Editing Adobe ImageReady

{{Short description|Bitmap graphics editor}}
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{{Infobox software
| name = Adobe ImageReady
| logo = Adobe ImageReady CS2.png
| screenshot = ImageReady CS2 screenshot.png
| caption = Adobe ImageReady CS2 running on Windows XP. The "Edit in Photoshop" button discussed in the article is visible at the very bottom of the toolbox.
| developer = [[Adobe Systems]]
| released = {{Start date and age|1998|07}}
| latest release version = CS2 (9.0)
| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2005}}
| operating system = [[Windows]], [[Classic Mac OS]] and [[Mac OS X]]
| genre = [[Bitmap graphics editor]]
| license = [[Trialware]]
| website = Adobe.com
| discontinued = yes
}}
'''Adobe ImageReady''' was a [[bitmap graphics editor]] that was shipped with [[Adobe Photoshop]] for six years. It was available for [[Windows]], [[Classic Mac OS]] and [[Mac OS X]] from 1998 to 2007. ImageReady was designed for web development and closely interacted with Photoshop.

== Function ==
ImageReady was designed for [[web development]] rather than effects-intensive [[photo manipulation]]. To that end, ImageReady has specialized features such as [[animated GIF]] creation, [[image compression]] optimization, image slicing, adding rollover effects, and [[HTML]] generation.

Photoshop versions with which ImageReady was released have an "Edit in ImageReady" button that enables editing of image directly in ImageReady. ImageReady, in turn, has an "Edit in Photoshop" button.

ImageReady has strong resemblances to Photoshop; it can even use the same set of [[Photoshop plugin|Photoshop filters]]. 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 version.  This toolbox has several features not found in Photoshop, including:
* ''Toggle Image Map Visibility'' and ''Toggle Slice Visibility'' tools: toggle between showing and hiding image maps and slices, respectively
* ''Export Animation Frames as Files'' option: saves all or specified frames for an alternate use, e.g., to e-mail slides for review
* ''Preview Document'' tool: provides a preview of rollover effects in ImageReady rather than previewing them in a browser
* ''Preview in Default Browser'' tool: previews the image in a browser, including any rollover or animation effects
* ''Edit in Photoshop'' button: opens the current image in Photoshop

==History==
Adobe ImageReady 1.0 was released in July 1998 as a standalone application.<ref>'Adobe ships ImageReady 1.0 (Product Announcement)' – MacWeek, July 13, 1998</ref> Version 2.0 was packaged with Photoshop 5.5, and the program was included with Photoshop through version 9.0 (CS2). Starting with Photoshop 7.0, Adobe changed the version numbers of ImageReady to match.

{| class="wikitable"
|+ImageReady release summary
|-
! Version
! Release date
! Bundled with
|-
| v1
| July 1998 
| {{N/A}}
|-
| v2 
| July 1999 
| Photoshop 5.5
|-
| v3 
| October 2000
| Photoshop 6.0
|-
| v7 
| February 2002 
| Photoshop 7.0
|-
| v8 ("CS")
| October 2003
| Photoshop CS 
|-
| v9 ("CS2")
| May 2005 
| Photoshop CS2
|}

With the release of the [[Creative Suite 3]], ImageReady was discontinued. According to Adobe, ImageReady's most popular features were merged into Photoshop.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2007/05/guidance_on_migrating_from_imageready.html|title = Guidance on migrating from ImageReady|date = 6 May 2007|website = John Nack on Adobe|publisher = [[Adobe Systems]]|last = Nack|first = John|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210105071251/https://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2007/05/guidance_on_migrating_from_imageready.html|archive-date=2021-01-05|url-status=dead}}</ref> (Even before discontinuation, some of ImageReady's web optimization functionality could be found in Photoshop's ''Save For Web & Devices'' tool.) Around the same time, Adobe purchased rival software developer [[Macromedia]], whose application [[Adobe Fireworks|Fireworks]] had been a competitor to ImageReady.

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