Fireworks 8

[izwar]

What is this program used for and what does it do? is it used to compress image files for the web or something of that sort or is it like image ready were u slice web pages up i dnno.

[deronsizemore]

Fireworks is basically Macromedia's Photoshop. It's a graphics editing program. I never really liked Fireworks much at all. I much prefer Photoshop, but most people don't go with Photoshop because of the price, so they settle for Fireworks or Paint Shop Pro which is much cheaper and can do a lot of the same stuff. You can also slice web pages up with Fireworks like you would in ImageReady.

[izwar]

thanks, ill stick with my photoshop CS2 then.

[Emancipator]

fireworks is ok, I own a copy but it doesnt compare to photoshop cs2. I only bought fireworks because it came as part of a bundle i bought last year from macromedia when I bought flash pro.

[Johnny Gulag]

I like FW's myself. I use it as my main graphics program. :)

More info: http://www.adobe.com/products/fireworks/productinfo/features/

[Johnny Gulag]

I also just found this as well: http://www.pixelyzed.com/pixelforge/whychoosefireworks/

[deronsizemore]

I like FW's myself. I use it as my main graphics program. :)

More info: http://www.adobe.com/products/fireworks/productinfo/features/


Oh yeah, forgot Adobe took over Macromedia.

[bbolte]

fireworks and photoshop really are for 2 different things. fireworks is really closer to adobe's image ready. it's for building digital graphics - not really for photo editing as it just chokes on large (high resolution) images. but it wasn't designed for that. it excells at building web/mulitmedia interfaces and graphics. personally, i like it better for that then photoshop.

[Emancipator]

yeah the one thing fireworks does really well is what imageready does really badly :)

[izwar]

which is? so by what i see fireworks is used to optimize images for a site, like bring down teh file sizes while maintaining quality?

[bbolte]

that's one thing it does. it's a graphics program with a focus on digital as opposed to print.

[bbolte]

read about it here: http://www.adobe.com/products/fireworks/

[organ]

I currently use the fireworks mx 2004.

[bbolte]

i'm using fireworks 8 and it rocks

[shyampc]

I am not at all satisfied with Fireworks. I find it really difficult to work with it. I am using Photoshop for almost every works. But, comparing, both of these softwares have their own positives and negatives.