Photoshop CS5: The Missing Manual

Building Online Photo Galleries

Once you've massaged and tweaked your images to perfection, why not have Photoshop prepare a Web-ready photo gallery, complete with thumbnails and enlargements, like the one shown in Figure 17-16? Actually, Bridge does all the work using the Adobe Output Module, but that doesn't make it any less cool.

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In previous versions of Photoshop, you could create a gallery by choosing File→Automate→Web Photo Gallery, but in CS4 that feature was moved to Bridge, and in CS5 you get a lot more options than you did before!

Power Users' Clinic: Zoomify Your Enlargements

It can be dangerous to post a full-sized image on the Web—you're practically giving thieves permission to steal it. But if you're a photographer and you want folks to see all the intricate details of your work, you can protect your images by using a Photoshop feature called Zoomify.

Instead of posting your image as one high-quality piece, Zoomify chops it into pieces and displays it in a Flash-based window with controls that visitors can use to zoom in on and move around within your image. (People who view your image need to have Flash installed on their computers, but if they don't, their browser should prompt them to get it.) Instead of seeing the whole thing at the enlarged size, they see only one piece at a time, so they can't grab it by taking a screen shot or downloading the whole image. To use Zoomify, follow these steps:

1. Adjust the image's size using the techniques discussed in Chapter 6. (This ...