If you have a group of pictures you want to put up on the web quickly, then this tutorial is for you. Dreamweaver will process a group of images and index them as thumbnails as well as put each full sized image on it's own page with navigation.
You will need to have Fireworks installed to do create the Web
Photo Album.
Create a new document, then follow these steps below :
- Go up to Commands>Create Web Photo Album...
- Photo Album Title : this will go at the top of the web page.
- Subheading and Other Info if desired : these will be under the Title.
- Source Image Folder : click the Browse button to navigate to your source images.
- Destination folder : Click Browse... to choose the destination folder.
- Choose a Thumbnail Size by clicking the drop down menu.
- You can choose to have the file name of each image displayed by selecting the "Show Filenames" option.
- Columns is the number of columns for the thumbnails.
- Choose a format for Thumbnails.
- Choose a format for Photos.
- If you want to scale your images do so by fill a percentage value in the Scale field.
- If you want a navigation bar for each page (text based) select the last option.
Click OK to create the album.
- Fireworks will open and begin processing both the thumbnails and the
images. When it's completed, you'll get a dialog window telling you the
album was created. Be patience
Hope it helps :)