Adobe Imageready Tutorial Trailer - Tour - Tips - Tricks - How-To Relevant despite 1998 date
2Imageready usually was tacked onto Photoshop but I never knew the real point of it. It's nice to see its use laid out like this. Too bad the product is discontinued now,
World Art Day is an international celebration of the fine arts which was declared by the International Association of Art (IAA) in order to promote awareness of creative activity worldwide.
A proposal was put forward at the 17th General Assembly of the International Association of Art in Guadalajara to declare April 15 as World Art Day, with the first celebration held in 2012. This proposal was sponsored by Bedri Baykam of Turkey and co-signed by Rosa Maria Burillo Velasco of Mexico, Anne Pourny of France, Liu Dawei of China, Christos Symeonides of Greek Cyprus, Anders Liden of Sweden, Kan Irie of Japan, Pavel Kral of Slovakia, Dev Chooramun of Mauritius, and Hilde Rognskog of Norway. It was accepted unanimously by the General Assembly.
The date was decided in honor of the birthday of Leonardo da Vinci.(ownpage) Da Vinci was chosen as a symbol world peace, freedom of expression, tolerance, brotherhood and multiculturalism as well as art’s important to other fields.
Adobe ImageReady is a discontinued bitmap graphics editor that was shipped with Adobe Photoshop for almost ten years. It was available for both Windows and OS X platforms from 1998 to 2007, after which it was discontinued.
ImageReady was designed for web development rather than effects-intensive photo manipulation for other applications. To that end, ImageReady has specialized features such as animated GIF creation, image compression optimization, image slicing, adding rollover effects, and HTML generation.
During the time the product was offered, the Photoshop toolbox had a "Jump to ImageReady" button that enabled editing of image directly in ImageReady and a return button enabled a return to Photoshop.
The ImageReady toolbox is similar to that of Photoshop. 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 release version. This toolbox has several features not found in Photoshop, including the following.
Toggle Image Map Visibility and Toggle Slice Visibility tools — that 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
Jump to Photoshop button — opens the current image in Photoshop