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[Syahir Hakim]

Syahir Hakim

#18088

There’s really no need to change the sprite file if you’re just changing the buttons. Just create a new image file or a new sprite for those buttons, and then use CSS to apply the new background to those buttons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous

#18089

Ken, my pleasure. I appreciate working with creative minds.

Syahir, I still have a lot to learn about css sprites. I haven’t had much time to read up on it. I still need to grasp how you display a certain height and width just by referencing one point on the sprite graphic. And is it ALWAYS the top, left of the image you reference with the actual numerical value?

Also, I’ve been playing around on the sprite for a while. I’ve already modified the rss, twitter, and facebook icons; the date calendar background, the slider circle icons, and the menu arrows is my next task.

I use Photoshop, and I just hid the layers of the originals and added new layers for my “new” icons. That way, I can keep the pdf on my server, and always be able to fall back on older images if needed. (Just re-open in Photoshop, and un-hide those layers).

[Kenneth John Odle]

Kenneth John Odle

#18090

With Photoshop, you can always “save for web” (or maybe it’s “export for web”? — I forget which), so you can keep a regular .psd and then export changes as a .png, thus preserving transparency.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous

#18091

Hmmm, I’ll have to look into that and see if it will cut my steps down.

I usually do the editing in photoshop, and then just save to my desktop as a .png file, then I also save the .psd file itself. Then I just ftp both to my graphene directory. The .psd never gets called, but it’s always right there if I ever need to do another modification.

There’s probably a better way… but this works for me.