Adobe Connectivity
I??™ve spoken at a great many conferences over the years, for both dedicated Dreamweaver and general Web
designer audiences. In my opening remarks, I typically try to get a sense of the crowd??™s expertise by asking
who uses what tools. Time and time again, I would see a great many folks using Photoshop and
Dreamweaver together, even though there was no clear path and many barriers. Now, with Dreamweaver
CS3, the barriers have been dashed and the path paved??”not just to Photoshop, but to other products in
the Adobe family as well.
Dreamweaver CS3 supports Photoshop in two major ways. First, you can now open a Photoshop CS3
native format file (PSD) and export it to a Web-ready format, all inside of Dreamweaver. Open any PSD file,
scale it, crop it, optimize it, and save it as a GIF, JPG, or PNG file in one slick operation (Figure 1-2). You
say you??™d rather just work directly from Photoshop and bring in images when needed? No problem. Now
you can copy an image or layer (or even merged layers) in Photoshop and paste it into Dreamweaver; you??™ll
have the same opportunity to store your new image in whatever Web format is best. Better still, both methods
of working give you the option to return to Photoshop to make any needed adjustments before
smoothly sliding back into Dreamweaver.
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