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dobe has a wide array of market-leading tools under its roof, and
two are of special interest to Web designers: Adobe Photoshop
in graphics and Dreamweaver in Web authoring. Web designers,
especially those new to the field, often pair Photoshop and Dreamweaver
in their workflow. This most recent release of both products, as part of the
Creative Suite 4 bundle, further tightens their integration. Now, you can
modify a source file in Photoshop for an image placed into a Dreamweaver
page—and then update it in Dreamweaver with a single click. In this chap-
ter, you learn the various ways that you can effortlessly tie Photoshop and
Dreamweaver together.
In the real world, Web sites—particularly the images—are constantly being
tweaked and modified. This fact of Web life explains why Fireworks, Adobe’s
premier Web graphics tool, is so popular. One of Fireworks’ main claims to
fame is that everything is editable all the time. If that were all that Fireworks
did, the program would already have earned a place on every Web designer’s
shelf just for its sheer expediency. Fireworks has many other extraordinary
graphic capabilities, however, and Dreamweaver can tap that power directly.
Adobe’s Dreamweaver and Fireworks products are tightly integrated. You
can optimize your images—reduce the file size, crop the graphic, make
colors transparent—within Dreamweaver using the Fireworks engine ...