Photoshop CC: The Missing Manual

Building Online Photo Galleries

Once you’ve massaged and tweaked your images to perfection, why not have Photoshop prepare a web-ready photo gallery, complete with thumbnails and enlargements? Actually, Bridge CS6—yes, you read that right—can do all the work using something called the Adobe Output Module (AOM). However, as of this writing, Adobe has ripped that feature out of Bridge CC. Why? Adobe says it’s because

POWER USERS’ CLINIC: Zoomify Your Enlargements

It can be dangerous to post a full-sized image on the Web—you’re practically giving thieves permission to steal it. But if you’re a photographer and you want folks to see all the intricate details of your work, you can protect your images by using a Photoshop feature called Zoomify.

Instead of posting an image as one high-quality piece, Zoomify chops it into pieces and displays it in a Flash-based window with controls that visitors can use to zoom in on and move around within the image. (People who view the image need to have the Adobe Flash plug-in installed on their computers, but if they don’t, their browser should prompt them to get it [it’s free].) That way, instead of seeing the whole thing at full size, they see only one piece at a time, so they can’t grab it by taking a screenshot or downloading the whole image. Plus, Zoomify exports to Flash and HTML5, which gives your image’s admirers a few more viewing options. To see Zoomify in action, visit www.bertmonroy.com/timessquare/timessquare.html.

To use Zoomify, follow these ...