Photoshop vs. Fireworks 4242 Responses

Last post: 1 month, 3 weeks ago | Thread started: May 13, 08, 1:52 p.m.

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• meatball

  Does anyone use fireworks for designing sites? i've been a photoshop whore for a while, but i've been playing around with fireworks, and it does seem to have some advantages... - It seems to be up in the air if they are discontinuing it or not though.

  May 13, 08, 1:52 p.m. – Permalink

• 7point34

  i used it for a short while and hated it... have limited knowledge so i can't offer any useful crit of it

  still hate it though

  

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  Dog-earMay 13, 08, 1:53 p.m. – Permalink

• fyoucher1

  Fireworks is better for optimizing images and creating animated gifs.

  • ANIMATED GIFS!!?? I am so there...– Jaline1/4

    that was the only reason i ever used it– bulletfactory2/4

    has someone informed spooky of this? The animated gif is his holy grail.– flashbender3/4

    was better..
    till CS came out– Meeklo4/4

  

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  Dog-earMay 13, 08, 1:53 p.m. – Permalink

• fyoucher1

  And quick proto's...

  

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  Dog-earMay 13, 08, 1:53 p.m. – Permalink

• CALLES

  i personally like photon torpedos

  • KHAAAAAN!– 7point34

  

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  Dog-earMay 13, 08, 2:03 p.m. – Permalink

• flyingnowhere

  fuck fireworks

  

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  Dog-earMay 13, 08, 2:03 p.m. – Permalink

• dskz

  its better for compressing small images

  • it's better for many things– madirish1/4

    lattes, for example– harlequino2/4

    i was going to say Caprihanas, but lattes will work....– madirish3/4

    fireworks vultures...fireworks– dskz4/4

  

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  Dog-earMay 13, 08, 2:04 p.m. – Permalink

• Josev

  I prefer using Fireworks for screen layouts. The frames feature allows you to layout multiple pages in a single document and the symbol feature is very useful. I also think its cool that you can create a symbol (like a repeating header or icon), and if you change the symbol it populates across all of your page layouts. I still use Phototshop for more complex photography image manipulation

  • "complex photography image manipulation" -- I need to start reading what I'm typing.– Josev1/4

    yeah, that was one of the features i liked– meatball2/4

    photoshop does all that. 'layer comps' and 'smart objects'– cuke4263/4

    completely agree. Fireworks is a breeze to use. Really good.– dorfsman4/4

  

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  Dog-earMay 13, 08, 2:10 p.m. – Permalink

• Fariska

  Just photoshop, even if i reckon that fireworks is quite good

  

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  Dog-earMay 13, 08, 2:14 p.m. – Permalink

• kult

  Fireworks. That's a good joke.

  • Actually, a cruel joke. How can anyone stand Fireworks.– kult

  

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  Dog-earMay 13, 08, 2:27 p.m. – Permalink

• landock

  I prefer fireworks for layout work because it's designed as a layout tool so its faster for me at least. You can also work with vectors more easily .

  

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  Dog-earMay 13, 08, 2:34 p.m. – Permalink

• meatball

  thanks for your thoughts - i'll keep messing around with it on the side till I figure out if it works for me or not..

  

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  Dog-earMay 13, 08, 2:41 p.m. – Permalink

• ninjasavant

  PS CS3 does animated gifs now.

  • it did on CS1 and 2– Meeklo1/2

    PS CS3 doesn't– stewart2/2

  

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  Dog-earMay 13, 08, 2:43 p.m. – Permalink

• CyBrain

  I don't do a lot of html sites or heavy production, so I would never leave Photoshop for another.

  

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  Dog-earMay 13, 08, 3:09 p.m. – Permalink

• enfocusmedia

  no contest here... it's not 1998

  

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  Dog-earMay 13, 08, 3:34 p.m. – Permalink

• Llyod

  I always liked fireworks better for optimization

  

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  Dog-earMay 13, 08, 3:38 p.m. – Permalink

• moamoa

  

  • ahahaha– Meeklo1/2

    LMAO!!– mg332/2

  

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  Dog-earMay 13, 08, 3:39 p.m. – Permalink

• Jnr_Madison

  I've used both for ages and they're both a pile of shit.

  

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  Dog-earMay 13, 08, 3:40 p.m. – Permalink

• MrDinky

  isnt main benefit of fireworks is that its rendered in vector so you can easily export to flash? and doing quick prototypes?

  • yes. also slicing is easier– Llyod1/2

    true.. but i do manual slicing.. i dont do any imageready slicing..– MrDinky2/2

  

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  Dog-earMay 13, 08, 3:42 p.m. – Permalink

• Llyod

  the only piece of software between the adobe/macromedia merger that should remain if Freehand which is just great for drawing.

  • freehand was a great tool for illustration.. i think..– MrDinky1/2

    yes– Llyod2/2

  

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  Dog-earMay 13, 08, 3:42 p.m. – Permalink

• Corvo

  FW is more than enough for most of web work.
  Big advantage: simple, precise vector editing.
  Disadvantage: fonts anti-alias is not as perfect as in PS.

  • also texturing effects..– MrDinky1/3

    = anti-aliasing.– Corvo2/3

    And lack of Open Type support– poomoo3/3

  

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  Dog-earMay 13, 08, 3:44 p.m. – Permalink