guess this topic should have been named 'working with overlapping slices'.
The problem I'm having doesn't so much relate to converting vectors to slices,
although it would be a nice feature, as it relates more to figuring out how to
make a polygon slice appear in my browser as a polygon. I'm getting really
frustrated.

If you post the PNG I can draw your slices on for you to give you an idea how
it's done. You can only use rectangular slices, as that's the cold reality of
the inter-webs.

Once you've drawn a slice on top of your artwork, set it to the proper export
file type (gif, jpeg, etc), then right click on the slice and choose "export
selected slice". You'd then take that sliced image and assemble it into your
HMTL using Dreamweaver or another similar application.

If you take a look at this image:
http://joedasilva.com/images/masthead.jpg

You can see how it fits into my homepage HTML here:
http://joedasilva.com/

This is the png as I have it now. Been thru many various stages lol

I have every piece of the shoe made as .gifs in every color combo on the menu
so all the art is done. I just don't see a way to do this without flash, but
I'm no expert. So, there could be something I'm missing?

http://i36.tinypic.com/2u4tx69.png

What are you trying to accomplish exactly? If a user selects one of the color chips what happens?

The corresponding panel of the shoe changes color. When a color combination is settled upon the results are emailed to me for production.

Wow yeah, that would mean you have about 2500 combinations right? I'm not sure
how you were planning on accomplishing that, but some kind of scripting is
going to be required. I'd recommend Flash, as that would be an easy way of
setting up a "if user clicks X show them Y" type of scenario.

Yeah I had it set up but the scripts won't work right in layers. I was using div tags and they kinda work but its a huge mess. Everything interferes with itself lol

You have 209,088 possible combinations (11 * 11 * 8 * 3 * 8 * 3 * 3).

You don't have a Web page...you have a software application that's accessed
via the Web.You need to think of it in those terms.

I made a JavaScript book recommendation for you in your previous thread on
this
topic:http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforu...?forumid=14&ca
tid=193&threadid=1393644&enterthread=y. But that was when I thought you only
had three things to change. I really think you should take this application to
Flash. In Flash, you can set your shapes and then use the selections to change
the fill dynamically. Flash is really made to do just this kind of thing.

Trying to do this with DHTML and transparent gifs (which will have to have
hard, aliased edges for the transparency) just seems crazy to me.

Again, good luck!

[q]Originally posted by: pixlor
You have 209,088 possible combinations (11 * 11 * 8 * 3 * 8 * 3 * 3).

You don't have a Web page...you have a software application that's accessed
via the Web.You need to think of it in those terms.

I made a JavaScript book recommendation for you in your previous thread on
this
topic:http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforu...?forumid=14&ca
tid=193&threadid=1393644&enterthread=y. But that was when I thought you only
had three things to change. I really think you should take this application to
Flash. In Flash, you can set your shapes and then use the selections to change
the fill dynamically. Flash is really made to do just this kind of thing.

Trying to do this with DHTML and transparent gifs (which will have to have
hard, aliased edges for the transparency) just seems crazy to me.

Again, good luck!

[/q]

Lol thanks. I knew it was a handful but thought there was a possibility it
could be done. Most of these are done with teams of people and have a huge
budget, and sorry to admit but those are neither the case here. I thank again,
you two, who made replies to either thread. I thought I had figured out a way
to do this after I posted the first thread and that just ran me in to another
dead end. The project was scrapped for now. It wasn't my site, and the owner
decided not to pursue this avenue just yet. I guess I'll have to buy Flash as
my next move. I used to have it, but left the industry for a few years.

Thanks, Marshall