One of the best reasons is the ability to jump back and forth between ImageReady and Photoshop. I think Photoshop beats any Macromedia graphics program. I’ve used Freehand, but prefer Illustrator. I’ve used Fireworks, but prefer ImageReady. However, I haven’t used ImageReady for anything other than animation. I use Photoshop to create rollover buttons which I then take to Dreamweaver to build websites. I’ve used Flash, which can do many things ImageReady can’t. But when working with bitmap images in any program, I would likely tweak or manipulate them in Photoshop anyway. With ImageReady, Photoshop is just a click on the tool bar away (or CTRL+SHFT+M on my keyboard.)
Below are some links from an animation tutorial site I haven’t finished yet. The tutorial shows how to animate a single photograph using Photoshop and ImageReady:
http://home.comcast.net/~oneravenlunatic/wens_class/html/oth er_animations/buchanan.htm http://home.comcast.net/~oneravenlunatic/wens_class/html/oth er_animations/thompson.htm http://home.comcast.net/~oneravenlunatic/wens_class/html/oth er_animations/shark_fart_repellant_lb.htm The site works best in Internet Explorer since it uses a bunch of Dynamic HTML (layers that move about in predefined ways). Netscape has a hard time placing layers in the correct place. I’m sorry that none of the ImageReady pages are built yet…only the prepping in Photoshop is nearly done. Don’t even try the Questions & Comments form. This site used to be on a different server and doesn’t work anymore. I just uploaded it from my computer to show a client the possibilities layers offer.
Tutorial entrance:
http://home.comcast.net/~oneravenlunatic/wens_class/html/ie_ index.htm Photoshop lesson four is fun! You get to play with the Liquefy Command. However, When I’ve viewed it on Macs (at school), the animations didn’t play properly. Only the last two frames of the mouseover animations showed. PCs render them OK. All Macs may not do this.
Corey 🙂
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This question is only for those who have used both Fireworks and Image Ready. I have both programs, but have never taken the time to delve into the Image Ready. Really, I’m looking for some reasons why it might be
wise
for me to take the precious time to learn another Fireworks type program. Immediately, I see that Image Ready has a much greater choice of Filters, but are there other reasons why Image Ready beats Fireworks? Thanks for
any
input you might be willing to give.
Bob Green