Navigation Bar Tutorial #4, Page 5:
After inserting my other two photos, then resizing and softening the edges on all three, I had something that looked like this:
The photo on the right, however, was a little wider than I needed it to be, and it contained a lot of background stuff that wasn't part of the image that I really wanted. I wanted to focus on the two men in the photo and crop out some of the building behind them. NetStudio has a TRIM feature, which is also known as cropping in most graphics programs.
The TRIM 
icon, just to the right of the INSERT PICTURE icon, allows you to trim the top,
bottom, or sides of a photo in order to cut out what you don't want. When you
have your photo selected, click on the icon. Your cursor then turns into what
looks like a small pair of scissors. When you have the cursor on the edge of the
image, the scissors open, letting you know you can trim the photo at that point.
To trim it, click and drag the image to the point where you want it. Click on
the icon again to turn off the TRIM mode. This is different from resizing an
image. While you can trim or resize an image to make it smaller, trimming it
cuts out a portion of the image. Compare the two photos below. The one on the
right has the sides cropped (or trimmed) away.
One last thing I want do to the three photos is to apply the FADE TO TRANSPARENT effect to help blend them together. The left photo gets the transparency applied to the right portion of the picture. The center photo gets the transparency applied to the top portion. Finally, the right photo gets the transparency applied to the left portion. So now I have something like this:
Put this together with the frame we had from the previous page and you have the final image. Play around with the WASHOUT and CHANGE COLOR features on the photos and see what else you come up with.
Hopefully this tutorial has given you some ideas for inventing something similar for your own web pages. You can even scan in your own photos for something similar to this project. Scanners are so cheap now, you can't afford not to own one.
That concludes all the Navigation Bar tutorials, folks. Thanks for playing along.
