Help Aligning...

[esanabri]

for the life of me, I can't get the graphics to go to the very left side...

Any sugestions?

[John Rayner]

Hi Ernesto,

If this is for a website, I would just create the bulk of it in X1, except for the rotating X. I would save that as a .gif and just slice and dice the x1 pic to fit around the gif... if would make for a much smaller picture and a smoother fade.

[esanabri]

Ummm... I did not think about that... so making the X transparent would do the trick?

I'm worried about the checkered background...

[fencepost]

Hi, Ernesto.

To move the text, hold down Ctrl-Alt-Shft and, when a 4-headed arrow pops up with a little circle in the center of it, drag the text to wherever you want.

Art

[stlewis]

Art

I think it's even easier - just Alt.

[fencepost]

Thanks, Simon. You may be right (I may be crazy) http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif. Sometimes my computer keystrokes work one way one time, another the next. That's one of the wonderful "designs" of Microsoft.

Art

[esanabri]

Yes! Alt key does the trick, just make sure the mouse is over the text/graphics if not the backgroud moves!

[John Rayner]

Hi Ernesto,

What is the final file size? If you do a sliced bitmap it will be much smaller I would imagine. .jpgs are always smaller in a blend. .Gifs are sharper.

To recreate your banner I would do a table with the fade as a .jpg as a background and create a couple transparent gifs for the rest... Should come out looking good and much, much smaller. Maybe under 10K...

[Egg Bramhill]

The keyboard short cuts for moving the text are:
Alt To move in any direction.
Alt/Ctrl To move in horizontal plane only.
Alt/Shift To move in vertical plane only.
Egg