Photoshop CS3 : Using Zoomify to display big pictures on the Web

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One of the secondary features in the Photoshop CS3 beta that's of interest to us is the new Zoomify exporter, because it makes light work of presenting high-resolution photos in a web browser.
We've used Zoomify previously, courtesy of the free converter available on the Zoomify website, and it works fine. But, Zoomify's free converter is limited in several ways: there's no control over the degree of JPEG compression, it doesn't wrap up the resulting image pieces and Flash-based viewer in the html code necessary to post a Zoomified picture on the Web (instead, a code template and instructions for manually editing it are included) and the viewer itself is a bit clunky: the control bar overlays the picture and sometimes too easily blends into image content, it's possible to scroll past the edges of the picture and the loading of new picture segments, while fast, lacks the smoothness we're accustomed to from Flash content these days. Read the full article here

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