Color Change Objects.

[Richard Berkley]

I have not yet purchased photoshop, so my question is to find out if Photoshop is the right product for my project.
I want to create a ecommerce site. The site has products that are offered in 60 different colors or prints. I would like users of my site to be able to see the product then by use of a dropdown menu select a color, click it on, then see the product in that color or image.
I will use an example to illustrate what I want to do. Take a picture of a car - white body white top. Click on the body and a dropdown menu appears with colors. Click a color and the image changes to show the body in that selected color leaving the top white. Click on the top, then another dropdown menu appears with colors, click it, and the top color changes. What was a white on white car is now a tan on yellow car.
Is Photoshop the right software? If so, where can I get directions on how to do this? If it is not the right software, what do I use?
Please respond by email. Thanks

[larry brubeck]

All this guy ask is for a simple answer to this question.

[dave milbut]

OW:

Come here often, Sport?




RB:

I have not yet purchased photoshop, so my question is to find out if Photoshop
is the right product for my project.




So i doubt he's been here much.

OW you REALLY need to chill out. Every thread you post in degenerates into a discussion of what an a-hole you are to people. Talk about a waste of bandwidth! You'd gotten much better there for a while, but now you're back. You gotta stop jumping on people like that. Do you think this guy deserved it? For asking a freaking question?!! All he wanted was some help. Now, maybe you just cost Adobe a sale. Give it a rest! Jeez! Step back from the keyboard and stick to your images.

RB, Photoshop can be one piece of the puzzle you need, but you're going to need some web design sw too. Something like flash or some serious web coding to do what you want. You can create the images in PS, but you'll need another app to handle the kind of navigation you're talking about.

dave

[YrbkMgr]

To further Dave's thought RB, yes, photoshop can create images like those, but it's not magic. It will take some experience to master.

Let's put it this way, with my application suite, Photoshop is the one I would choose to create those images, but it wouldn't be easy, and I don't know if there are other apps that make it easier.

Peace,
Tony

[r_harvey]

You might be able to save some money and get Photoshop Elements. It won't have as fine of control over image size--which is critical for Web use. Later, if you decide that you need more, Adobe offers a discount on trading-up to the regular Photoshop--which could be called "Photoshop Professional," since it offers so many extra tools for full-time designers. Why not visit the home pages for the two products at Adobe <http://www.adobe.com/products/>, and decide which fits your needs.

Thanks Dave.

[LenHewitt]

Richard,

Yes, Photoshop can create 60 different coloured variations of the same
image....BUT that means you have to have 60 images on the server for each
product, and the user has to wait whilst each image downloads when selected.
It cannot create different colours "on-the-fly" for a single image.

So if you have 100 products, that's 6000 separate images.....

[Carl B. Johnson]

Richard

That is quite a complex project that you are considering. First, I hope
you have talented designers, because it will not be easy for a novice.
thatsaid, I would probably lean towards using Macromedia Flash (sorry
Adobe) for something as interactive as you are contemplating. Other
than that, you are going to have dozens of images and rollovers or
what-have-you if you attempt this with standard JPGs.

If you are planning on using JPGs and not Flash, then Photoshop is
definately the way to go, and ImageReady which comes with PShop would
give you the tools to do some creative rollovers. No matter which
course you take, this is not a job for the unitiated, and the fact that
you have to ask implies that you probably do not have the skills
yourself to do this project. No offense, I am not being a smart-@ss,
just making an observation. I have been desiging web pages for 8 years
now and the concept you describe would be a challenge to me.

If you have designers in mind, maybe you should ask them how they would
go about desiging this page, and what tools they prefer.