Integrate industry-standard design tools into your workflow

Work in the image, graphic, and animation applications you already know and then bring those images and animations into GoLive. Graphic and media assets that you develop in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe LiveMotion maintain their links to the originating application.

Smart Objects

Place non-optimized source files directly on your pages, and then convert the files into Web-formatted graphics. When you resize or make other changes to the graphic on your page, GoLive uses the original source file to generate a new Web-formatted version. (See Adding images to a Web page using Smart Objects.)

Optimized Web images

The Save for Web dialog box displays side-by-side previews of your images to let you compare different compression options and select settings that keep the image quality high and the file size low. (See Optimizing images for the Web.)

Smart and lean rollovers

Develop mouse rollovers that maintain links to the source images and automatically detect "over" and "down" versions of the images for the rollovers. Make changes in a source image, such as to a URL in a navigational link, and GoLive automatically updates the rollover image. Export the rollover's JavaScript code to a separate library file that can be cached in the browser. (See Creating mouse rollovers.)

Variations on an image

Using variables in Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator SVG, and Adobe LiveMotion files, you can create different versions of an image based on one source file. For example, you can change the content of text in a Photoshop file or the visibility and style of an object in a LiveMotion file. (See Creating multiple versions of an image using variables.)

Converted text to a styled image

If you use Adobe LiveMotion to develop Web graphics and animations, you can design styles for headline text and then automatically convert text in your GoLive pages to images that use that style. (See Converting text to an image on a Web page.)