Adobe ImageReady is a discontinued

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that was shipped with

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for six years. It was available for

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and

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from 1998 to 2007. ImageReady was designed for web development and closely interacted with Photoshop.

Function

ImageReady was designed for

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rather than effects-intensive

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. To that end, ImageReady has specialized features such as

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creation,