image ready | fireworks?
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- ericPowell
image ready cs or fireworks mx 2004?
- umhello0
now that is entirely up to what your doing isnt it? I personally like fireworks because of the tool layout, but imageready is a compliment of photoshop. Oh wait fireworks is basically macromedia's photoshop, and you can do everything in photoshop that you can in imageready.......well then fireworks gets my vote.
- SF20
pshop to make the graphics, fireworks to optimise and export them
- jevad0
it's a personal preference - I cannot stand fireworks myself. more often than not I design in photoshop and then slice it up myself using DW and hard coding/CSS to layout.
WHen it's a rush job I will use ImageReady....
- umhello0
fireworks can make the graphics also, they even let you use pshop filters oooooohhhhh my. You can actually do just about as much as photoshop, key word about. Photoshop just has a more generous span of things it can do, where as fireworks was made more specifically. Fireworks has alot of untapped potential, everyone just assumes its for web only. I've done some work with fireworks when I was allowed to spend the time to figure out where and how to do it, but eventually, the client wants their work....tee hee.
- SF20
fireworks tools are annoying. It also crashes a lot. But I find it optimises the best
- PIXELRANGER0
Never touched either one & Think both are useless.
Photoshopi s all you need and all i've ever used.
- gekkokid0
i agree with sf2
- ericPowell0
i am in the middle of a gig doing about 60 banners for a client. i am using image ready to animate and i am really seeing its shortcomings. i am thinking of giving fireworks a try, image ready 7 was fine, cs (8) is a nightmare, so, thanks for the feedback :-)
- atomica0
Do you like the Macromedia style GUI or the Adobe style GUI, and how limited to do you want the features to be. Imageready is an optimization/animation supplement to photoshop (it comes bundled). Fireworks can be separate or part of the MX studio.... its all up to you. My vote goes to photoshop best of both worlds... and as pixel ranger said just about everything you can do in either, you can do in photoshop alone, and with more versatility.
- ribit0
except Image Ready has a better workflow than Photoshop for batch production for web stuff...