Overlapping layers/hotspots?

I'm looking at creating a photo gallery and here's what I'd
like to do. 9 thumbnails of photos in a 3x3 grid all sitting next
to each other. When you click on one of the thumbnails the
thumbnail layer would be replaced by the relevant photo. Then by
clicking anywhere on the photo would then reload the thumbnail
layer.
Now, is this possible to do? Any help would be much
appreciated as I've just attempted this and cannot get to have the
hotspots on separate layers.

In order to create that behavior in Fireworks you might have
to separate it into multiple pages. Slices on the same page cannot
overlap very easily (there are some tricks, but I'm not sure they
would work for you in this case.)
So basically, on Page 1 you would have the 3x3, each would
contain a hotspot. Then you'd create 9 focus pages, and each hotpot
on page 1 would link to those 9 other pages.
Best practice, however, would be to create this stuff by hand
in HTML/CSS/JavaScript. There's also a popular already-made script
called "Lightbox" that might work great for you here:
http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox/

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See this page for instructions on selecting layers.
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Back when they had a preview of what could be in CS6 there was a video where they had 5 layers, one the back ground then the remain 4 were like match sticks, arrange to overlap each other to form a square or tic tac toe board. Where you can then create woven layers.
http://youtu.be/3bfjRT-Rt5k
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As far as I know, that is something that is under development and not part of PS yet. Only way to do that currently is with layer mask.

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Hi,
I have one more question.
I am using a JLayeredPane, and in there i have multiple panels in different layers.
Each panel has it's own mouse motion listener, and the parent panel containing layered pane also has mouse listeners.
depending on which panel is on top, i want different things to happen.
I noticed that when the parent panel has its mouse motion listener working, the listeners of the panel who is at the topmost layer don't work.
how do you control multiple listeners of overlapping layers?

The top layer (parent's glass pane?) will always grab the click. Java makes a good guess, like using a Button if it's added to a Panel but if your needs are more complex, you should take over and not depend on a layering scheme.
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final static int
    THIS_PANEL = 1,
    THAT_PANEL = 2,
int activePanel = 0;
// after setting thisPanel
activePanel = THIS_PANEL;
// in main mouse listener
// MouseEvent is "me"
switch activePanel {
case THIS_PANEL:
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    break;
default: // whatever
} // end switch

Layer overlaps in Dreamweaver

I've been creating pages for my site in Adobe ImageReady 8.0.
Each document is used as as the basis of one html page. I segment
pictures using the slices function, leaving spaces for copy as
passive slices. (Is this the way to go or should they be active? It
doesn't seem to make a difference.)
I then upload each page to Dreamweaver (Macromedia version
8). My problem is often when I try converting the layers to a table
it won't let me due to 'overlapping layers'. I've checked all the
right boxes but it still does it randomly. Other times I'm told the
page 'won't display in 3 browsers as some layers bleed off screen.'
I don't know anyone else who uploads whole pages with
ImageReady. The only problem I find is that if I change a page then
hit 'update html' it doesn't preserve the links on the existing
dreamweaver document. There seems to be no documentation on this
problem as Imageready doesn't talk about Dreamweaver and vice
versa. I thought it would all be solved when Adobe took over but I
have a friend using Adobe Dreamweaver and he's butting his head
against the wall.
Can anyone help.

> I thought it would all be solved when Adobe took over
Adobe cannot solve a "poor technique" problem. What you
describe for your
method certainly qualifies as that. If you are serious about
HTML
authoring, then you will have to get serious about learning
HTML and CSS.
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"Phil Kininmonth" <[email protected]> wrote
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> I've been creating pages for my site in Adobe ImageReady
8.0. Each
> document is
> used as as the basis of one html page. I segment
pictures using the slices
> function, leaving spaces for copy as passive slices. (Is
this the way to
> go or
> should they be active? It doesn't seem to make a
difference.)
>
> I then upload each page to Dreamweaver (Macromedia
version 8). My problem
> is
> often when I try converting the layers to a table it
won't let me due to
> 'overlapping layers'. I've checked all the right boxes
but it still does
> it
> randomly. Other times I'm told the page 'won't display
in 3 browsers as
> some
> layers bleed off screen.'
>
> I don't know anyone else who uploads whole pages with
ImageReady. The only
> problem I find is that if I change a page then hit
'update html' it
> doesn't
> preserve the links on the existing dreamweaver document.
There seems to be
> no
> documentation on this problem as Imageready doesn't talk
about Dreamweaver
> and
> vice versa. I thought it would all be solved when Adobe
took over but I
> have a
> friend using Adobe Dreamweaver and he's butting his head
against the wall.
>
> Can anyone help.
>

