ImageReady is Photoshop ’s web-specific companion Program.  You can launch ImageReady by {Clicking} the “Jump to Default Graphics Editor” button on the Toolbar from within Photoshop.  ImageReady’s workspace, made up of a Toolbox , Menus, and Palettes is very similar to Photoshop’s.  There are however important differences.  Before covering these differences however, it is important to learn to use Photoshop and learn about Image Fundamentals.  ImageReady’s web-specific features are introduced in later chapters.

Photoshop  and ImageReady work in tandem.  You can edit an image in either application and switch or move to the other.  For instance, you can edit an image in Photoshop and switch to ImageReady to prepare it for the Internet.  Photoshop will automatically open the image you have been editing in ImageReady.  If you need to go back to Photoshop to make some changes using Photoshop’s features the image will move back to Photoshop with all the changes you have made to it in ImageReady intact.