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1. Gallei and Gallery Lite User s manual Covers 1 1 Page 2 Gallery amp Gallery Lite Contents IBECOOH CEN usce 3 paie eave 29 09009 08 Saw ECRIRE COE wR eee 2 9 ER ACE CO UE es 5 AcRDowledgemielits 3 633 99409 9 33 9 298 09 E CU Se ee bah UAE AN M RECEN Se ee ee 5 CODUHUDLU 5 208 266454 9 837 9X09 8 9 9 913 0908 9 0995 98 8 0 808730 ES SH Eee tee 9 4 09 EORR 5 ADOUCING ACUIONNS resi pe eh ed bed eee ee eee een eed PORC RR ewe RO PR NEC o 8 6 What fev 00 lt 406 ca 3 339 9 4 9 299 RE SERERE EAR ee X43 ETT RE 6 GSS AEE ESO MEX 6 Gallery UNG us 92499 esa ee 9344939993 934 93 13 5 4593443193499 9 4 3413995 4 2354 9 6 GAG ua 49 9 9 R99 99 80 9 3 97k R09 VR ee VORCROS V 8UROR 9 RAD eb eee eee eee OU COE as 6 GDDMIC ENOM OS Ee TtEItttftclotct tot 1 27 157127275 127 7 711 212727 TT TT TTITT 7 IMOOING T rPCC PPCCCIUTTT TUTPTPUTUPUPTTPTUUTPPPUT 7 GIaphIC CONVEN 56246 94 XX 4665 54 RGO HR K4 R4O EPA RR Oe ORG SESS 6 oad EGG REG 7 Selecting the Graphics Engine cce ms 8 Using She ATON o3 39 9 644 4 666 5 5 9 3 de 9 P EC 9321 273 9 29 39 9 399 G7 3 9 E599 90 02 5 9 C 9 Installing the Gallery Lite Action eee 9 Installing the Gallery ACUOD doom e ar bee weed bon doa ated CY hed bee eee 9 Upgrading from Gallery Lite to Gallery ce m mtt 9 Set UD ADDISSCHIDE S 43 399 9 9 999193 397979 9 99 1 38 9798 8 193 320579 PURI E 39D REOR Vo 9 Preparing Your Ima2. Oo 60 eG rerepa anenee ena 17 NAVIGAUONs sasiaren ae eaae 18 WSE TEXCLINKS o0 60 ooo ed deere Raa eae eee hee Soe Oe ee ee eee eRe wae 18 JU AO mP CPD L 18 FOU S esee ar nos OR Goatees he ge Gee P EAE ww CREE ANS RUPEE S KA REGES G EAT BS 18 BACKWO ec N95 ad Ree ee eee ee eee see ee DATES SS UESRERET VETERAN EANRRES SESS S 18 NOC ew ee ake eens hak en eae eee eee wae eae eres oe eae we 18 2e e reas 18 SE CN MED C KNTERETIDIECEITTIDTOCTIIIROCICIQITCITIT IT TIEOTTPTUTET 19 liclure TWEAKS 2 5929143 3 908 CUR GERE CURAR 155048 GATHERS SERS DGGE OS REN 19 Eere TEENE EEE EE E E QUITTER 19 Grayscale Effect iMagine Video only ee ee ee ee eee ee nn 19 Brightness Contrast ssa RE TESTS mee eens sehen be OS bE Bae RTT IITIT P TPTT 20 SARUM NR E E ECTS ETT TTtttttctt ttt tt ttt ccc CODLUIRLTUTIDOTTLTTT 20 fou c r Or rrrm 20 Sharpen Magie sss 3 535293 3 9 9 2 ee E Ea ESTPSREREEESESRSSGI ETSR e SEE RE E 20 Unsharp Mask Graphic Converter s u a aco dw de one Red CRALRCR Rh Ee in 30 Fae oe RG Oe xs EOS 20 NSgdERUB I sS a 654 4 a bas A yae es ae Gul oa eee e eens Se aus shoe eee ee one ete ese PES 20 ip CPP 20 II rtccPPCTPrrrrrrrrT 20 WSC TEME 1 53 9932x499 35x kee ees Cade Ree ee Gees METER AS EASPRETAERS Su 20 lo r n 21
3. iuc Gia Goebeene deve eteesepeducd ees toned eeear cena Sead dad eens ecuaedaus 21 MOVE INGCINGS 6 6ac 5a 5600 46 OOO ROO Gee LLL 11 71777 11727 7175 7T 22 MAKING INGCIIGS 40 w 54 0 3 9 RE 309 C99 91039 9 9 409 89 9b OOba See E PRO CHER idc n 22 Page 4 Gallery amp Gallery Lite Introduction A frequent question the pops up on Freeway Talk is this How do I make a Gallery in Freeway This is becoming a fairly fundamental question for most Freeway users a lot of applications create them iPhoto does via a Mac account Photoshop and Elements offer a gallery type function Whilst you can build a gallery in Freeway and there is a Knowledge Base article to tell you how it s not automated You have to build each image and its associated pop up manually Which is fine if you have a few images to show but what is you have a larger number The Gallery Action and Gallery Lite Actions allow you to build interactive galleries in Freeway all without having a lift a finger to write code You just tell the Action where your images are hit a button in Freeway and make some tea or coffee whilst your bank of images are processed These Action make creating galleries in Freeway really simple and they keep to the ethos of Freeway making something complex incredibly simple Acknowledgements At this point I d like to thank Softpress for their support and encouragement with the development of these Actions I ve been given access
