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Adobe ImageReady
Adobe ImageReady CS2 running on XP
Developer	Adobe Systems
Latest release	CS2 (9.0) / April 2005
OS	Mac OS X, Windows
Status	Discontinued
Genre	Bitmap graphics editor
License	Commercial
Website	None

Adobe ImageReady is a bitmap graphics editor that is shipped with Adobe Photoshop by Adobe Systems. It is available on both Windows and Mac OS X platforms.

ImageReady has fewer features than Photoshop and was designed for quick editing of web graphics rather than effects-intensive graphics editing. To that end, ImageReady has specialized features such as animated GIF creation, image compression optimization, image slicing and rollover effects, and HTML generation.

The Photoshop Toolbox has a quick link to ImageReady — the Jump to ImageReady button enables editing of the current image directly in ImageReady. The ImageReady toolbox is similar to Photoshop's toolbox. One set of tools that looks different, however, is the Image Map set of tools, indicated by a shape or arrow with a hand. The toolbox includes several features not found in Photoshop, including:

• Toggle Image Map Visibility and Toggle Slice Visibility tools — These tools toggle between showing and hiding image maps and slices, respectively.
• Preview Document tool — This tool provides a preview of rollover effects in ImageReady rather than viewing them in a browser.
• Preview in Default Browser tool — This tool previews the image in a browser, including any rollover or animation effects.
• Jump to Photoshop — This button opens the current image in Photoshop.

ImageReady is written in the C++ programming language^[1].

Adobe ImageReady 1.0 was released as a standalone application. ImageReady was packaged with Photoshop between version 2.0 and CS2. Adobe synchronized the version numbers of ImageReady and Photoshop beginning with version 7.0.

* current release

With the release of the Creative Suite 3, ImageReady has officially been discontinued, and the expected reason is that since Adobe now owns Fireworks (the ex-Macromedia equivalent of ImageReady, and a more mature and arguably superior product), they don't need ImageReady, and will continue to develop Fireworks instead. There is some ImageReady-style functionality in CS3 found via File > Save For Web & Devices.

Adobe ImageReady could only generate table based code without providing the option of generating table-less code using CSS for positioning. However, beginning with Adobe ImageReady CS2, Adobe provided the option to generate CSS from sliced designs.