CSS AND LAYERS

Probably an incredibly stupid question, but is it possible to
use both layers and css. I have a header image, but i want to
overlap the content i'm typing a little and the only way i can
think of doing this is by drawing another layer and overlapping it
a little, but dreamweaver wont seem to let me, i'm fairly sure you
can't overlap layers with CSS

See what happens when you resize your text in the browser.
Such schemes are
always wrecked when that happens.
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> Probably an incredibly stupid question, but is it
possible to use both
> layers
> and css. I have a header image, but i want to overlap
the content i'm
> typing
> a little and the only way i can think of doing this is
by drawing another
> layer
> and overlapping it a little, but dreamweaver wont seem
to let me, i'm
> fairly
> sure you can't overlap layers with CSS
>

Prevent Overlaps stays checked

For some reason, I can't turn off the "prevent overlaps"
check box in the layers window. Well, I can, but it's checked again
as soon as I click back into the preview window, so I can't
position nested divs inside each other at all. It didn't use to do
this, and now I'm back to pixel counting to manually move these
divs around.
Any ideas?
Thanks

Maybe you need to rethink using layers altogether. They are
troublesome for
those inexperienced in their use, particularly when it comes
to putting text
content into them. To find out more about them, go here -
http://www.great-web-sights.com/g_layerlaws.asp
http://www.great-web-sights.com/g_layer-overlap.asp
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>I have the same problem, I want overlap layers and
"prevent overlaps" is
>checked again. I hope we get some answer now.

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Quality issues when importing still images as frames for animation

hello,
i've imported roughly 600 hand-drawn and scanned (600 dpi) images as frames for video. the images themselves are really crisp and perfectly how i want them to appear. i've imported each to play for 2 frames then move to the next. once done, i save this video file as an .avi. i then repeat the process in order to layer the video (using Calculations filter) over and over again, to fill up the screen with overlapped, layered animations. in theory, these layers should all remain crisp, just like the scanned images. i was under the impression that the standard Export... > Movie... .avi file is essentially lossless and is best for editing, however when my process is completed, the final product is muddy, grainy, and pixelated. i'm not sure where i am going wrong, as i've actually done this process before with success.
is there a way to specific the working file as "high definition" or something similar so that the quality is just as crisp as the scanned images i am using as source
any help is appreciated - i am completely self taught in video editing and it is really bugging me that the file output is not how i envisioned.
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DB

I note you specified that the images were 600 dpi. The dot per inch are an issue only for printing a hardcopy. For video work, the issue is the pixel dimensions and the pixel aspect ratio. If your image is 600 pixels by 400 pixels with a PAR =1.0. If your sequence is 1440 x 1080 with a pixel ratio ratio of 1.33, then the images must be the same and PrPro must scale up the image. You can get good images from imported stills in PrPro. I prefer to rescale my images using Photoshop. I am told that the scaling algorithm in PrPro has been improved. But regardless, if you are scaling up, you will see degradation becauae Prpro has to interpolate between pixels to fill the video frame.

Small screen rendering bug

There is a very subtle rendering bug when overlapping text.
I'm not sure if this bug is worth fixing, as depending on how
Mars rendering is implemented, it could be very difficult to fix.
When overlapping to sections of text, the anti-aliased pixels
will compound between overlapping lapping lines. This leads to a
slightly "heavy" look at the point of overlap. This most affects
double-layered / slightly-offset text used for shadowing, as the
outlines of the two text areas match closely. It affects screen
presentation and not print.
The easiest way to demonstrate this bug is to copy and paste
a text node multiple times into the SVG document. The rendered text
will darken each time, until eventually, the text has a hard,
jagged outline. The affect is easiest perceived with smaller font
text because the ratio of anti-aliased pixels to 100% "solid"
pixels is greater.
The preferred behavior in this case would be to pick the
darkest color point for that pixel from among all the overlapping
anti-aliased pixels for each channel of color. The resulting
anti-aliased pixel layer would then need to be blended as normal
with any other overlapping layers... This could be tricky, but I
think it would increase the overall quality of screen
rendering.