4. to the testing folk on the team Big thanks to Richard Anna James and Dan for testing Kevin for making iMagine available to Action writers and thanks to Alan for his advice on making Actions and for helping me think around some of the pithier issues that this particular Action raised Copyright This manual the Gallery and Gallery Lite Actions and associated images are Copyright 9 Paul Dunning 2005 Softpress Freeway Actions are trademarks of Softpress www softpress com All other trademarks are acknowledged Page 5 About the Actions What they do The Actions allow you to create galleries of images on a page You will draw out a table apply the Action to it and then assign a folder of images to the Action When ready the Action will process the images using Graphic Converter and produce a page of thumbnails which when clicked on will open a larger image in a new window There are two Actions in the Gallery Suite One is free and the other requires a purchase Hopefully you are reading this because you have purchased a copy of the Action If so thank you for your custom and I hope you enjoy creating Galleries with it If you have not purchased the Action you can still download Gallery Lite that gives you the facility to create limited galleries with Freeway Hopefully you will decide that the full Gallery Action is a must have Gallery Lite This Action allows you to create a gallery with up to 20 images per gallery You can on
5. users will notice that their interface has a few more options available to them These will be covered later on in the manual Installing the Gallery Lite Action When you have downloaded the sit file you will have a folder with two items in it One will be an Action Gallery Lite the other will be an AppleScript droplet called Gallery Correct File Type Put the Gallery Lite Action in your Freeway Actions folder and the droplet somewhere safe on your Hard Disk Installing the Gallery Action When you have downloaded the sit file you will have a folder with two items in it The folder will contain the Action Gallery and it s Themes folder The other will be an AppleScript droplet called Gallery Correct File Type Put the Gallery Folder in your Freeway Actions folder and the droplet somewhere safe on your Hard Disk Upgrading from Gallery Lite to Gallery If you are upgrading from Gallery Lite to Gallery follow these simple steps 1 Save any open documents and Quit Freeway 2 Remove the Gallery Lite Action from your Freeway Actions Folder 3 Put the Galley FOLDER into your Freeway Actions Folder 4 Restart Freeway All your sites with the Gallery Lite Action should now be upgraded to work with the Gallery Action You can now use the extra features that the Gallery Action offers Set up AppleScript Before you can start to use this Action you need to ensure that AppleScript is enabled for Actions To do this go to the Freewa
6. Lite Gallery Action Unlike the Gallery Lite Action the Gallery Action offers a many more processing options ODO Actions Graphic Engine age PA Select an image Coscoo79sPc My Thumbnail colour C White P JPEG Quality S 75 Large image size Max long 640 Max short 490 b Captions Navigation Picture Tweaks Themes This Action can process up to 250 images Visit http www actionswarld cam for more Actions re These will be covered in this section These options are NOT available in the Gallery Lite Action Page 15 Captions You may wish to add captions to your images These will appear under the thumbnail on the page This will cause the height of the table to increase when the page is published Y Captions Caption Atomium 8 Caption Style Caption Append file name eet On new line Image File This drop down is the list of images in your Gallery If the list is unpopulated then process the gallery first This drop down allows you to select an image for caption editing Caption Style You may well want to style your Captions To do this create a permanent style in your Freeway document and create an HTML box somewhere on your page it can be on the pasteboard Add some dummy text to the box and apply the style to the text Now select the Gallery table and type the name of the style as it appears in Freeway s Style palette into this field in the Action palette Caption This field can
7. Tables Draw out a table onto the page Make sure that all the cells are the same size The Action uses this table to hold the thumbnails and it requires that each cell is equally sized The cell padding and spacing options as well as the border of the table will be preserved These can help space your thumbnails on the page Apply the Gallery Lite Action to the table The cell padding and cell spacing of the table will be preserved when the page is published Note that the cells are all evenly sized Do not merge cells or make them different sizes the gallery layout will break apart if you do Note that the size of the thumbnail is governed by the first cell in the table Selecting a Graphics Engine The top most drop down in the Actioons Palette allows you to choose from either iMagine or Graphic Converter to process the Gallery images I recommend iMagine partly because it is free for use with Freeway but also because it offers more flexibility with drawing and image manipulation If you are using Mac OS 9 you should select Graphic Converter as iMagineis a Mac OS X only application Page 12 Gallery amp Gallery Lite Selecting the Images Folder You now have to point the Gallery Lite Action to your folder of images Using the Select and Image Drop Down navigate to an image in your folder and select it 000p Actions Select an image pscoozes Pea ie Thumbnail calaur C White M9 JPEG Quality qam 5 Large ima
