Zoomify lets you post high resolution photos to your website and creates panning style navigation.
Most times when you post photos online you try to make the files fairly small to ensure that viewers won’t wait too long to load the images.
But Photoshop’s Zoomify command lets you create pages with high resolution and panaromic images that are composites of smaller, faster loading jpegs, which greatly improves load time.
And it’s so simple to use.
Simply go to File>Export>Zoomify. The template field allows you to pick a colour for your interface.
The Base Name will be the name of the html file Photoshop creates for you.
Make a folder and select it to save your zoomified files in. Set jpeg quality – keep this high, you want your image to look good.
Set what size you want your browser interface to be (maximum width is 1000 pixels).
Make sure the Open in Web Browser box is checked to see your new creation immediately.
That’s all there is to it, just hit OK and your files will be created ready for upload – a zoomify viewer swf file, the tile group of small jpegs, an image properties xml file and the html file.
The interface will look something like this shot of a spring commute on Great Slave Lake. (You can zoom in and see a guy on the houseboat – is that Adrian?)
And lastly – don’t forget to add a target=”_blank” attribute unless you plan to add navigation to the page!
