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Image Editing Properties
Disclaimer: Frontpage is not a photoshop, so don't think it is. It can only be used to edit images and not produce images or make them of a "top" quality, so don't think it is.
Let's start by posting a picture on your blank page. To do this click Insert -> Image. Now, select an image, most computers do have at least one image on it so there's no excuse for you not having one. Your page thus far looks like this:
Look it's a perdy picture of Mick Foley, ain't that nice? Now what I want you to do is click on the image once, and only once:
Nothing changed right? Wrong, look on the bottom of the screen, a new bar of icons has lit up. Amazingly these wee little icons will be used to help you do crap with images. But for now, you don't need that since I'm going to show you the "menus" of images. Of course there are only two but you're going to sit your ass down and hear my lectures on them. Okay, where was I, yes, right click on the image and select image properties.
In this little menu you'll find three fields of interest, image source, text, and location. Image source is simply where you find the image. This is good if you opened up the wrong file and dumbly realized it. It's also nice for getting images off of other people's servers and using their bandwidth instead of yours. Text is also known as "Alt" it's used such that when your mouse is on the image some text appears with a description of some sort. Location is for linking the image, under it is targetting, check frames guide to learn targetting. Now, moving on you'll notice tabs on the top of this menu, move over to appearance.
This is a neat little menu. If you look on the top you'll notice all kinds of cool functions. These are used to move your image in alignment, position, and add a border to your image, pretty groovy huh? A bit lower you'll notice you can change the size of an image. Recognize what pixels and what percent is before you attempt this.
Now we're going to get into the fun crap. Get out of that menu and click on the image. That menu pops up. You'll notice three shapes right away, a rectangle, a hexagon, and a deformed circle. Next to it is an arrow pointing to a box. These are used to make hotspots. This is a form of navigation. If you're extremely good at making graphics this is a suggested mean of navigation for you. the hexagon and deformed circle for the most part are useless to you. Your best bet is going with the rectangle. Simple select the image, select the rectangle and pull it on the area at which you want the URL to be. Than fill in the URL, and when you try it out you should have an image that when you hover your mouse over your "hot spot" it turns into a URL. AMAZING!
Our next feature is more recognizable, it's a text poster. It's so damned easy, do I have to explain it? You just click on the letter, select the image and you'll get an option to put text in, put your bloody text in. When you save the page that picture will save as a new graphic.
Still more cool feautres. Check out Wash out an image. This feature will wash the colors and mix them with others. Next we have Change to black and white, which changes it to a monocrome picture. The restore button will change the image to it's natural form, no what you do to it.
The common rotate and flip buttons rotate and flip the image, whoopdedo
Contrast and Brightness allow you to make it more contrasted, or less bright, etc. It's not too obvious is it?
Bevel does what it says, bevels the image. It gives it a border that moves outward, very c00l.
That concludes this crappy tutorial, I hope you rot and die, and hopefully have learnt something before you die.