About changing the appearance of graphics
You can use Microsoft FrontPage to change graphics in the following ways:
Crop
By cropping a graphic, you can remove areas of the graphic that you don't want to use. Cropping also lets you change the proportions of the graphic; for example, you can crop a graphic so that it is shorter.
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Add text
You can add text on top of a graphic. The text you add will not affect the size of the graphic file in your Web site.
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Change brightness and contrast
You can increase or decrease the brightness of a graphic, as well as increase or decrease the contrast of color in a graphic; for example, to sharpen a graphic.
| More brightness | Less brightness |
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| More contrast | Less contrast |
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Apply a grayscale
You can convert a graphic to black and white (grayscale).
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Add or remove borders
You can add a beveled border to a graphic to give it a raised, three-dimensional appearance. This feature is useful if you want to use the graphic as a button. You can also add a 1,2,3, or 4-sided border around a graphic and pick its style and color.
Note If the graphic has a default hyperlink, the border will have the colors that you specified for hyperlinks.
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Set a transparent color
You can select one color in a graphic to be transparent, and then wherever that color appears, the background will show through. Each graphic can have only one transparent color. If you select a transparent color for a graphic that already has one specified, the original transparent color will no longer be transparent.
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Rotate and flip
You can rotate a graphic 90 degrees clockwise or counterclockwise. You can also flip a graphic horizontally (which turns the graphic upside down) or vertically (which makes a mirror image).
| Rotate left | Rotate right |
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| Flip horizontally | Flip vertically |
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