Dreamweaver

Copy a Photoshop selection into your page

You can copy all or some of a Photoshop image and paste the selection into your Dreamweaver page as a web-ready image. You can copy a single layer or a set of layers for a selected area of the image or you can copy a slice of the image.

  1. In Photoshop, do one of the following:

    • Copy all or part of a single layer by using the Marquee tool to select the portion you want to copy, and then choose Edit > Copy. This copies only the active layer for the selected area into the clipboard. If you have layer-based effects, they are not copied.

    • Copy and merge multiple layers by using the Marquee tool to select the portion you want to copy, and then choose Edit > Copy Merged. This flattens and copies all the selected area’s active and lower layers into the clipboard. If you have layer-based effects associated with any of these layers, they are copied.

    • Copy a slice by using the Slice Select tool to select the slice, and then choose Edit > Copy. This flattens and copies all the slice’s active and lower layers into the clipboard.

    You can choose Select > All to quickly select all of an image for copying.
  2. In Dreamweaver (Design or Code view), place the insertion point on your page where you want the image inserted.
  3. Select Edit > Paste.
  4. In the Image Preview dialog box, adjust optimization settings as needed and click Export.
  5. Save the web‑ready image file to a location within your website’s root folder.

    • If you have a default images folder and you save the file to a location outside your root folder, the file is saved to that location and also copied to your default images folder.

    • If you do not have a default images folder and you save the file to a location outside your root folder, Dreamweaver saves it to that location and also asks if you want a copy of the file saved in your root folder. Typically you will choose to accept this option. If you cancel at this point, the file is not placed in the Dreamweaver page, although the web-ready image is saved to the external location you chose.

Dreamweaver defines the image according to your optimization settings and places a web-ready version of your image in your page. Information about the image, such as the location of the original PSD source file, is saved in a Design Note, regardless of whether you have enabled Design Notes for your site. The Design Note allows you to return to edit the original Photoshop file from Dreamweaver.

For a tutorial on copying and pasting between different applications, including Dreamweaver and Photoshop, see www.adobe.com/go/vid0193.