[tpicco]

I was looking through want ads... found this list of required skills:

• Photoshop
• ImageReady
• Illustrator
• QuarkXpress
• CS3

What is ImageReady? I know it's Adobe... but even Adobe doesn't list is as a separate product...

[mduell]

An app they discontinued.

[red rocket]

I just remember it as the unused ‘Edit in ImageReady’ option in Photoshop save dialogues, never considered it a separate product myself. Maybe that’s why they discontinued it.

From mduell’s linked description, it sounds a bit like ‘Slice and Dice’ by Stone software.

[andi*pandi]

they tried to make it a separate product to compete with fireworks, but just ended up buying macromedia anyhow.

If you know photoshop you should be able to figure it out.

although from that app list, they don't seem to know what CS3 is exactly...

[olePigeon]

If you're in printing, it was handy. You could put up different virtual proofs on your screen using different light temperature, color profiles, and color depth. You could also slice & crop, export a sliced image as separate GIFs or PNGs (handy for web pages), and other things.

I don't think I ever used it more than three times, though. Most of the time I just stayed in Photoshop because I didn't want to learn another program when Photoshop worked.

Also, now that Macromedia is apart of Adobe, it's redundant.

[Veltliner]

Most of the features are still in CS3, buried. And you can't get a manual.

There are some tutorials one the web on how to create web pages with CS3, but don't count on much.

[Andy8]

Fireworks does most of the tasks (and more) that ImageReady did.

Adobe Creative Suite 3 (CS3) comes in many flavors, depending on what your focus is design or web.

[CrimsonRequiem]

Originally Posted by tpicco 

I was looking through want ads... found this list of required skills:

• Photoshop
• ImageReady
• Illustrator
• QuarkXpress
• CS3

What is ImageReady? I know it's Adobe... but even Adobe doesn't list is as a separate product...

Well I used it mostly for making GIF animations. It's not really discontinued it's just integrated in Photoshop.

[Maflynn]

Originally Posted by CrimsonRequiem 

Well I used it mostly for making GIF animations. It's not really discontinued it's just integrated in Photoshop.

AFAIK,a lot of functionality of ImageReady was found in PS, and the stuff that was unique to ImageReady is also in Fireworks.

I've seen people cuss adobe up one side and down the other because they dropped ImageReady and others who saw no need of this on their hard drive. I never really used it, so it matters little to me.

[CrimsonRequiem]

Originally Posted by Maflynn 

AFAIK,a lot of functionality of ImageReady was found in PS, and the stuff that was unique to ImageReady is also in Fireworks.

I've seen people cuss adobe up one side and down the other because they dropped ImageReady and others who saw no need of this on their hard drive. I never really used it, so it matters little to me.

Yeah but the only thing about Fireworks was that it didn't come free with Photoshop, seeing as it is apart of the web design collection. Usually when you just buy photoshop you also get image ready and you could use it for print and web design applications.

Plus Image ready is not really gone it's in photoshop now, so I don't see why anyone would complain.

On a side note I didn't start using Fireworks until I was more serious about Web design and bought the Web Design package which has Flash, Dreamweaver and Fireworks.

[forumhound]

nothing much to add, but i discovered today that the photoshop CS3 extended version came in handy when making animated gifs where the frame source is video. the function of ImageReady was greatly improved in that version of Photoshop. I'll post a tutorial in a moment. Cheers,
coocoo