Adobe 23101335 User Guide - Page 58

48 What's New in Adobe Photoshop 6.0 Weighted optimization Photoshop 6.0 incorporates new weighted optimization controls that let you use 8-bit alpha channels to smoothly vary compression settings across an image. This technique produces higher-quality results in critical image areas without sacrificing file size. In the past, you would have made harder trade-offs, either favoring image quality in a complex image over smaller files sizes, or vice versa. Using channels, you can produce gradual variations in GIF dithering, lossy GIF settings, and JPEG compression. Weighted optimization controls also let you favor colors in selected image areas as you generate custom color palettes. Improved Web workflow Photoshop 6.0 and the built-in Web-production tool, ImageReady 3.0, are now more tightly integrated than ever, resulting in a powerful new tool combination for creating your Web graphics from start to finish. Adobe Photoshop 6.0 also offers improved integration with Adobe GoLive™ 5.0. Integrated optimization with Adobe GoLive 5.0 Adobe Photoshop 6.0 and Adobe GoLive 5.0 integrate tightly to support your Web production process. Now you can add native Photoshop (PSD) files directly to the Adobe GoLive application without having to optimize them first. Instead, you can use the built-in image optimization tools in the Adobe GoLive application to perform those steps. Automated updates with Adobe GoLive 5.0 Any URLs written by Photoshop or ImageReady are accessible in Adobe GoLive for management and editing. You can even update edited URLs in the original Photoshop (PSD) file. You can also set up a sliced file, complete with rollovers and image maps, in ImageReady or Photoshop and then add the single PSD file to Adobe GoLive. Adobe GoLive automatically calls ImageReady or Photoshop to compile the sliced pieces and update edits you make to the image. Adobe GoLive also goes back to the original PSD file to generate the final GIF or JPEG file for the Web page. HTML integration with Adobe GoLive 5.0 When exporting sliced images, Photoshop and ImageReady both generate a set of named image files and an HTML file with the table code necessary to reassemble the image. Alternatively, you can save sliced image files as CSS-based (cascading style sheet) objects. The highquality HTML code produced is ready to be copied into Adobe GoLive or another HTML editor. When exporting rollovers from ImageReady, select the Include GoLive Code option in the Save Optimized As dialog box for optimal results.