8. aces Y Picture Tweaks Y Picture Tweaks Greyscale None m Greyscale None HH Brightness Contrast None HH Greyscale e hit TE Brightness ge ens 0 Brightness Contrast None H Contrast s T Ir Bnghtness C Unsharp Mask None rt Contrast 4 x zn Radius M 1 Sharpening None Fd t ces Amount e 1 ld P ns Megative None ri Negative None FJ 4 7 Y Above Left the iMagine options Above Right the Graphic Converter options These options will affect all images in the Gallery you can not select processing options for individual images Grayscale This drop down determines which image is converted to a grey scale you can choose from None Both Thumbnail or Large Image Grayscale Effect iMagine Video only This allows you to select the kind of effect that the grayscale will be you can choose from either a simple conversion to a black and white image or use one of the other gray scale effects available from iMagine You can apply a sepia tone cobalt deep blue x ray or a tint If you select Tint you should select a colour using the Tint colour drop down Page 19 Brightness Contrast Again this determines which images are affected by the Brightness and Contrast sliders None Both Thumbnail or Large Image Brightness Use this slider to adjust the brightness of the image Contrast Use this slider to
9. adjust the contrast of the image Sharpen iMagine When images are scaled detail can be lost JPEG compression can also introduce some fuzziness into the image The Sharpen function can help compensate for this Use the amount slider to select one of seven levels of sharpening Unsharp Mask Graphic Converter When images are scaled detail can be lost This can help recover such damage as well as correct for the fuzziness that JPEG compression can give Use the Radius amount and Threshold to set the unsharp settings for Graphic Converter You may want to check your Graphic Converter documentation for a full explanation of these settings Note that Unsharp Mask has the largest impact on image processing time of all the Graphic Converter Tweaks Negative This will invert the colour space of the image giving a negative Notes After changing any of these settings you should reprocess the gallery Themes The Gallery Action uses themes to create borders around the thumbnails The Action ships with a selection of themes to get you started Y Themes yi Use themes Theme None M Use Theme When this check box is on the Action will add a theme to the Gallery Page 20 Gallery amp Gallery Lite Theme Select your theme here There is a choice of themes offering various frames and film like borders to the gallery Most themes benefit from a cell spacing being set in the Table s Inspector Palette However the Film and Film p
10. also be used to edit the caption When the page is published your caption will appear under the thumbnail Atomium Page 16 Gallery amp Gallery Lite Append Filename Some people like to have the filename of the original image as part of the caption Setting this option to on will append this informaiton to the caption On New Line This option will put the image s filename under the caption Preview Image If your images have come from a digital camera the file names will be pretty meaningless This button will open the selected image in Preview if you are using iMagine or Graphic Converter and will display a prompt for you to enter a caption When you click OK in this window Preview if you are using iMagine or Graphic Converter will close the image and the Caption will be set for that image If you click Cancel the image window will close but the caption will not be sent back to Freeway Page 17 Navigation You will more than likely have more images than you have allowed space for on the page The Gallery Action can handle up to 250 images per gallery so you need to create some way of moving between pages of images This is handled with the Navigation section of the Gallery Actions Palette Y Navigation Use text links Slave Group indigo P Forward No PH Backward CH gt Use Text Links When this check box is off the default setting you can set up navigation using any Action t
