fireworks vs photoshop
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- antoine_101
im a print designer learning web design using macromedia (although now adobe) products.
how many of you use fireworks over photoshop and is fireworks better? or do you guys use photoshop for more in depth arty stuff?
- winter0
fireworks = web
photoshop= print and websites with jpg's of glowing white horses coming out of some freakin' future intergalactical explosion.my synthesis from a long-standing debate.
- canuck0
ps.
- Jnr_Madison0
For web stuff and just messing about I use fireworks.
- fate_0
I really like using Fireworks better because of it's interface and ease-of-use, it just lacks the sophistication in processes that Photoshop has. Like resizing is stupid in Fireworks.
- Woolhouse0
Really the question should be whether to use Adobe Image Ready or Macromedia Fireworks.
Nothing replaces photoshop in my estimation. Fireworks and Image Ready are really the 2 most cross similar programs.
For Dhtml drop down navigation I'll use Fireworks but I prefer to use Image ready to cut up a site.
- fate_0
My thing is, why have the bloated PS open when photoshop does the same simple operations at 1/5th the RAM space?
- Bullitt0
I guess fireworks is alright, I've never really given it a chance.
- foreign0
what woolhouse said.
- jaymac440
Front Page and Power Point are all you need
- mowax0
agree w/what woolhouse said.
fire work = production work
- ceephax0
tbh i think fireworks is crap
- nooner0
fireworks is an actual pixel based program, so you always see what your graphic will look like at 72 then you are optimizing from there. ps is built for print with web options. fw was built for web. never really used image ready, because fireworks has always been so easy and intutive that i haven't had to go anywhere else.
- blaw0
imageready results in a higher file size for exported images.
fireworks organizes elements more effectively than photoshop (elements are levels within a layer, vs. layers that need to be tucked in a folder).
to select an element in fireworks you click on it (novel idea, 'eh?).
fireworks is both vector and raster in the way most designers are used to.
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obviously photoshop the tool for quality graphic creation/manipulation... but i do all of my web layout work in fireworks.
- jevad0
I have always used pshop. tried using fireworks a couple years back and fucking hated it. I don;t know anyone that uses both - you're either fireworks or pshop
- fifty500
don't like fireworks and don't like when my colleagues do cause it makes sharing files (for work) that much more annoying.
- Point50
I open FW and have no fuckin clue what I'm doing in there. It might be intuitive, but learning that new intuitive process is something I have no time for.
- freshlysqueezed0
Fireworks is easier than PS to learn if you're already familiar with Macromedia apps like D'weaver, Flash, etc.
But if you're learning from scratch, learn PS. Adobe has bought out Macromedia, so I would say that Fireworks' days are numbered.
In an agency, you can bet your bottom dollar that print/graphics guys will be using PS. It makes life a whole lot easier if you're using the same for web...
- jaymac440
fireworks is great for drop down menus
- dijitaq0
i use fireworks only for exporting images to use in flash only.
i noticed that if you export jpegs and pngs from photoshop then import them to flash the colors are off.
not so when you export them from fireworks.
- jevad0
i use fireworks only for exporting images to use in flash only.
i noticed that if you export jpegs and pngs from photoshop then import them to flash the colors are off.
not so when you export them from fireworks.
dijitaq
(Dec 11 05, 18:40)are you on a mac?