Images which 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 websites image ready let's you create links, rollovers and it optimzes your graphics for the web the software actually create HTML pages for you and includes all of the necessary code such as table definitions image.
Image ready has fewer features then Photoshop Being designed for quick editing of web graphics rather than affects incentive graphics editing to that and image ready has specialized features such as animated GIF creation , image, compression ,optimization, image slicing and rollover effects, and HTML generation.
The photoshop toolbox and a quick link to image ready the jump to image ready button enabled editing of the current image directly in image ready the image ready toolbox is similar to Photoshop toolbox one set of tools that looks different however is the image map set of tools indicated by a shape or arrow with a hand the toolbox includes several features not found in Photoshop, including :
- Toggle image map visibility and toggle slice visibility tools - these tools toggle between showing and heading image makes and slices, respectively.
- Export animation frames as files option - all or specified friends will be saved you can e.g email slides for review.
- Preview document tool - this tool provides a preview of role over effects in image Reddy rather than doing them in browser.
- Tribune default browser tool - disputed reviews the image in our browser, including any rollover or animation effects.
- Jump to Photoshop - this button opens the current image in Photoshop.
Photoshop VS. image ready -
Photoshop is an advanced tour for creating and editing graphics it was originally intended for designing print based graphic photoshop heads oriented features but for the most part they are more limited than image redies images created with the web in mind it has more and better designed web features then Photoshop with image radio can add links rollovers and animations to your graphics but image ready lecks some of the advanced image editing capabilities of Photoshop.
Jumping in both applications the bottom button on the toolbox is the jump to button in Photoshop the button launches image ready in image ready the button launches Photoshop c the pictures at left for a closed up of each.
What are the file formats for the web graphics ?
GIF :
GIF stands for graphics interchange format GIF is an 8- bitcolor format which means that it can save up to 256 different colours GIF supports animated images background transparency and background mating ( blending edges with a web page background) the GIF format is supported by all graphical web browser .
JPEG :
JPEG ( or JPG ) stands for joint photographic experts group its pronounced "jay - peg" the file extension is JPG the JPEG format supports 24 bit colour so JPEG graphics can have up to 16 millions colours JPEG is a "lossy" compression technique which means that it compresses buy selectively discording data it can reduce files sizes to about 5° - o hope they are normal size but some detail is lost in the compression when saving a file as a JPEG you can choose how much compression you want to use.
PNG :
PNG stands for portable network graphics pronounced "ping" the file extension is png.
Image Ready Vs Flash
Image Ready :
Image ready comes bundled with the latest versions of Photoshop and is the Adobe solution for preparing all kinds of images for the bag it is a pixel based animation tool this means that it stores and animations as frames where is varies from the next based on differences in the small square dots of colour that are used to display things on the screen the only animated output type image ready offers in the animated gif.
