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Reviewer's Guide Files
Remember that you can locate files
for this reviewer's guide in Adobe
ImageReady 1.0\Images\Images on
the reviewer's CD. Or use files of
your own to try out the features in
this exciting new product.
We believe that ImageReady will appeal to two types of users:
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Graphics Creators—This group encompasses illustrators, photographers, graphic designers, and Web
developers who create original artwork or repurpose printed artwork for the Web. Many of these cus-
tomers work with Photoshop and Illustrator for a significant portion of their day, so the strong integra-
tion between ImageReady and these creative tools will be a boon.
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Graphics Refiners—This group includes a growing number of people who's job it is to crank out final
graphics files for posting on Web sites. The members of this group may or may not have a graphic arts
background. Often, they are HTML experts who end up owning the whole final production process.
These users will welcome tools that streamline that process.
With the efficient tools that ImageReady provides, these graphics professionals can better meet the increas-
ing content demands of their Web sites.
Familiar Adobe Interface
Now that you've seen where Adobe ImageReady software fits in the Web production process, let's take a look
at how the program operates. After you start the program, the first thing you'll notice is that it looks like
Photoshop and our other professional graphics programs. The ImageReady menu structure matches that in
Photoshop wherever appropriate.
In addition, ImageReady features our popular tabbed palettes, which place key functionality right at your
fingertips. You can drag a palette tab to pull that palette out of a group, or drag it into a different group. You
can also attach—or dock—palettes together, so that they act as a single unit. And, of course, you can move,
minimize, and maximise palettes as necessary.
The toolbox in ImageReady closely resembles the toolbox in Photoshop, presenting a subset of the same
image-editing tools. You can identify these tools easily by pointing at each of them and pausing to see
the Adobe standard tool tips appear. For more details on these tools, see "Superior Image Editing" later in
this document
Work with a core set of
familiar image-editing
tools from Photoshop.
Drag one tabbed palette on another palette's
container to combine them, or drag a palette
away to display it on its own.
Dock palettes together, so they behave as a
unit—you can minimise, maximise, or move
them to suit your task or to reduce on-
screen clutter.
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