Photoshop CS3 now has a great new feature that allows you to automatically export an image into a Flash-based Zoomify viewer. This means that you can view hi-res photographs without having to worry about download times. You have probably seen this feature on a lot of shopping websites. It uses low-res versions of the image until you focus in on an area and then it downloads the hi-res version of just that chunk. Check out the example below by using the zoom controls at the bottom of the viewer.
Photoshop CS3 Export to Zoomify!
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[... Photoshop CS3 now has a great new feature that allows you to automatically export an image into a Flash-based Zoomify viewer. This means that you can view hi-res photographs without ...]
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[... Photoshop CS3 now has a great new feature that allows you to automatically export an image into a Flash-based Zoomify viewer. This means that you can view hi-res photographs without ...]
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[... Photoshop CS3 now has a great new feature that allows you to automatically export an image into a Flash-based Zoomify viewer. This means that you can view hi-res photographs without ...]
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Lee Brimelow is a Platform Evangelist at Adobe and lives in the SF Bay Area.
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This is sooo cool!I didn’t know about that..
The company i work for (metaliq.com) develop/designed it for zoomify to work in photoshop. They actually have other versions of it at zoomify.com i believe.
sweet. too bad i am still running an old version of pshop.
Yes, I’ve used this tool in a few projects and I must say it’s a very good feature that Adobe has added on it’s new Photoshop CS3.
nice example shown, does it load the rest of the higher quality picture in the background or just in chunks all the time?
interesting!
Nice, works very fast too!
That’s awesome! I never knew that about Photoshop CS3, not that I would go looking for it anyways. Nice work.
Is this also coming for CS2 ????
AJAX implementation of Zoomify viewer!
The Brain Maps AJAX-Zoomify viewer may be used with your own Zoomify images. It is much faster than Flash-based versions. Try it yourself. Future versions will enable you to add overlays to brain maps (including markers and polylines) and display shadowed “info windows”. The Brain Maps API is a free service, available for any web site that is free to consumers.
link:
http://brainmaps.org/index.php?p=brain-maps-api
I haven’t been able to figure out how to use the zoomify tool effectively yet.
OpenZoom Tango is a drop-in replacement for the original Zoomify viewer in Adobe Photoshop CS3/CS4. It offers…
* Fullscreen support
* Mouse navigation (click to zoom in and Shift-click to zoom out)
* Mouse wheel support in all browsers (scroll to zoom)
* Keyboard navigation (Pan with W, S, A, D or arrow keys, Zoom with + / – or I and O, Show All with H, Fullscreen with F.)
* Context Menu support
* Standards-compliant Flash embed through SWFObject
* 6 templates — Normal / Fullscreen: black, gray and white.
* Just 40KB — 100% Flash, no Flex.
* 100% Open Source. No branding.
Check it out at
http://gasi.ch/blog/pimp-your-photoshop-zoomify-with-openzoom/
Cheers,
Daniel