PHOTOSHOP CS3
User Guide
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<TITLE>%TITLE%</TITLE>
When Photoshop generates the gallery using this template file, it replaces the token %TITLE% with the text that you
entered for Site Name in the Web Photo Gallery dialog box.
To better understand an existing style, you can open and study its HTML template files using an HTML editor.
Because only standard ASCII characters are required to create HTML documents, you can open, edit, and create
these documents using a plain-text editor such as Notepad (Windows) or TextEdit (Mac OS).
About customizing web photo gallery styles
You can customize an existing web photo gallery style by editing one or more of its HTML template files. When
customizing a style, you need to follow these guidelines so that Photoshop can generate the gallery correctly:
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The style folder must contain these files: Caption.htm, IndexPage.htm, SubPage.htm, Thumbnail.htm, and
FrameSet.htm.
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You can rename the style folder but not the HTML template files in the folder.
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You can have an empty Caption.htm file, and place the HTML code and tokens determining the layout of the
caption in the Thumbnail.htm file.
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You can replace a token in a template file with the appropriate text or HTML code, so that an option is set through
the template file rather than through the Web Photo Gallery dialog box. For example, a template file may contain
a BODY element with the following background color attribute that uses a token as its value:
bgcolor=%BGCOLOR%
To set the background color of the page to red, you can replace the token %BGCOLOR% with “FF0000.”
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You can add HTML code and tokens to the template files. All tokens must be in uppercase characters, and begin
and end with the percent (%) symbol.
Customize or create a web photo gallery style
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Locate the folder that stores the existing web photo gallery styles.
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Do one of the following:
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To customize a style, create a copy of the style folder, and store it in the same location as the existing style folders.
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To create a new style, create a new folder for the new style, and store it in the same location as the existing style
folders.
The new or customized style (named for its folder) appears in the Styles menu in the Web Photo Gallery dialog box.
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Using an HTML editor, do one of the following:
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Customize the HTML template file.
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Create the necessary HTML template files and store them inside the style folder.
When creating the template files, make sure that you follow the guidelines for customization outlined in “About
customizing web photo gallery styles” on page 520.