11. ge size Max long 640 Max short 450 This Action can process up to 25 images Visit httpc actions worldofpaul com for more Actions mu When you have selected the images click on the Process Gallery button The Action will start up Graphic Converter and the images and thumbnails will be created There will be two new folders created within the folder containing the original images these contain the thumbnails and full size images that Freeway references when it publishes the site e If you are using Imagine there will be little visual feedback that the processing is running iMagine is a background application and as such all its workings are hidden Sadly there is no direct way to provide feedback on the process in Freeway so it can look as if Freeway has hung Every 20 images a dialog window will open up for 1 second giving progress reports When the gallery has been processed a dialog window will open to tell you that it is complete e If you are running Graphic Converter in demo mode or have just installed it on your Mac a number of windows will open before it is ready to run This usually causes the Action to hang and you may have to force quit Freeway This happens because Freeway is expecting Graphic Converter to be instantly ready In such cases you should start Graphic Converter manually and clear all such windows before running this aspect of the Action Page 13 Gallery Lite Options There are a numbe
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13. hat can send regular Freeway slave Chain messages such as the RollOver Action Set up two such items on your page one for forward and one for backward The slave chain set in this Action should reflect settings in the Gallery Action Slave Group The Action will listen for the specified Slave Group message to navigate through the images Forward Use the number set in the Forward controlling Actions here Backward W Navigation Use the number set in the Forwa IM Use text links Mext Nest Back Back style for links BodyText Alternatively you can switch the Use Text Links check box ON The Action will append text to the bottom of the table with links applied to them These will let you page back and forward through the images Next Enter the text you want to use for the Forward link Back Enter the text you want to use for the Backward link Page 18 Gallery amp Gallery Lite Style for Links In the same way as you did for the captions enter a named style in this field This style must be somewhere on the page for it to be published Picture Tweaks As we are using an external application to process the files we can use some of the other features available to the AppleScript Note that these add time to the processing of images so a large number of files may take longer to process than normal As iMagine and Graphic Converter offer slightly different functions the Action Palette will change in a few pl
14. ly have one Gallery of images per Freeway page Gallery This Action offers the same basic functionality of the Gallery Lite Action but with the following additions e You can have 250 images per page blink and read that again 250 images e A gallery page can contain more than one page worth of images A simple text link or a Slave Chain can be used to navigate between pages e mages can be adjusted using Graphic Converter whilst the Gallery is processed e Captions can be applied to images e hemes you can put graphical borders around the thumbnails Page 6 Gallery amp Gallery Lite Qo e Graphic Engines The Action relies heavily on other applications for the image processing There are two it can use one being a Mac 0S X only application and the recommended one to use Please ensure that you have one of these applications on your machine before using the Gallery Action Both Gallery Actions allow you to select which application you use for graphic processing iMagine A special version of this application from Yarra Valley Software has been made available free to Freeway users The limitation of this application is that it will only work with calls from a Freeway Action To use the application for other tasks iMagine Video is a Mac OS X only application It will run in Jaguar 10 2 8 and Panther 10 3 x This is a much faster application and so galleries will be processed much faster It is recommended that you use thi
15. ortrait themes are designed with cell spacing and cell padding options set to 0 in the Inspector Palette Notes e After changing a theme you should reprocess the gallery e hemes take space from the thumbnail space so try to increase the size of your gallery s table if they seem too small Atomium The Mahogany Theme Page 21 Atomium The Chrome Theme More Themes The Gallery Action uses the same theme format as those used by the Text Box Decoration Action To use a Text Box Decoration Action first ensure that the theme to be uses is a 3x3 theme Navigate to the Themes folder next to the Text Box Decoration Action Open it and you will see a number of folders Copy the desired theme folder to the Themes folder next to the Gallery Action That theme should now be available to the Gallery Action Making Themes This is covered in detail on my Actions site in the Text Box Decoration Action section Visit www actionsworld com for more information and Photoshop templates Page 22 Gallery amp Gallery Lite Page 23
