Macromedia® DreamWeaver® MX Unleashed By Matthew Pizzi, Zak Ruvalcaba
Table of Contents
Part III. Adding Interactivity
By Matt Pizzi
IN THIS CHAPTER
Specifying External Editors
Editing Images in Dreamweaver with Fireworks
Optimizing an Image in Dreamweaver with Fireworks
Inserting Fireworks's HTML Command
Creating a Web Photo Album
Using Photoshop with Dreamweaver MX
This chapter is about applications that add functionality to Dreamweaver. Most notably is Fireworks MX. The tight integration between these two products makes for an efficient Web design studio. We'll also look at other applications such as Adobe Photoshop/ImageReady.
Macromedia has included some features that simplify the process of making changes to images. When developing for the Web, especially for a client, changes always have to be made. It can get brutally time-consuming to open your image-editing application, tweak the graphic, and re-export the image. After exporting, you would then have to re-import it into Dreamweaver. Fortunately, that's not the case you can do all this without ever having to re-import anything into Dreamweaver; in fact, it's much like not having to leave Dreamweaver at all.
To take advantage of these integration features, it's important to have Fireworks MX installed on your system. This chapter also covers how to integrate Dreamweaver with Photoshop, so make sure you have at least version 5.5 of Photoshop installed on your system to complete the Photoshop exercises.
