Shadow for a thumbnail...

[Web master]

Probably the easiest question of the day. I want my thumbnails to appear
like they cast a slight shadow on the page. The help tool tells me that I
should only have to select the image, and then the Shadow button on the
drawing toolbar. I have tried this several times but everytime I select
anything, not just the image, the Shadow button the Drawing toolbar remains
greyed out. BTW, I'm using Frontpage 2003.

Any ideas?

Ian

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

You really do not want to do this from within FP, as it will require all user to be running IE under
Windows, other users will see a low quality image. Be to create your image in a image editor
application with your shadow.

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[clintonG]

Use a real paint program such as Paint Shop Pro or the equivalent.
Too many of these "features" of FrontPage and other programs like this are
garbage.

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[Web master]

Thanks guys... please don't laugh, but i have PhotoShop LE and I still can't
figure it out! I will try to find PaintShopPro.

Thanks,

Ian

 

[clintonG]

Paint Shop Pro 10.02 is the latest release and has lost its ease of use as
it has become a near equivalent to PhotoShop. If you can find an old release
such as 4-7 you can pick it up easy. If not you should throw yourself in
front of a train ;-)

Stick it out with PhotoShop LE. There a gazillion of web pages with
tutorials.

<%= Clinton Gallagher

 

[Ronx]

The drop-shadow effect on the FrontPage drawing toolbar can only be
applied to objects created with the FrontPage toolbars, not to
images.As others have said, create the effect in a real graphics
editor.