Interesting piece by Zeldman about Adobe deprecating Save For Web. 

1. Yes indeed I remember ImageReady.
2. My web graphics act still hasn't recovered from its demise.
3. PhotoShop is way too much for me. I have tried to use it and failed. I need less than what ImageReady did. But it worked for me.
4. I am a programmer, so I need to work with bitmaps. But I am not a photography editor.
5. Before ImageReady, I used Canvas. That's also gone. (I see that it's back, but I doubt it's the same simple little program I used in the 80s. There's no way a $599 graphics program is what I need or could use.)
6. Nowadays I use the Preview app. It's missing a few big features I would love to have. But it does transparency, cropping and resizing. 
7. I wish there was a market for what I do with a paint program, but apparently there is not. Like Zeldman, I hate changing to a new tool, when the old tool was so comfortable. But I'm glad to see Adobe maintains Save For Web, recognizing that there are workflows built around it. It's much much worse in DeveloperLand where the people who maintain the system code change the rules radically every few years, instantly obsoleting huge code bases.