We have a requirement to display short / bigger size images. (e.g. I could have the front portion of the bus, back portion of the bus and middle portion of the bus as separate images).
So to demonstrate the above, I could try
front,middle,middle,back (to construct shorter image)
front,middle,middle,middle,middle,back (to construct bigger image)
Are there any sites which let you download such images (i.e. they are already split) OR what would be an easier way to achieve this from an already available image.
You can use ImageMagick. Check the following example.
In your case if you want to split image only horizontally in (let's assume) 200px slices:
convert -crop 200 +repage verybig.jpg slice%02d.jpg
You could slice and dice an existing image with HTML/CSS, by setting up several adjacent elements with the same image as a background, then manipulating the widths and background position to get the desired effect.
Here's an example: http://jsfiddle.net/gjJcM/
You'd need to know something about the image content you're working with to make this seamless - I'd need more context to think in further detail.
HTH
The slicing and dicing can also be done with the Gimp.
Check out the Gimp's Filters->Map->Make-Seamless. It's used to make tiles join up seamlessly both horizontally and vertically. You can use it to make a horizontally repeatable tile by adding extra background above and below, and then after use cropping away the excess.
A more sophisticated tool for making the seamless join is panotools.
Combining the pieces at the end is easiest if you include half of the middle of the bus with the back and half of the middle with the front. You won't get a bus with no middle, but from the question, that's not something you needed.
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I am using impress.js to build a presentation. I have several steps arranged around a central image (a diagram). I can successfully position the steps around the image using data-x and data-y but when the presentation is 'on' each step, I want to offset the view so that you can see more of the central image.
How do I offset the presentation view for each step?
This question would be easier to answer if you had provided some specific code example. That said, I do understand what you're doing. You can position your step contents in multiple ways, all via CSS:
Set the slide width and height to values less than your screen. This will leave a margin outside the slide contents where your background / other image is visible.
Use margin or padding to do the same.
Use e.g text-align to flow the contents to one side, away from the image
You can just use a margin on the step to move it around.
I have this background that I'm using for a section, and it starts with a small arrow engraving at the top:
However I'm trying to get it when it repeats to clip out the top arrow part, just leaving the texture in the middle part. I was wondering if it was possible to do it with something like webkit? Thanks
You can't. You need to come up with another method of doing so. There are a number of ways to do this. Personally, I would use only the arrow, but use inner box-shadow for the shadows on everything else. This way you have smaller image being used, and it will always fit the size of the container.
Break up the background image from the pointer and make the two separate sprites. You can get tricky with the pointer and have it point in all 4 directions in the same image. This will allow you to pop up the bubble in all directions from the source.
You can't repeat both x and y on a usable sprite.
I have a maximum of three sprites in my projects.
One for non-repeating elements, another for repeat-x, another for repeat-y.
I find the clip property pretty much useless.
On an HTML page, you can make text flow around images with the CSS property "float". But this will only consider the image's rectangle, not transparent regions in the image. I now have an image that has large areas of full transparency, like for example a circular logo, and would like the text to flow around the circle contour of that logo, not the bounding rectangle. At least on the text-facing side of the image.
I know that CSS is probably not suitable for that task. But is there some workaround, like hidden divs or something that can achieve the same (or a similar) effect? Has somebody already seen such a thing?
I have written a PHP function for that now. It takes the PNG image and generates the <div> elements to make the text flow around another form than the image's rectangle. You can find the code here:
https://unclassified.software/source/shaped-image-flow
Update 2020/2021:
Now there is a CSS property for that: shape-outside. It can be given an image with transparency that will determine the outside shape to let the text flow around. If the visible image is already a PNG, the same image can be used for this CSS property. Additional margin can be added with shape-margin. Both are supported by anything except IE.
Example:
<img src="img/shape.png" style="shape-outside: url(img/shape.png); shape-margin: 1.5em;">
I really doubt you can do that easily without making a big mess, of tags, JavaScript or both. One way i can think is placing image on larger zindex and positioning div or divs behind it, and text would flow around them. It would be easiest to use smaller rectangle that excludes transparent areas. But then why not just crop/clip the image? Or you can try floating line height divs behind it, but I guess that it will get quite ugly pretty fast. Or you could try placing each line of text in span/div and positioning them manually or with js by calculating approximate shapes to those that are in the image. One other idea, of which I'm not sure: it might be possible do this using svg. But quick search does not show much promise ether.
Any way one more thing to consider, when doing something as experimental and complicated as this, in whatever way you do this, it will most likely be huge pain to make it work well across most browsers.
There is a css property that do just what you want
shape-outside include values of shapes you can use.
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/how-to-wrap-the-text-around-an-image-using-html-and-css/
I've noticed that recently sites began to keep images in one big image.
For example google.com
We see a lot of little images on left side. But really is one image:
How these images are cut and shown? (firebug says that it's just element with width and height, but where X and Y position is pointed and how?)
Thanks for reply
with css background the image is moved to the right position. the other part of the image is not shown, because the element with the image as background is exactly as big as the wanted picture part.
try changing the px values in the css in the background part. you should see the image moving
<span style="background-position:-20px -132px" class="micon"></span>
here you see the background-position which is used for this image
This technology is called CSS Sprite. To reduce the http connections number needed to load multiple images. Usually this is done by designer.
This is called "CSS Sprites".
There are a lot of informations on Internet about that. In random order :
Smashing Magazine
CSS Tricks
A List Apart
And many more ...
I want to layer 4 images on top of each other inside a table cell with css. Here is what I want the final image to look like:
The 4 images are:
The gray rounded corner rectangle
with the red shaded triangle and the
numbers
The blue bar
The lines on top of the bar
The yellow triangular indicator
All these images must be on top of each other within the a table-cell. The bar must be able to stretch (I would draw it with a css div with a variant width property if it's possible) and the triangle indicator to move, so the entire thing can't be one image.
Any ideas how to do this?
Note: any solutions have to work in IE6 and up, Firefox, and Chrome
Would this be what you want to do?: How to let an HTML image overlap another
If this was my challenge, I think I'd be looking at a full-fledged charting solution to make this a quick, painless process and give a better looking (and animated?) result.
Here's a near dead ringer that I found with some quick Google-Fu: http://www.fusioncharts.com/widgets/Gallery/Linear1.html
I've had to do a lot of charting of late for applications I build and I --used-- to hand-roll all my charts and tables. Not any more! Between HighChart, FusionCharts, and JqueryUI, it's all covered, no reason to invent the wheel....and they look better.