Saving Your Graphics
After you optimize your Web graphics, it’s time to save them and publish them to your Web site.Here’s how to save Web graphics in ImageReady:After optimizing your image, choose File>Save Optimized As to save the file.
In the Save Optimized As dialog box, enter a name for the image in the File Name/Save As text box and select a location where you want to store the file.
Click Save.
Tip | When you save images in ImageReady by using the File>Save Optimized As dialog box, ImageReady also generates HTML files associated with the image files. These HTML files are necessary for making Web graphics, such as rollovers and image maps, work. To find out more about these HTML files, take a look at the sidebar “ImageReady and HTML.” |
By default, ImageReady saves HTML files along with graphic files for the Web. These files contain the HTML and JavaScript code necessary to make features, such as rollovers and image maps, work.When you use the File>Save Optimized As command in ImageReady, the program also creates a folder structure where the image files referenced by the HTML are placed. By default, the folder for image files is named images . Take a look at the structure that ImageReady creates when you publish these files to a Web site or when you want to combine the HTML created by ImageReady with your own HTML code. When you publish image maps and rollovers to a Web site, you must also upload the accompanying HTML files. Otherwise, the image maps and rollovers don’t work.In the Save As Type drop-down list in the Save Optimized As dialog box, you can tell ImageReady to save only image files (as opposed to HTML and image files, which is the default).In addition, you can use the various dialog boxes associated with the File>Output Settings command to change the way that HTML files are saved and named. You can also use these same dialog boxes to set the names of the folders where image and HTML files are stored.