Adobe, Inc.

Douglas K Olson

Jeffrey H Michaud

Douglas Charles Shimonek

Douglas E Meisner

Apparatus and methods implementing a technique for creating an electronic artwork with a hot area. For a selected layer of the artwork, a non-transparent region is identified and an action is assigned to an area corresponding to the non-transparent region, the action defining a function that will be activated when the area is selected. The technique is advantageous in computer application programs that composite images from layers and for producing HTML (HyperText Markup Language) output that refers to a corresponding composited image, where the action is a URL and the area is defined by an image map.

Assigning a hot spot in an electronic artwork

A method of previewing an image displayed in a first video graphics environment as it will appear in a second differently palettized video graphics environment. The method includes determining the appearance of the image as it will appear in the second video graphics environment, and concurrent with displaying the image in the first video graphics environment, displaying the appearance of the image as it will appear in the second video graphics environment. The invention also features a method of tailoring how an image displayed in a first video graphics environment appears in a second video graphics environment. Tailoring can include providing a preview of an image as it will appear in the second video graphics environment, receiving user selection input that selects a video display characteristic of the preview image, determining a replacement video display characteristic provided by the second video graphics environment, and replacing the selected video display characteristic of the preview image with the determined replacement display characteristic.

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Shoreview, MN, United States of America

Douglas K Olson