Switching from Photoshop to Fireworks
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I started in Fireworks and switched to Photoshop when I started doing more creative things. Now my work and choice is taking me back to a stricter design structure and I've been opening up Fireworks now and again for Web Layout work. I'm an awful sketcher, to the point where if I show a design sketched out by hand my boss probably won't like it. If I then recreate the same thing digitally in FW (or PS) he will like it. This isn't error or a bad call from my boss, just a testament to how bad my sketching is.
The thing that I've always liked with Fireworks is that it handles selecting objects directly on the canvas very well. Photoshop's auto-select is awful so I always have to go to layers to select them. The only benefit of that is it means I have to group and label my layers thoroughly to save myself from getting lost! Fireworks is so easy to manage a file and create things quickly that layer structure goes out the window.