Is there a tutorial to slice large images in Xara?

Hi Everyone!

I am about to create some web pages in Xara Photo & Graphic Designer. I don't have Xara Web Designer so my plan is to create the page in Xara using layers, slice the images and then export them in to an images folder. From there I plan to use CSS and HTML to position them and to style the web page. I know this can be done in Photoshop and even though Xara doesn't have Photoshop's capabilities, Xara is all that I have right now.

Has anyone else tried this? Are there any pitfalls or traps that I need to be aware of? I would prefer to use Photoshop for this but I can't afford it right now. I really need to be able to create websites using HTML and CSS and this seems like my only option.

Regards,

kpixel2009 :)

In your case you might want to download the trial of Web Designer Premium. You can import & organize the elements you created in P&GD, setup the navigation and publish the website.

You are making this too hard. Simply use straight lines and Combine Shapes > Slice Shapes. Xara will publish the sliced image in slices. See this example. http://gwpriester.xara.hosting/slice/

Xara creates the CSS and everything for you.

I want to thank the both of you for replying to my post. I will be printing out this thread and will use it as a guide. I hope you have a great day today! :)

Glad we could help. I moved this thread to the Web Design forum.

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Originally Posted by gwpriester

Glad we could help. I moved this thread to the Web Design forum.

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Gary, are you able to confirm the OP can do this with Xara Photo & Graphic Designer?
I am sure the Xara Preview will present everything you describe but can you then export a web page?

Acorn

The latest version of Photo & Graphics Designer 15 can set up a web page but it cannot create a website. In previous versions it could. But then marketing had to create 3-4 different products that we similar but different.

So you can still use the process I suggested, and you can export the image in slices (File > Export image in slices) but I believe you have to name each sliced image using the Apply Names name tag icon to name each slice.

I did this originally in Xara Designer Pro X which does the naming automatically.

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Originally Posted by gwpriester

The latest version of Photo & Graphics Designer 15 can set up a web page but it cannot create a website. In previous versions it could. But then marketing had to create 3-4 different products that we similar but different.
So you can still use the process I suggested, and you can export the image in slices (File > Export image in slices) but I believe you have to name each sliced image using the Apply Names name tag icon to name each slice.
I did this originally in Xara Designer Pro X which does the naming automatically.

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Thanks Gary and also to MagiXara for such a brilliant approach.

Acorn

Could I ask why you want to slice the image? Is it for an image map?