Unfortunately, this bug is pretty much beyond our control.
Pixel-level rendering issues like this are handled entirely within
the Acrobat core -- our plugin parses Mars SVG, converts it into
Acrobat-friendly data structures, and then hands everything 'over
the wall' for the Acrobat core to render.
We have some control over the renderer's low-level settings,
and I hope to exploit that in the next major release of the Mars
plugin to take care of some other pixel-level rough-rendering bugs
we've been seeing. However, this particular bug looks way too
subtle for us to address with the level of renderer access we're
given ...

Edge Animate Best Practices

Dear Community,
I have been wracking my brain to try to understand why my animation appears constantly jerky. I am new to Edge, and not a coder, and Im wondering why this happens:
http://www.christinaciardullo.com/ESO_HolidayCard_2014_4.html
What am I missing? I wanted to ask some best practices regarding
File Sizes: My pngs generally range from 30-90KB, with larger background images up to 500KB. Is this too much? What are appropriate file sizes for this kind of animation?
Animation Lengths: 2-3 second transitions, and constant back and forth motions.Too much at once?
Overlapping Layers: There is a lot of opacity changing in this - Is it not good to have things animate one on top of the other?
Animating Re-sizing: Maybe this is too much to ask? To zoom out?
Thank You!
C

Based on my experience, zoom-in and outs of large files are generally the number one culprit in performance slowdowns. In your animation, between the zoom-out on the ball and background and the animations on the balls (multiple fade transitions and rotations), there's a lot to process at once. My first couple of suggestions are to decrease the the file size on the background image (the tree) and then to only begin the ball animations once the zoom out has completed. I'm guessing the background image is the 500kb image you referred to. Try taking it down to whatever quality is best before it's noticeably compromised. There's no fast rule for appropriate sizes – much of its depends on what you want to do with it and the platform it's going to run on. For instance, I noticed that the animation runs smoothly in Chrome while it has the hardest time in Firefox.

AE CC 2014.1 - layer selection and bounding box issue.

Upgraded to AE CC 2014.1 yesterday and now the Bounding Box around layers does not appear when hovering the mouse down the layers in the timeline.
When dealing with many overlapping layers, a quick way of finding elements was to hover the mouse down the layers in the timeline which then showed a bounding box around that layer in the composition window.
Am I missing something? Has this been omitted... or is there a preference I can't see... or is this a bug?

Hi Tom,
I will say only this, and then nothing further on this thread, on the discussion of the new user interface design in After Effects CC 2014.1. (I dislike thread hijacking.)
We are looking at all of the feedback being provided. We want to you to voice your opinion. Please be specific as to what problems you are having with the new user interface design.
I also want to note here that the blue color alone is not what is generating feedback. "Blue" is being used as a collective term for the changes, but I fear that such generalization is creating a false impression that simply changing the color will resolve the complaints. There have been many, many small changes of which the highlight color is only one. We need to hear specifically from you which of the changes you dislike, whether it's the blue color specifically, or the brightness/contrast of the blue, or the brightness or design of other parts of the user interface, and in which contexts it causes a problem.
So please let us know what you think, here on the forums in a new thread or one of the existing threads, or send us your feedback privately: adobe.ly/feature_request
You haven't seen many replies from us on the other threads because we want to receive your honest feedback. The new user interface design has been available to you for all of one week as of today, and now is the time for us to listen to you.
-=Tim

Photo within a photo

Hi all,
I'm new to the forum as well to Photoshop itself, so please pardon the newbee questions.
In putting together art work for CDs and DVDs, I would like to put a small photo within a larger one. I assume you would overlap layers (?) But when I open a new photo (the smaller one) it has its own set of layers.
How do I set a photo within another?
To clarify, I'm using Photoshop Elements 3.
Thanks,
--Barry

Barry
Working with layers is confusing for many new users so don't feel too frustrated.
Method 1
Open Image 1.
Open Image 2.
Click Windows>Images>Tile.
You can now drag your second photo into the first photo. It should create its own layer that you can move/resize with the Move Tool.
Method 2
Open the image you want to move.
Select All Edit Copy.
Close this image.
Open the image you want to hold both images.
Edit Paste.
It should create its own layer that you can move/resize with the Move Tool.
The only difference is how many windows you have open at one time. I prefer working with only one open window, but that is strictly personal preference.

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