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There's a plug in that is built into Photoshop CS3 called zoomify and what it allows you to do is to give your website viewers the ability to see your artwork at full power at full screen size and let's them zoom in and out and move around your document at will. Let me go ahead and demonstrate this to you. First of all you'll notice that on this file its only at 25 percent and it's a DVD cover and it's pretty big. For me to show people this on the website would take a lot of space so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go to file and I'm gonna choose to go to my export options here and I'm gonna choose zoomify. A zoomify export dialog box appears and I can choose a template so that the viewer itself will have a black background or whatever background I need. I'm gonna go ahead and choose the black background and then I can choose an output location and in this case I'm gonna simply create a new folder on my desktop. Although in reality I would create this folder in my web folder and upload, upload it to my server, so I'm gonna call it zero zoom. I'll create that folder and then I'll choose it. Let me make sure I created that folder, I think I actually cancelled by mistake, and there we go zero zoom and now what I'm gonna do as well is I can choose the base names. So I'm gonna leave it at the default which is the zero dvd cover two. Then I can choose an image tile option and what happens is when you export this file zoomify will really cut your image up into tiny chunks called tiles so that you will be able to zoom in on them. So what I'm gonna do is leave everything as it is and then I'm going to make sure I have open in web browser, open as well, so that when we're done my web browser will open for me. I can also choose to enter my own dimensions here as far as browser options, so I'm going to make this 600 pixels by 600 pixels. And now I'll click OK. And zoomify works it's magic and then in a moment my web browser which is safari will open up and let me go ahead and show you this is the window, 600 by 600 and if I scroll down you'll see that I have some controls here so I can move my mouse left and right and zoom in all the way and then because their tiled it gives me this nice crisp clean image. Look at that, how cool is that? So people can really zoom in and look at your artwork and I can use these controls as well to navigate. I can use this to move to the left, I can hold my mouse down or I can click, I can go up, hold the mouse down, move down, move to the right and I can resize or reset by clicking this button here and this takes me back to the original size here. So as you see what zoomify allows you to do is really uh use a high quality image so that your web visitors can really explore your artwork, Now I'm also gonna go to my finder and show what the folder looks like. So I'm gonna go to my desktop and here's my zero zoom folder and in reality by the way I would have an underscore there or a hyphen so that I don't have a space. The web doesn't like spaces. And here is the HTML code that Photoshop wrote for me which contains zoom, zoomify code. And here are the tiles, so let me go ahead in this folder and show you. These are all the tiles that make up the zoomify magic behind the scenes so people can zoom in on your artwork. How cool is that? So once again zoomify is really good for people who want to show products, show Photos that have a lot of detail and also show files that would normally take up too much space to really enjoy it full size and they, the viewer will be able to use the control to navigate and explore your artwork.
| Course: | Adobe Photoshop CS3 |
| Author: | Dwayne Ferguson |
| SKU: | 33782 |
| ISBN: | 1-933736-98-4 |
| Release Date: | 2007-08-02 |
| Duration: | 9 hrs / 161 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |