The Book of GIMP

8.3 Web Design Tools

Although GIMP wasn’t designed for web development or design, it does include some useful tools for preparing images for the Web, including two found in the Image: Filter > Web menu, which let you delimit areas in an image so you can make something happen when a visitor clicks or hovers over those areas. This menu also contains a tool for handling GIF images.

Image Map

Image: Filters > Web > Image Map uses an image to build a clickable map that you can integrate into a web page. The map is divided into non-overlapping regions, and a link is attached to each region. When users click in one of the regions, they are taken to the corresponding link.

Figure 8-15. The Area Settings dialog, Link tab

The Image Map dialog, shown in Figure 8-14 ...