Beginning with Adobe ImageReady 7, however, Adobe provided an option to generate CSS from sliced designs.
(August 2008)Įarly versions of Adobe ImageReady could generate only table-based code, without providing an option to generate table-less code using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for positioning. This section does not cite any references or sources. There is some ImageReady-style functionality in CS3 and later versions found via File > Save For Web & Devices. However, Adobe denies this and states that they decided to migrate ImageReady's features into Photoshop only by popular demand. With the release of the Creative Suite 3, ImageReady has officially been discontinued, and many thought that the reason for this was that, since Adobe now owns Fireworks, they don't need ImageReady, and will continue to develop Fireworks instead. (N/A) (Released as a stand alone product.) Adobe synchronized the version numbers of ImageReady and Photoshop beginning with version 7.0.
ImageReady was packaged with Photoshop between version 2.0 and CS2. Jump to Photoshop button - opens the current image in PhotoshopĪdobe ImageReady 1.0 was released as a standalone application.Preview in Default Browser tool - previews the image in a browser, including any rollover or animation effects.Preview Document tool - provides a preview of rollover effects in ImageReady rather than previewing them in a browser.Export Animation Frames as Files option - saves all or specified frames for an alternate use, e.g., to e-mail slides for review.Toggle Image Map Visibility and Toggle Slice Visibility tools - that toggle between showing and hiding image maps and slices, respectively.This toolbox has several features not found in Photoshop, including the following. One set of tools that does not resemble the Photoshop tools, however, is the Image Map set of tools, indicated by a shape or arrow with a hand that varied depending upon the release version. The ImageReady toolbox is similar to that of Photoshop. A Jump to ImageReady button enabled editing of the current image directly in ImageReady and a return button enabled a return to Photoshop.
To that end, ImageReady has specialized features such as animated GIF creation, image compression optimization, image slicing and rollover effects, and HTML generation.ĭuring the time the product was offered, the Photoshop Toolbox had a quick link to ImageReady. ImageReady has fewer features than Photoshop, being designed for quick editing of web graphics rather than effects-intensive graphics editing for other applications.
It was available for both Windows and Mac OS X platforms from 1998 to 2007, after which it was discontinued. ImageReady is written in the C++ programming language. Adobe ImageReady is a bitmap graphics editor that was shipped with Adobe Photoshop by Adobe Systems for almost ten years.