Adobe ImageReady
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| Adobe ImageReady | |
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| Developer: | Adobe Systems |
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| Latest release: | CS2 (9.0) / April 2005 |
| OS: | Mac OS X, Windows |
| Use: | bitmap graphics editor |
| License: | commercial |
| Website: | http://www.adobe.com |
Adobe ImageReady is a bitmap graphics editor shipped with Adobe Photoshop by Adobe Systems. It is available on both Windows and Mac OS X platforms.
ImageReady has fewer features than Photoshop and is designed for quick editing of web graphics rather than effects-intensive graphics editing. To that end, ImageReady has specialized features such as animated GIF creation, image compression optimization, image slicing and rollover effects, and HTML generation.
The Photoshop Toolbox has a quick link to ImageReady — the Jump to ImageReady button enables editing of the current image directly in ImageReady. The ImageReady toolbox is similar to Photoshop's 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 hiding image maps and slices, respectively.
- Preview Document tool — This tool provides a preview of rollover effects in ImageReady rather than viewing them in a browser.
- Preview in Default Browser tool — This tool previews the image in a browser, including any rollover or animation effects.
- Jump to Photoshop — This button opens the current image in Photoshop.
[edit] Release history
Adobe ImageReady 1.0 was released as a standalone application. ImageReady has been packaged with Photoshop since version 2.0. Adobe synchronized the version numbers of ImageReady and Photoshop beginning with version 7.0.
| Release | Version # | Release Date | Bundled with (version) |
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| 1st | v 1.0 | July 1998 [1] | (n.a.) |
| 2nd | v 2 | July 1999 | Photoshop 5.5 |
| 3rd | v 3 | October 2000 | Photoshop 6.0 |
| 4th | v 7 | February 2002 | Photoshop 7.0 |
| 5th | v 8 ("CS") | October 2003 | Photoshop CS |
| 6th | v 9 ("CS2") | May 2005 | Photoshop CS2* |
* current release
[edit] Criticism
Adobe ImageReady (as of CS2) is known to create deprecated legacy code in its HTML generator instead of current W3C-validated code using CSS for positioning. While this is generally excused in older versions of the software, the fact that the latest edition continues to create deprecated code is a source of contention amongst web developers. An example of this problem is the use of the TABLE tag for arranging image slices when creating rollover effects. Such use of legacy code may prevent HTML pages that use it from passing the W3C validation tests.
[edit] References
- ^ 'Adobe ships ImageReady 1.0 (Product Announcement)' - MacWeek, July 13, 1998
