Working with Web File Formats
If you design Web documents, you know that the size of your images is very important. ImageReady gives you the option of compressing images in one of four Internet formats: GIF, JPG, PNG, and WBMP. The GIF format compresses images that contain solid colors with sharp, definable edges, such as clipart, and text. The JPG format reduces the size of image files that contain a lot of soft transitional colors, such as photographs. The PNG format is a hybrid format designed to take the place of the GIF and JPG format. Finally, the WBMP format was created to display images on low-resolution devices like cell phones, and PDA's by converting the image into dots of black and white. Whatever format you need to create stunning Web images, ImageReady is the program that will help you get there.

Work with Web File Formats
Open a document in ImageReady by first opening the image in Photoshop and then click the Jump To ImageReady button.
Click the Original, Optimized, 2-Up , or 4-Up palettes to view the document using different layouts.
Select one of the samples.
Select the Optimize palette.
Click the Format list arrow, and then select a format from the available options.
Click the Quality, Transparency , and Options triangles to change the image's compression, and color options.
Click the File menu, and then click Save Optimized As .
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You can use the Window menu to open the Optimize palette.
Click the Window menu, and then click Optimize.Enter a file name in the Save As box.
Click the Format list arrow, and then select to save the image i419 And Images, Images Only, o423 Only.
Click the Where (Mac) or Save In (Win) list arrow, and then select the location to save the file.
Click the Settings and Slices list arrows to further define the output files (if you save a single image without slices, you can leave these settings at their default values).
Click Save .
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For Your InformationCreating a419 File for an Image When you save an optimized file using the Save Optimized As command, you can choose to generate a419 file for the image. This file contains all the necessary information to display your image in a Web browser. |