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Basics
  
Image Maps
  
Slices
  
Rollovers
  
Animation
         
  Introduction   Introduction   Introduction   Introduction   Introduction
  Jumping   Creating   Creating   Creating   Working with Frames
  File Formats   Modifying   Modifying   Previewing   Working with Layers
  Optimization   Image Map Palette   Slice Palette   Matching Layers   Animation Palette
  Saving         Saving Animations
 
 

What is ImageReady?

  

Welcome to the ImageReady tutorial! If you aren't already familiar with Adobe Photoshop, we strongly suggest that you take the Photoshop tutorial before continuing, because this tutorial assumes a general knowledge of Photoshop. (But don't worry—you don't have to be an expert!)

ImageReady, an application that comes with Photoshop, has many of the same image-editing capabilities as Photoshop, but in addition it has advanced features to help you develop graphical web sites. ImageReady lets you create links, rollovers and animations, and it optimizes your graphics for the web. The software actually creates HTML pages for you, and includes all of the necessary code, such as table definitions, image maps, links, and JavaScripts, to implement your site.

Once you have designed your graphical interface in ImageReady, you can then open your HTML pages in a web-editing application such as Dreamweaver or GoLive to add content and fine-tune your pages.

 
 
  Photoshop vs. ImageReady  

When deciding which application to use, Photoshop or ImageReady, remember what each was designed to do:

  • Photoshop is an advanced tool for creating and editing graphics. It was originally intended for designing print-based graphics. Photoshop has some web-oriented features, but for the most part they are more limited than ImageReady's.

  • ImageReady was created with the web in mind. It has more, and better designed, web features than Photoshop. With ImageReady you can add links, rollovers and animations to your graphics. But ImageReady lacks some of the advanced image-editing capabilities of Photoshop. (And it's slower!)

There is a very large overlap between features in the two applications. As a matter of fact, the two have such similar interfaces that it can sometimes be hard to tell which one you're in! Many people speculate that in a future version, Photoshop and ImageReady will be combined into one software package.


 

 

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