Quick Start: Zoom quick-start-zoom
Zoom lets you interactively view high-resolution details in images. For example, you can view image details in a dynamic, fully configurable, integrated viewer. This viewer can be embedded on a Web page or appear in a pop-up window. To examine images closely, you can magnify them and pan at high resolutions. Zooming gives your users an engaging, informative, and interactive viewing experience.
Adobe Dynamic Media Classic also offers guided zooming – a means for you to highlight the important features in an image. For example, to focus the attention of viewers on a logo, you can create a zoom target for the logo. When users select this zoom target, they zoom to the logo.
All zoom images are created and served from single primary images, graphics, and database-driven attributes. Adobe Dynamic Media Classic zooming greatly reduces the time and cost of producing and delivering images. You can use Zoom Viewers to magnify and reduce images. The Zoom Viewer has buttons that you can select to zoom and pan; you can also pan by moving the pointer onscreen. Using Zoom Viewer Presets, you can configure the Zoom Viewer with which you magnify images.
See Zoom Target: Dynamic Imaging and Zoom: Dynamic Imaging training videos.
The following Zoom Quick Start is designed to help you begin using Zoom techniques in Adobe Dynamic Media Classic. Follow steps 1 through 6. After each step, there is a cross-reference to a topic heading where you can find more information.
1. Upload Zoom Images
Upload your zoom images to Adobe Dynamic Media Classic. For optimal zooming, Adobe Dynamic Media Classic recommends that the images be at least 2000 pixels in the longest dimension.
On the Global Navigation bar, select Upload to upload images from your computer or network to a folder on Adobe Dynamic Media Classic. See Upload zoom images.
2. Create Zoom Targets for guided zooming
Zoom targets let you identify specific parts of an image. For example, you can highlight the parts of an image that make it unique or distinctive. In the Zoom Viewer window, Zoom Targets appear as thumbnail images to the side of the image. Selecting one of these zoom target thumbnails automatically zooms to a part of the image that you specify.
To create a zoom target, select Edit > Zoom Targets, or open an image in the Browse panel Detail View and select Zoom Targets. Then use the Zoom tools on the Zoom Target Editor page to select part of the image as a target. See Create Zoom Targets for Guided Zoom.
3. Set up Zoom Viewer Presets
Zoom Viewer Presets determine the style and behavior of your Zoom Viewers. You can set up Zoom Viewer Presets if you are an administrator; Adobe Dynamic Media Classic comes with default standard Zoom Viewer Presets as well.
To create a Zoom Viewer Preset, on the Global Navigation bar, go to Setup > Viewer Presets. On the Viewer Presets page, select Add, choose a platform and a Zoom Viewer, and then select Add. Then choose options on the Configure Viewer page.
Adobe Dynamic Media Classic offers Zoom Viewer Preset options that let you select the button style and overall look of the viewer. You can also customize the zoom settings for your website. See Set up Zoom Viewer Presets.
4. Preview images with the Zoom Viewer
To see the zooming experience, you can preview images in a Zoom Viewer.
To explore different Zoom Viewer Presets and how they present the zooming experience, select an image in the Browse panel and select Preview. Go to Presets > Zoom, and then select a preset with the Zoom menu.
Zoom buttons appear. You can see what the zoom images look like on your website. Select the Zoom buttons (and Zoom Targets) to test the settings of the Zoom Viewer Preset you chose. See Preview images with different Zoom Viewers.
5. Publish Zoom images
Publishing your zoom images places them on Dynamic Media Image Servers so that they can be delivered to your websites and applications. As part of the publishing process, Adobe Dynamic Media Classic activates URL strings. These URL strings call zoom images from Dynamic Media Image Servers to your website or application.
On the Global Navigation bar, select Publish. On the Publishing dialog box, select Submit Publish. See Publishing zoom images.
6. Link Zoom Viewers to your Web page
Adobe Dynamic Media Classic creates the URL callout strings necessary for zooming images, and activates them when you publish images to Dynamic Media Image Servers. You can copy these URL strings from the Preview page. After you copy the URL strings, they are available for your websites and applications. See Link Zoom Viewers to your Web page