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name = Adobe ImageReady
  Caption Adobe ImageReady CS2 running on XP
  Developer Adobe Systems
  Latest Release Version CS2 (90)
  Latest Release Date April 2005
  Operating System Mac OS X , Windows
  Status Discontinued
  Genre Bitmap Graphics Editor
  License Commercial
  Website None


Adobe ImageReady is a Bitmap Graphics Editor that was shipped with Adobe Photoshop by Adobe Systems . It was available on both Windows and Mac OS X platforms.

ImageReady has fewer features than Photoshop and was 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.


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RELEASE HISTORY

Adobe ImageReady 1.0 was released as a standalone application. ImageReady was packaged with Photoshop between version 2.0 and CS2. Adobe synchronized the version numbers of ImageReady and Photoshop beginning with version 7.0.

  • ''current release''


With the release of the Creative Suite 3, ImageReady has officially been discontinued, and the expected reason is that since Adobe now owns Fireworks (the ex- Macromedia equivalent of ImageReady, and a more mature and arguably superior product), they don't need ImageReady, and will continue to develop Fireworks instead.


CRITICISM

Adobe ImageReady could only generate table based code without providing the option of generating table-less code using CSS for positioning.
However, beginning with Adobe ImageReady CS2, Adobe provided the option to generate CSS from sliced designs.


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