Exploring the power of Photoshop CS2
A new version of Photoshop and ImageReady means another upgrade and a decision of when to purchase or if you should even bother. Depending on your needs, you may find just a few gems in the new Photoshop CS2 or you may consider the dozens of enhancements life savers. I’ve found myself somewhere in the middle, amazed at how many truly useful innovations Adobe has crammed into this version while still maintaining the familiar interface we’ve all come to know.
Because this is a site for web professionals, I will be concentrating on tools that will be useful to the average web designer. First, some interesting decisions on the part of Adobe. While Photoshop and ImageReady continue on as separate entities, their capabilities now overlap more than ever. For instance, Photoshop has had the ability to slice and optimize images for the web using Save for Web, but now they even include the GIF animation palette right in Photoshop. What’s left in ImageReady? You can still slice, optimize and animate in ImageReady and it is the only place to create Image Maps and Rollovers. It also provides some features Photoshop doesn’t match for optimizing, slicing and tweaking the HTML and Javascript that is generated.
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