Megan — Wed, 12 Mar 2003 15:13:10 +0000

shootingstar67 (and others),

I'm sorry that I have been attend to this thread for the past several days as I was out of town. I am also sorry that the members here were unable to answer your question to your satisfaction. I would agree that search results aren't the best way to answer a question but people really are just trying to be helpful.

Unfortunately, I don't know of any specific Image Ready tutorials available online (I'm another person who was able to figure it out). The major difference between Photoshop and Image REady is, (as the name suggests) the tools IR provides for "readying" an image for the web. This includes the optimize palette, the slicing tools, rollover palette, animation palette etc.

The optimize palette is very similar to the "save for web" option in Photoshop. You shouldn't have a problem with that.

The slice tool appears right below the magic wand in the tools palette. It includes the slice select tool and the slice drawing tool. You'll use the latter to draw slices onto your page, which IR will automatically make into separate images when you "Save Optimized"

That's another difference - in IR, if you use the regular "save" option, you're just saving your PSD file. "Save Optimized" will output your image into .gif or .jpeg or whatever. Sliced images will be outputted into separate graphics for each slice. It will also save an HTML page with all the code you need to put your page together. The images will be placed into a table, and any javascript for rollovers and such will be included (more on this below).

Back to slicing - when you slice your image, make sure to keep in mind that this will have to be placed into a table at some point. You'll want to keep things as simple as possible. Let me know if you have any more questions about this - I'm not sure what your existing knowledge is here.

Another important aspect of slicing is the "slices" palette. Use the slice select tool to select slices and modify their settings in the palette. You can change the name your slices, decide if there should be an image there or not, provide a link URL etc. You can also use the optimize palette to provide a different compression setting for different slices.

You can also use the rollover palette to create rollover states for different slices. What you'll do is use the "new" icon in that palette to create a new state. This is a key aspect of IR - using different "states" to provide interactivity. Normally here you'll just be using an "over" state. What you'll do once you create the "over" state is just turn some layers on and off to provide the rollover animation.

The animation palette works similar to rollovers. You'll use the "new" icon to add more states and turn layers on and off to provide the animation. YOu can also move things around in layers and things like that. Each "state" is almost treated like a separate file here. You can make all sorts of changes that will only apply to the state you're on. You can also use the animation palette to change the frame rate and such.

Theoretically you can create a fully functioning website just through IR, but it really isn't reccomended. The code it outputs isn't very good, and obviously your download speeds suffer when everything is made with an image. I'll have to warn you that IR can be rather annoying to work with - even experienced users run into difficulties once in awhile (see threads in this forum by Jack Michaelson and myself). IR is handy for complicated menus with sliced images and rollovers, but if I have something simpler to do I'll tend to cut things up through Photoshop and avoid IR altogether.

Anyway, I hope this has been helpful for you - let me know if you have any more specific questions.

disaster-master — Tue, 11 Mar 2003 16:16:56 +0000

Quote: awww bless *hug*

:blush: Thank you Davey. I feel better all ready.

DaveyBoy — Tue, 11 Mar 2003 13:03:21 +0000

haha, awww bless *hug*

I thought it was really nice of ya to help him anyway and i used the links last night for a couple of things so nice one!

You efforts haven't gone unnoticed

Maybe one day you'll make Mod status

disaster-master — Tue, 11 Mar 2003 08:04:31 +0000

I am sorry that you took offense to the google link.

I have never used the program so I was unable to point you to anything specific or offer any advise. I thought I would help by positng a quick link to tons of tutorials.

*lowers head, walks away and boo hoos like a baby*

Sonia

DaveyBoy — Mon, 10 Mar 2003 21:38:23 +0000

haha, yeah...

ImageReady is SOOOOOOOOO demanding on a PC man, thats why i tend to not use it.

Jimmy Changa — Mon, 10 Mar 2003 19:07:55 +0000

infamous? I thought she was good. *shrugs*

hehe

Suzanne — Mon, 10 Mar 2003 17:43:21 +0000

ShootingStar67, did you look at Sonia's link? There is a whole page of links to ImageReady tutorials. Sonia is an expert searcher, and her ability to use the best keywords to find results is infamous.

From her link, there is this, for instance:

http://www.tutorialfind.com/tutorials/adobe/imageready/

Which is two pages of ImageReady tutorials.

If you provide more information on what you're trying to accomplish, I'm sure you can find something more specific as well.

shootingstar67 — Mon, 10 Mar 2003 17:37:37 +0000

ok, maybe nobody was being rude. I was being defencive. sorry.

I have been reading in this fourm for a long time and finally joined cause I really could not find anything on google except a random article on how to make a mouseover button.

anyone read any good books on the subject?

DaveyBoy — Mon, 10 Mar 2003 17:33:19 +0000

i would love to help but i can't help thinking you'd be a little ungrateful as you already have been to the mods.

anonymous1 — Mon, 10 Mar 2003 17:27:53 +0000

What are you trying to do?????