Comments on: PhotoSpin.com Offers Tutorial on Smart Objects

By: Samuel John Klein

Samuel John Klein — Mon, 03 Oct 2005 19:53:40 +0000

I do recall my instructor in beginning Photoshop animating a wood manikin swimming in an ocean whilst the class was working on a test.

Made it hard to complete the test…but then she is a genius.

By: Jeremy Schultz

Jeremy Schultz — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 03:16:57 +0000

You can also use Photoshop’s and Illustrator’s “Save For Web” to do the same thing, so it’s not necessarily limited. ImageReady’s reason for being is to create animations, specifically animated GIFs.

By: Samuel John Klein

Samuel John Klein — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 01:14:23 +0000

I certainly look forward to any series you can do on Image Ready. About all I ever use it for is Save For Web, but I can see that it does a great many things, you can even create animation with it.

It would be nice to see someone explore it the way it ought to be explored.

By: Jeremy Schultz

Jeremy Schultz — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 21:11:29 +0000

I don’t know, sometimes it seems the Photoshop development team doesn’t know what the ImageReady team is doing, and vice versa. My money is on ImageReady being relatively ignored for quite a while longer. I personally think ImageReady should be rolled into Photoshop, or with Macromedia’s impending buyout they could roll ImageReady’s tools into Fireworks and create a stronger application focused on web graphics and as visible as Photoshop or any other CS application. ImageReady has always been buried in the Photoshop folder, and not everyone knows it’s even there.

I hope to do some stories on ImageReady in the future, and perhaps we can check in with Adobe and learn their plans for ImageReady, Fireworks and other web graphics applications.

By: Subliminal Fusion

Subliminal Fusion — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 16:12:18 +0000

My biggest problem with Smart Objects is that Image Ready doesn’t support them. This causes real problems for working with them for anything remotely complicated for the web. I’m hoping this is a temporary bug and it will be fixed with a service patch sometime soon.