Layers let you separate elements within an image and change an individual element without making the change across the entire image.

Slicing and layering for both mediaĪs with previous versions, Photoshop 6.0 centers on image-editing tools and effects for layers. To tackle image compression on the Web, Photoshop 6.0 features weight optimization, a technique for varying compression levels within an image, so that similar color sections are compressed significantly, but text is not. 'Basically, you can now do anything involving static Web pages - even HTML - within Photoshop, and then use Image Ready for dynamic Web graphics.' Now, you can do slicing right in Photoshop 6.0, Connor says. With Photoshop 5.5, you had to use Image Ready for slicing images - a technique used in Web design to separate parts of images and apply different compression schemes to each, thereby speeding downloads. 'Now you can do that in Photoshop and even create more complex shapes for buttons.' 'The biggest reason people use Macromedia Fireworks with Photoshop are its object-oriented controls, which let you quickly drag in a rectangle and apply a style to create a Web button or banner,' says Kevin Connor, senior product manager. Now, Adobe hopes Photoshop meets those needs. To make Photoshop more suited for editing images for both print and online media, Adobe has added some of the Web graphics features found in tools like Macromedia's Fireworks. Subscribe to IDG.net's free daily newslettersįor a full review of Photoshop 6.0, see 'Photoshop 6.0 adds vector tools,' link below. Questions about computers? Let IDG.net's editors help you For more-advanced Web graphics, Photoshop 6.0 also bundles Image Ready 3.0 but still maintains it as a separate application, making for a memory-intensive duo. It adds Web graphics features such as vector shape object tools, image slicing and Web-focused compression techniques. Available in September and priced at $609 ($199 for an upgrade), Photoshop 6.0 goes a step further. Photoshop 6.0, which Adobe announced Monday, builds off version 5.5, which bundled the image editor with Adobe's Web graphics tool, Image Ready 2 (see 'Adobe Photoshop 5.5 bundles Web-design app,' link below). (IDG) - With Photoshop 6.0, Adobe seems to finally be pushing image editing to the Web with conviction.

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