Slicing to not get spacer.gif

[Shaun]

Once I slice my website up in Photoshop, I always get like 9 or 10 little images called spacer.gif? Why do they appear is there another way to cut it so this doesnt happen? I have looked at
http://www.graphic-forums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=346
but still to no avail.....Maybe Im just doing it wrong, I dont know. Any help would be greatly appreciated..

[alda.b]

To avoid spacer.gifs you need to make sure all slices meet up with one another... there can't be any empty space unclaimed by a slice. Does that make sense? It might help to zoom in and pan the image to see if you can find where there are empty spaces.

[Shaun]

ill try that and get back to you later on. THanks Alda B

[fever]

There needs to be the same amount of columns and rows. If one column goes over a row or visa versa a spacer.gif will happen to counter it so that it will look even. That's the best way I can word it.

[Shaun]

THanks im gonna try what you guys said later on tonight. Ive been having such a hard time with it... All this work and no where to store it :)

[Gooze]

Photoshop don’t set the size of rows and columns but use the spacer images instead. no way to avoid them other than removing them manually when its "rendered" or make the table as a unbroken "grid".

[Shaun]

oh well crap....im stuck then :(

[Harp2]

Gss,

Why not just PM Samuel? He is a GF Admin and stated in his post in the thread you pulled your example from, that he uses Dreamweaver with sliced images all the time. He even states that it does take about 4 hours to make it work. Those hours could be the time he spends removing the spacer .gif files you're currently wrestling with. It's worth a try. PM him.

Harp!

PS. Ignore anthing SeventhVirgo posts. He is on heavy medication for the "voices" as well as long conversations with pets. Yeah, you get the picture.

[SeventhVirgo]

I wouldn't PM Samuel if I were you teckaman, Sam scares me :(
I dont know man, he's a busy man with a busy life. I think you should really try to do it manually, cut off a part, and export that part, and put it into dreamweaver, do that with your whole layout. Experimenting pays off :grin:

[Shaun]

lol yea im trying to work through it ;(

[KendyChen]

I wonder too... please help!

[Shaun]

IM figureing it out abit, hardest part is geting everything to line up..

[Samuel]

I manually slice, I don't let it do it for me.

I don't end up with anything I don't want to end up with, thing is it takes a lot of practice.

I started with Dreamweaver 1 in.... 97? roughly when photoshop was version 3, and it was an uphill battle to mate the two applications.

What I love about them, and why I use them so extensively (Besides my inability (Actually that I suck at flash) is because those two applications are pixel level editing at their finest.

If you think on the pixel level when designing in photoshop, then dreamweaver can match what you do, not automatically though.

I design "To" dreamweaver, and visa versa.

Every one I have taught, I always have them make a really fast lame site in Photoshop, then have them slice it.

Is it what you wanted to end up with (Or what is in phtooshop), don't be suprised, the difference between automatic slicing, and manually slicing is that the automatic slicing tries to mimic what is in photoshop, no matter how bad it tries, it will do it.

Manual slicing allows you to see what should not be done, what is a waste of images, and also allows you to end up with something other than you had in photoshop.

Consider Hackmachine's site, he ended up with exactly what he wanted. What is in photoshop, is what is in the browser.

I don't design like that, but a lot of people do, Hydrofoil, Dubtastic (Not saying this is all they do, but they do, do this).

I design in photoshop, "For" dreamweaver, I don't just design.

When you say line up, maybe you're designing backwards. In that you're not thinking about dreamweaver when you're in photoshop.

You're thinking, this looks cool, I want this, then when you're done, you look at dreamweaver.

Try it another way, when you're in phtooshop think of dreamweaver more. Actually I have dreamweaver in my head about 10 minutes after I start something from scratch in photoshop.

When you've done 20 or 30 of these you start seeing the patters of development, photoshop is more lucid, dreamweaver more viscous (Chogged, it tends to just work one way), but photoshop allows you to just go mad, like me, just madd.....

[Shaun]

Hehe Thanks Samuel appreciate it, Im slowly beginning to figure it out. Im still confused just not as much. Thanks guys