cs2 to website

pretty lost i would love to know how to get my photos onto my website using cs2 "is this even possible or do i need other software? my site was built with frontpage and i was told i would be able to connect with the server hosting my site and upload gallerys to it i dont know if cs2 has this ability i have made some gallerys from the bridge via "web photo gallery" but only view them in the sample mode have no idea what steps to take from there to load to my page .. or even if this is possible with just cs2

anyone?
Billy Carr

I'm not sure if PSCS2 will allow you to upload its web gallery to a web site (I know PSCS does not) but if you have admin access to your own online web site, then all you need is an FTP program to upload the gallery to the web. There are a lot of freeware and shareware FTP programs you can download if you don't have one already.

It depends what you mean by CS2. If you have Creative Suite 2 Premium, that includes GoLive CS2, which is Adobe's web authoring software. That can handle uploads and synchronising sites. (Having mentioned GoLive, I should say that the future is uncertain - now that Adobe have bought Macromedia, it may be that they decide to retire GoLive and put all future development effort into Dreamweaver).

The Web Photo Gallery features of Photoshop CS2 leave you with a folder full of files. To upload them, you could add them to your web site in a web tool such as GoLive or FrontPage. However, it's probably easier to use a file uploading and synchronising tool - what FTP or SFTP program do you use (depending on whether you use FTP or SFTP to upload to your web space)? I'd either use WS_FTP Pro or SecureFX for this job.

David

i dont use a ftp program i am guessing this is my problem i need one to get the pics where i want them to go ?

You don't say whether you're using Mac or Windows - I can only make suggestions of specific software for Windows (I'm guessing Windows because you mention FrontPage).


How does your hosting provider or ISP suggest you get your files onto your web space? The preferred method with my hosting provider is to use SFTP, which is typically only supported in more expensive products. However you can use FTP if you wish.

If WebDAV is offered, you can use the Web Client functionality in Windows XP.


There has to be some reasonable freeware or inexpensive FTP clients that will do the job if all you need is FTP. For SFTP I use either WS_FTP Professional or SecureFX, neither of which are that cheap. There is a cheaper "Home" version of WS_FTP that may do all you need if you don't need SFTP.

As I said, another option is to add the files Photoshop generates to a web site in FrontPage, and upload it that way.

David

i dont have front page and downloaded AceFTP Freeware still not getting me anywhere
cant figure it out

To be honest, this is more a question for your ISP or hosting provider than us - you need to know how to upload files to your web space. Photoshop has created a directory with everything you need in it - you just need to get that onto the web server so that the gallery is available on the web.

David