Re: Irregular shaped artwork in WWW

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Tue, 21 Mar 1995 10:00:46 -0600

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Date:         Tue, 21 Mar 1995 10:00:46 -0600
From: mailto:MARTINA3558@COBRA.UNI.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Irregular shaped artwork in WWW
To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB

I recently extracted irregularly shapd objects from a larger image in order to
create icons for the submenus of our community network.  In order to prepare
the images for the web I created a small rectangular bit mapped document with a
solid background color and a border.  I saved this under a generic name as a
paint program (you could do this in Photoshop or other program.. I returned to
the source picture and selected the :) "lasso tool" to cut out the irregular
image.  I then pasted the image onto the small rectangle and cleaned it up a
bit, typed in the label, and saved as a gif. for insertion into the html
document.

If you want an invisible background, you could paste onto a rectangle that would blend with your background..white, I imagine, and with no borders. It would then appear as an irregular object, but I don't know if you would like the design.

Anna Martin mailto:martina3558@uni.edu