Macromedia Contribute 3 Tutorial
Working with Images
Once you have inserted an image in your page, Contribute has built-in image editing features that enable you to adjust or change your image. When your image is selected, you will see an image editing toolbar displayed.
This toolbar gives you access to some common image editing features, including:
- Resize
- Rotate
- Crop
- Sharpen
- Brightness/Contrast
You can also specify the width and height of your image and its alignment on the page. If you change the width, Contribute will automatically change the height of your image to maintain its current proportions, and vice versa.
Note: Avoid making your images larger than their original sizes, as this will degrade their quality.
To view the image properties, click the image properties button on the far left of this toolbar.
This will open a window where you can control detailed settings for your image.
You can specify a horizontal and vertical padding that will cusion the image from other elements (such as text) on the page.
You can specify an alignment of left, right, or center. This will cause text to flow around an image.
You can also specify a border by entering a number into the border field. For example, entering "1" here will give the image a one pixel wide border.
The Description (ALT text) is the text the browser will display while an image is loading, if the user has images disabled, or if a user visits your site with a non-visual browser. It is generally a good idea to give all of your images an Alt description. For example, the above screenshot has an Alt description of "image properties window."
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