Hi,

It's me again... Image Ready... came with CS2, and I have no idea how it is different from CS2PS main application. It is grabbing all of my limages lately! So when i go to view an image it is opening IR, and openiong it in there in spite of trying to reset the viewing options of XP Pro to view in windows. So since it has been opening so much I got to thinking... what is it anyway? I searched on line and there is very little info except that Adobe starting including it in CS a little while back.

ThanX

Ariana

Futurefantasydesign..
you seem to have set photoshop to open everything with IR when you were installing it. Overrule that.. right click on an image.. click on 'open with'..then to choose default program.. a pop up window appers with a lit of programs you can open it up with. Choose photoshop. (I use windows preview) ..if that's what you want. make sure that the 'Always use this program to view this kind of file' is ticked mark.
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IR.. really needed for optimizing pix..

you seem to have set photoshop to open everything with IR when you were installing it. Overrule that.. right click on an image.. click on 'open with'..then to choose default program.. a pop up window appers with a lit of programs you can open it up with. Choose photoshop.

*I did this, I use several programs and default my settings on all of my program to NOT open any file ext. except what applies to them specifically (as in PS always opens my .psd files)  

(I use windows preview) ..if that's what you want. make sure that the 'Always use this program to view this kind of file' is ticked mark. 

I also use Windows Preview! Which is why it is so weird that IR is opening all my files! To me since I have never used it, and I can see no real reason that I ever would, I would like to remove it. But it is not in my 'Add/Delete Programs' list! :/  So before i re-install PS I want to be sure what it is, and I think I saw on the disc menu the ability to not install it.

IF** I can't install PS without it also installing, can I remove it it internally without harming PS's features?  I am including SS's to aid assistance.**

Thank you! :)

**Ariana  **

 

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IR.. really needed for optimizing pix..

I don't suggest you remove IR.. leave it there.. it helps immensely esp when you resizing images into smaller files for email/web..and even uploading it here. I doubt if you can physically remove it without damaging any other file. Not that i'd try that or risk it. It's part of photoshop.

If you go to file..save for web and devices..it automatically opens up into imageready.

When you re-install photoshop.. there pops a list..that asks you whether you want IR or Photoshop to take preference over files. It asks you to tick which ones. It's a blooming long list.. for sure. There is an option that says.. all IR or All Photoshop. Click the all photoshop. That ought to do the trick..

sorry for replying a wee bit late.. day has started here..and though it's a sunday.. i had a bit of errands to get done..

cheers

• rosie

btw..uninstall photoshop before re-installing..

Quote - When you re-install photoshop.. there pops a list..that asks you whether you want IR or Photoshop to take preference over files. It asks you to tick which ones. It's a blooming long list.. for sure. There is an option that says.. all IR or All Photoshop. Click the all photoshop. That ought to do the trick..

sorry for replying a wee bit late.. day has started here..and though it's a sunday.. i had a bit of errands to get done..

cheers

• rosie

No problem Rosie!!! Yes I did do as you said and I always do that as I use PSP and PS equally! PSP is great for fast SS's... Pluys it is also nice for a few features that PS makes sort of over complicated. Like working shadows, and few other things. As I said I only set photoshop to open .psd files. The rest are all unchecked as I select the program (*or something to that effect)

Hugs

Ariana

for some unfathomable reason.. it seems to be defaulting at opening all your files then in IR.. just check "all photoshop" ..and when you want to open it in PSP.. you choose the program..

• cheers
  rosie

To expand a little more on what ImageReady is for, it was originally intended as a standalone program for editing images for the web. It included such things as image slicing and the ability to save the slices complete with HTML code to reconstruct the image on a web page.

What you were meant to do was do most of the actual bitmap editing in PS, then switch to IR and do the slicing and dicing. There's a button on the tool palette in CS2 and earlier to do this (and one in IR to switch back to PS), but it was slow and a real pain on a laptop with limited memory. In CS3 and above most (but annoyingly, not all) of the functions of IR were included in PS itself, and in CS3 and above IR is no longer included.

For more info you can also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imageready.

Quote - To expand a little more on what ImageReady is for, it was originally intended as a standalone program for editing images for the web. It included such things as image slicing and the ability to save the slices complete with HTML code to reconstruct the image on a web page.

What you were meant to do was do most of the actual bitmap editing in PS, then switch to IR and do the slicing and dicing. There's a button on the tool palette in CS2 and earlier to do this (and one in IR to switch back to PS), but it was slow and a real pain on a laptop with limited memory. In CS3 and above most (but annoyingly, not all) of the functions of IR were included in PS itself, and in CS3 and above IR is no longer included.

For more info you can also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imageready.

 

Thank you for that! It is a mystery to me why all of a suden things started to open with it. I don't think Rosie understands that I do know how to set prefs...and I had. This is a sudden glitch that has never occurred before. I guess i will save my brushes and stuff and re-install.

Thank you! :)

Hugs

Ariana 

if you haven't already ran through the "uninstall" - "reinstall" process, try deleting your PS pref file. Then "re"associate the file formats to open with PS. When you launch PS again, the pref file will be "re"created.

as a force of habit, i toss and rebuild my pref file whenever PS gets wonky on me. Saves a LOT of time and trouble with backing up brushes, deactivating, uninstall, reinstalling, reloading brushes and other custom presets...

hope it all clears up for you,
:)
retrocity

Just to be sure will this effect my brushes and other pliug ins? If so let me know and I will copy them over to the 'D' drive for safe keeping. ThanX on that. I often have PS go "wonky" on me too! Like suddenely saying a certain .dll is missing. or that it already has my plugins installed... weird stuff like that.  LOL! Is CS5 any better? I don't doubt it.

ThanX again...

Ariana 

I really miss Image Ready. It did great animations. They took it out of CS4, which I upgraded from CS2 to CS4, and found it was no longer in the program. The animation that is now in Photoshop CS4 does terrible animations, and it not nearly the same.  Wish they would just put it back the way it was. 

In Control Panel/Programs/Default Programs, there may be a setting there to get your computer to open images in Photoshop.

Hope that helps.

If you upgraded from CS2 to CS4, and on the same machine, you probably still have IR in the Adobe/Photoshop CS2 folder. Although there isn't the convenient button to switch between PS and IR in CS4, you should still be able to use IR independently.