macromedia Dreamweaver 8

Using a Tracing Image

At times, you might be given pages that someone else has designed in a graphics program (such as Macromedia FreeHand, Adobe Photoshop, or QuarkXPress) or you may have a screen shot of a page. If you can convert the design to a JPEG, GIF, or PNG graphic, you can import that image into Dreamweaver and use it as a guide, or tracing image, to re-create the HTML page.

The tracing image is visible only inside Dreamweaver. It is not embedded in the HTML code and is not displayed in the browser. The tracing image appears behind everything on your page in Dreamweaver. While you’re using a tracing image, the background color or background image of your page is hidden, but that background color or image displays when you look at the ...