Missing in Dreamweaver Application, the photo crop tool with update. You REMOVED IT!!

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August 16, 2021
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Previous Version of Dreamweave in the Property Popup allowed cropping and other tools of photoes without leaving the application. Now I need to open Photoshop to crop an edge or something like that and then go back to Dreamweaver and update the image settings to see if the fix worked. This change has RUIN my productivity. I pay per month for this stuff, but your program designers have a limited view to what this is being used for. We product an on going Newsletter with multiple photos update instantaneous to our web site. It is almost worth going back to the previous application to use this function. Why did you take it out. IT IS HURTING MY BPRODUCTIVITY!!!!

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Nancy OShea

Community Expert

I wouldn't revert to an old DW version over this. It's not worth it. Up until a few years ago, DW had no graphics tools because DW was and still is a code editor, not a graphics app. Use the right tools for the job.

Web images should always be cropped, resized and optimized for the web BEFORE you bring them into DW. This is even more essential when using the <picture> element to display different sized images on various devices (aka responsive images).

https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml5_picture

Assuming your newsletter is based on a re-usable template, you should know exactly what the height and width of your images must be. Whoever is responsible for preparing your web graphics should be batch processing them in Photoshop, not Dreamweaver.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

B i r n o u

Legend

I don't quite share your point of view, neither on the date when this feature was in place, nor on the flow principle.
At least as long as it is done in a well managed way.

In fact this kind of functionality goes back to the Macromedia days, when DW and FW were fully integrated with each other... we called it roundtrip between applications, ... besides a number of features (gone one by one since...), like Design Notes, FTP publishing from FW, shared URLs in list form, tabulated data, etc... and at the time when CSS was still in its infancy... tabular layout... let's go roundtrip... some graphics stuff made in DW... other HTML made in FW...

Adobe came along ... added a couple of tidbits, integrated the PSD format, even swept away PNG (native) and the confusion came... and here I agree with you about not cropping an original but an export format... which was the case (even with PSD) when roundtrip was still handled correctly... time saving.