16. r of options available to you in the Actions Palette Thumbnail Colour The Action creates thumbnails the exact size of the table cell to which the Action has been applied in order to be Internet Explorer friendly The background of the thumbnail has to have a colour and by default white is selected However if your page colour is different you can choose it from this drop down and the Gallery action will use this as the background colour of the thumbnails JPEG Quality This slider controls the JPEG Quality of the saved images Note that this is value is sent to Graphic Converter value so it may give differing settings to Freeway Max Long and Max Height This controls the over all size of the main image when it appears By default and image that fits into a space of 640x480 pixels will be created Tall images will be no larger than 480x640 When to Process the Gallery Gallery Process is not automatic this is because processing can take a while and a number of Galleries can add significantly to publishing time Also several changes that the Action can not detect may require the Gallery to be reprocessed You should process the gallery when any of these changes occur e You add or remove images from the gallery image folder e You edit images in the gallery image folder e You change the size of the table to which the Action is applied e You change any of the options in the Gallery Actions Palette Page 14 Gallery amp Gallery
17. s application for gallery processing It has been developed by Kevin Meaney one of the Softpress engineers iMagine is much faster than Graphic Converter and so your galleries will be processed in a fraction of the time It is recommended that you use this software if you can You can download iMagine from here http www yvs eu com downloads2 iMagine app sit Yarra Valley Software s web site is here www yvs eu com Graphic Converter You must have at least version 5 2 3 for this Action to work This is mostly due to improvements in stability in Graphic Converter when saving images using AppleScript However some of the other enhancements offered by the Action may not be available in earlier versions of this excellent application Note that support for this application is provided for Mac OS 9 compatability purposes only Graphic Converter is shareware I strongly recommend that you pay the license fee This manual assumes that you have done so You can download the latest version of GraphicConverter from www lemkesoft de Page 7 Selecting the Graphics Engine At the top of the Gallery Action s interface in the Action Palette is a dropdown select either iMagine or Graphic Converter iMagine is the default setting Page 8 Gallery amp Gallery Lite Using the Actions This section of the manual will tell you how to create a gallery using the Gallery Lite Action These instructions cover both Actions though Gallery
18. y preferences and make sure that the AppleScript check box is on Page 9 Application Preferences LTT Bitmap colors Millions H Arrows nudge 1 pt Pasteboard width SOdpt kal Make Backups FA C Show Help Tags Grids Guides Immediately Hm Old Selection Behavior kal Enable AppleScript in Actions set Browser Margin in HTML 3 2 Output Cancel Preparing Your Images Before diving into Freeway you need to gather your images that you wish to use in your gallery The Action supports JPEG GIF PNG images as well as TIFF and Photoshop PSD Create a new folder in Finder and give it a name the reflects your gallery s contents This will not be used by the action but it will help you locate it later Collect your images together and put them into your new folder It is possible that some of the images have come from a digital camera or from iPhoto These files may not have a filetype set something that Freeway needs to be able to locate the images Drag any JPEG or TIFF images these are the two formats that are most likely to be affected onto the Gallery Correct File Type droplet that came with the Action This will set the file types correctly Page 10 Gallery amp Gallery Lite hs local dish EET E PU GE T m1 2 e TOR Dna Z Page 11 e e Working in Freeway Launch Freeway and create a new document or load an existing one Move to a page where the Gallery is to be put Working with
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