Slice, Dice, Chop and Peel. (Creating a Sliced Image) Part II.
Last month, we created a control panel image and exported it in slices. The reason we exported it in slices was so we could create small animations for the colored lights, similar to the image above (which was created by
cheating using Xara Modules to blend four images to produce an animated effect). This month, we'll create a series of small GIF animations and edit Xara's HTML table to substitute the animated GIF images for the static JPEG
images. It is much easier to show you than to try to describe the process. Just trust me. If I can do it then it cannot be that difficult!
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