Adobe ImageReady
Adobe ImageReady CS2 running on XP
Developer:	Adobe Systems
Latest release:	CS2 (9.0) / April 2005
OS:	Mac OS X, Windows
Status:	Discontinued
Genre:	Bitmap graphics editor
License:	Commercial
Website:	None

Adobe ImageReady was a Bitmap graphics editor shipped with Adobe Photoshop by Adobe Systems. It was available on both Windows and Mac OS X platforms. Image File history File links Adobe_ImageReady_CS2. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 769 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1280 × 998 pixel, file size: 116 KB, MIME type: image/png) This screenshot shows Adobe ImageReady CS2 optimising an animated GIF. Screenshot taken by Mike1024. ... Software development is the translation of a user need or marketing goal into a software product. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... A software release is the distribution, whether public or private, of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product. ... // An operating system (OS) is a set of computer programs that manage the hardware and software resources of a computer. ... Mac OS X (official IPA pronunciation: ) is a line of proprietary, graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. ... Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of proprietary software operating systems by Microsoft. ... Computer software can be organized into categories based on common function, type, or field of use. ... A bitmap graphics editor is a computer program that allows users to paint and edit pictures interactively on the computer screen and save them in one of many popular bitmap or raster formats such as JPEG, PNG, GIF and TIFF. Usually an image viewer is preferred over a bitmap graphics... A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ... A website (alternatively, Web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on a Web server, usually accessible via the Internet or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML, that is almost always accessible via HTTP, a... A bitmap graphics editor is a computer program that allows users to paint and edit pictures interactively on the computer screen and save them in one of many popular bitmap or raster formats such as JPEG, PNG, GIF and TIFF. Usually an image viewer is preferred over a bitmap graphics... “Photoshop” redirects here. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of proprietary software operating systems by Microsoft. ... Mac OS X (official IPA pronunciation: ) is a line of proprietary, graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. ...

ImageReady had fewer features than Photoshop and was designed for quick editing of web graphics rather than effects-intensive graphics editing. To that end, ImageReady had specialized features such as animated GIF creation, image compression optimization, image slicing and rollover effects, and HTML generation. WWWs historical logo designed by Robert Cailliau The World Wide Web (or the Web) is a system of interlinked, hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. ... GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) is a bitmap image format that is widely used on the World Wide Web, both for still images and for animations. ... Image compression is the application of data compression on digital images. ... HTML, short for Hypertext Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for the creation of web pages. ...

The Photoshop Toolbox had a quick link to ImageReady — the Jump to ImageReady button enables editing of the current image directly in ImageReady. The ImageReady toolbox was similar to Photoshop's toolbox. One set of tools that looked different, however, is the Image Map set of tools, indicated by a shape or arrow with a hand. The toolbox included 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.

Release history

Adobe ImageReady 1.0 was released as a standalone application. ImageReady has been 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 Macromedia equivalent of ImageReady, they don't need ImageReady, and will continue to develop Fireworks instead. Macromedia Fireworks, also known as FW for short, is a bitmap and vector graphics editor, developed by Macromedia and aimed at web designers (with features such as: slices, the ability to add hotspots etc. ...

Criticism

Adobe ImageReady could only generate table based code without providing the option of generating tables code using CSS for positioning.

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