ImageReady CS for Web professionals

Prepare Web graphics quickly and efficiently with the improved ImageReady CS features and interface for Web design and production.

Enjoy a Web-focused interface

Easily select, group, and manipulate multiple objects using automatic Smart Guides, and organize nested object groups up to five levels deep. (See About designing Web pages with Photoshop and ImageReady.)

Export to Macromedia® Flash™ (SWF)

Export directly to Flash (SWF), with preserved vectors and dynamic text including embedded fonts. Export each layer to its own SWF file, allowing each file to be opened in Flash as its own symbol on its own layer. (See Saving files in SWF format (ImageReady).)

Output enhanced HTML

Create leaner, more easily edited HTML, with new controls for nested tables, XHTML, and more. (See About designing Web pages with Photoshop and ImageReady.)

Create and edit interactive elements easily with the new Web Content palette.

Fine-tune your control over remote rollover slices with the new point-and-shoot targeting system. Create multiple slice sets in a single document, and combine slice sets and layer comps to quickly switch among and export different document configurations. (See Using the Web Content palette.)

Create dynamic content fast with variables and data sets

Directly define and edit variables and data sets, and easily import database and spreadsheet content for automated graphics production. (See Creating templates for data-driven graphics (ImageReady).)

Enjoy enhanced automation with conditional actions

Using the Insert a Step button in the Actions palette, conditional logic can now be inserted in ImageReady CS actions. With conditional logic, ImageReady CS will scan for certain image characteristics (aspect ratio, dimensions, filename, etc.) and perform a step only if the characteristics match the setting in the step. (See Inserting Conditionals (ImageReady).)

Easily export multiple files from selected states

Instantly create separate HTML pages for each selected state, by outputting multiple files for slices containing selected states. This new capability of ImageReady CS makes quick work of designing Web pages where different images are displayed in the same area by the state of different rollovers. (See Saving selected rollover states to Web pages.)