5) Customizing your photos
To add your photos to any page, simply drag and drop a photo file from the Windows File Explorer. If you drop the
photo on the page or on top of some text, it is added as a new photo (which you can move and resize as described
previously).
If you drop the photo on top of an existing photo, it will replace that photo. Try it on the photo at the top of the
first page. This photo is set to be an automatic expanding thumbnail on the website. That is you can click the small
thumbnail version and it pops-up a larger version. This is easy to do for any of your photos.
The panel below contains rollover photos. In the Browser Preview, go to the Photos page and move over the
thumbnails. Now drag and drop you own photos onto the thumbnail images below and try the preview again. Notice
how it automatically produces the rollover effect for any photo.
Let’s get a bit more ambitious. First delete the above photo panel to move it out the way (click
on it in the Selector Tool and press the Delete key).
Open the Designs Gallery (File -> New from Designs Gallery), or click this icon.
Scroll to a folder category called Photo Objects and click the small blue folder to open this
category. Scroll down until you find an object called ‘Photo frame 1’. Now drag this from
the gallery and drop it on this page. You now have a Polaroid style photo object, like the
one on the left. You can reposition it, resize it, rotate it and edit the captions using the Text
Tool as described above.
Try the Photo Tool to enhance your photos. Select the Camera tool on the left.
Now click on any photo and, using the controls at the top, adjust the various settings such as brightness, color, etc.
The last slider control alters the blur / sharpen. Try it on the peacock picture on the left.
My Holiday snaps
Move the mouse pointer over the above thumbnail images to see
an enlarged version to the left.
Caption text, image 1
Content Management through Web Designer, with Ronald Schexnayder.