: Rollover in Fireworks without slice tool I want to create an imagemap in Fireworks CS5 on which certain parts shall change when I roll over with the mouse. These parts shall contain links to

@Holmes874

Images (PNG, GIF, JPG, etc) are always rectangular. So if the intent is to make image-based rollovers, yes, they would be rectangular.

Options:


create an image map for each image that triggers the rollover
use one large image, with each image map region triggering a swap of the overall image


Note that while image maps still have their place, these tend to be rather antiquated solutions in a lot of cases--especially using FW's generated code to handle it. It might be easier to use CSS or a JS library to handle it these days.

UPDATE:

Based on your comment, here's one way to accomplish your goal:

Let's say the class photo has 10 people in it. What you need is to create 11 versions of this image. One 'as-is' then 10 with each individual person highlighted.

Now you can apply an image map using any shapes you want around each face. Upon each roll-over of that hot-spot, you now need to swap out the entire background image to make it look like that one head is being highlighted.

The drawback here, of course, is that you have to load 11 images--which may not be practical in terms of speed and bandwidth.

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