Export Color Space, etc?

Question

I'm a couple of days into a trial of Fireworks and I got it
only for two reasons: First to be able to create navigation bars
with popup menus on some of the menu options and second, to more
easily create photo galleries for my web site. (I'm quite
comfortable with PhotoShop and creating web-optimized images.)
Anyway, I've run into a couple of things that have got me
stumped...
If I use FW CS3 to optimize a JPG image for the web (either
from directly within FW or via the Create Web Photo Album command
from within Dreamweaver CS3) the resulting images no longer have a
color space embedded. And I can't find out how to embed one. The
original JPG images were created in PS CS3 and had the sRBG color
space embedded and the colors displayed as expected in a web
browser. The resulting "optimized" images no
longer have a color space embedded and the colors appear quite off.
This might be acceptable with some vector graphics or logos but
it's not acceptable with photgraphs, especially for a photography
web site.
(It's quite well-known, at least in photography circles that
for proper display of the colors, images designed for the web
should be in sRGB with that space embedded, as that is what web
browsers are optimized for. Anything else, including not embedding
a color space results in colors that are "off".)
A related issue is that when using the Create Web Photo Album
from within DW CS3 the resulting files all have a new suffix of
"_jpg" added to the name. Meaning that my
original "name.jpg" gets named
"name_jpg.jpg". I really don't like that, and
can't find how to turn it off.
(I went to a large bookstore to buy a FW book today but they
didn't have any. And the only one they even listed on their
computer is due to be published at the end of February!)
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Eldor - Montreal

Answer 1

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EldorG wrote:
> As I said, PEBCAK error. But that still leaves me
with the file name 'problem'
> I mentioned... that my images get named from
'name.jpg' to 'name_jpg.jpg'.
> This happens when I use the 'Create Web Photo Album'
from Dreamweaver CS3
> (which in turn calls FW to do the work). Should I
post that in the DW forum,
> or is it a FW thing? Thanks very much! Eldor
Don't name them in FW. Allow them to be exported with the
names they
already have.
Linda Rathgeber [PVII] *Adobe Community Expert-Fireworks*
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Linda, I'm
not naming the images in FW. As a matter of fact, I never
even see a FW dialog. If I optimize an image directly from within
FW, there is no problem. But doing so from Dreamweaver (through the
Create Web Photo Album command which seems to call FW to automate
the work) causes the images to be reduntantly renamed. And I don't
see an option anywhere to change this.
As I said, I'm not sure if this is something I should be
asking in the FW forum or the DW forum. But since this option
doesn't even exist in DW until FW is installed and FW is called
from DW to do this, I really don't know where to ask.
How does that FW automation work? Is there a script file or
something somewhere that I might find and modify?
That option in DW not only optimizes a bunch of images, it
creates thumbnails as well, and writes all the stuff into HTML code
to produce a table of the images. So I can't just go to FW and
manually optimize an image.
Regards...
Eldor