Introduction
If you need to manipulate a photographic image, there's not a better program on the market than Adobe Photoshop that will do the job for you. But Adobe didn't stop with Photoshop; they realized that there are many users wanting to design images for the Internet, so they came up with ImageReady. ImageReady is Adobe's answer to creating great images for the Internet. And not just images, with ImageReady you can create animated GIF's, JavaScript rollovers, and much more. ImageReady is truly a program for anyone interested in creating Web friendly documents.Photoshop uses various document formats such as JPEG, GIF, PNG, and WBMP, to save images for the Web. For example, the JPEG format is used primarily for compressing photographic images, while the GIF format is used for compressing clipart and text. Each format is designed to serve a purpose, and knowing when to use a specific format will help you design fast-loading, dynamic Web documents.However, saving files in a specific file format is not the only way Photoshop helps you create Web-friendly images, you can also slice images. When you slice an image, you're cutting the image into several pieces. Since the Internet handles smaller packets of information more efficiently than one large piece, slicing an image makes the whole graphic load faster, and ImageReady helps you slice images with ease.