Problem with slicing tutorial

[talpa]

Hi there,

I tried to follow the slicing tutorial that you can find here.

I imported the .gif with the car, created the rectangles and made them semitransparent. Then the tutorial says that I should name the several slices (=rectangles).

Therefore I selected one of the rectangels with the Selector tool (arrow) but the icon to name slices (on the far right end of the Selector tool infobar) is not selectable (it is shown in light grey).

What have I done wrong? Thanks in advance!
talpa

[Availor]

Hello talpa, welcome to the forums.

I've made a video you can download HERE to watch the tutorial.
It is 4MB avi format file.

Regards,

Availor.

[talpa]

Hello Availor,

Thanks for the quick reply! I watched your video and I really like your way of e-learning! Now I know what to do. The tutorial that I mentioned in my first post seems to be very brief.

Regards to Israel,
talpa

[Availor]

Hello Availor,

Thanks for the quick reply! I watched your video and I really like your way of e-learning! Now I know what to do. The tutorial that I mentioned in my first post seems to be very brief.

Regards to Israel,
talpa

Thanks

You didn't post where you are from, so regards to whenever you are

[talpa]

I'm living in Frankfurt am Main (Germany).

The extension "am Main" describes that "my" Frankfurt is located at the river called "Main" because there is a second Frankfurt in the east of Germany next to the border of Poland.

Regards,
talpa

[bcire68]

Hallo Talpa,

Viele Grusse aus Texas und wilkomen zur der Forum.

Ich war fur Jaren in Fulda stationiert.

Excuse my spelling. It's bad no matter what language i'm writing.


Eric

[jclements]

Ich war fur 2.5 jaren in Neu Ulm (Sudd Deutshland, Bavaria) stationiert.
Biz 1971 - 1973.

:-}

John

[talpa]

Hi Eric & John!

Thanks a lot for being welcome! Hope that my spelling is correct?

Sorry that I reply so lately, I forgot to subscribe my own thread so that I did not receive a mail when somebody replies. I'm going to change that now!

Last Friday I was out with a colleague from my company who is from Michigan. Here at Frankfurt there was "Night of the clubs". For 11,- Euro you can enter a lot of different clubs all over Frankfurt. While speaking english a lot of people came other and talked to us. They came from everythere in the states. That was a really funny evening.

Here in my thread I just came along again because I still have the same problem. I'm preparing a picture to explain it and will be back in five minutes.

Regards, talpa

[talpa]

All right, I attached the picture. Here is my problem...

A brief overview of what I have done (according to the video of Availor):

1. I created a rectangle and put it on top of my picture.
2. With the Freehand Tool I drew two lines that divide my rectangle into three parts.
3. I selected the rectangle and one of the lines together and choosed "Slice (cut) Shapes" from the Arrange Menu.
4. I did the same with the remaining rectangle and the second line.
5. On my attached picture you can see, that I dragged the rectangle-pieces apart like in Availors video.
6. After that I selcted one piece of the rectangle in order to name the slice.
7. Unfortunately the button to name slices is not available (shown in light grey, marked with the red circle).

What have I done wrong?

Regards, talpa

[Kman]

Nice tutorial, Availor. Thank you for sharing it.

Ken