The ultimate dream of every iShell User is finally here: full
integration of your Photoshop documents inside iShell! Coupled with
our innovative MVO file format, you'll get the added benefit of files
that are up to 5 times smaller than Photoshop files.
Photoshop Integeration
Currently iShell supports Photoshop files but they are treated
exactly the same as standard JPEG or PNG files: only the "flattened" single-layer image is displayed.
ImageLayer, on the other hand, allows you to work with individual
Photoshop Layers and then extracts from your layers:
- Name
- X, Y position
- Width, Height
- Alpha Channel
- Opacity
- And much more...
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Smart Integeration
Because ImageLayer extracts so much information from each layer, we
use this to better integrate this with iShell, including:
- Support for iShell 3 button behavior
- Calculating the cursor boundary region on the alpha channel
- An extremely easy way to create flipbooks based on layer sets
- Advanced Flipbooks: instead of one cell being drawn, multiple cells can be drawn at the same time.
- Advanced Button support, create very complex buttons automatically in Photoshop.
Photoshop Synchronizations:
Besides the new integration of multiple layers, another significant
feature of the ImageLayer plugin comes in synchronization: update
your Photoshop document, and your iShell project updates
automatically!
No other authoring tool delivers this level of integration with
Photoshop. Your favorite graphic software becomes your iShell
Developer!
MVO (Media Versatile Objects) File Format
Photoshop files tend to be very large, and so are not an ideal format
for distribution over the internet or on a CD-ROM. To solve this
problem, we created a new file format that contains all the
Photoshop information and saves each Layer in JPEG or PNG. This new format, used by the ImageLayer plugin, contains all the data from the standard Photoshop file, but at a dramatically smaller file size. During testing, we saw 1 MB Photoshop files reduced to 200 KB MVO
files - one fifth the size!
Currently ImageLayer Doesn't work with Adobe PhotoShop Creative Suite 2 documents. We are looking into the issue, because the document format has changed we are in contact with Adobe to obtain the latest info. So for the moment Please use andy version prior to Photoshop CS 2.
Thanks to Stefan Fürst and Troy Rollins for Icon designs
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