fireworks vs photoshop
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- 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.
dijitaq
(Dec 11 05, 18:40)are you on a mac?
jevad
(Dec 11 05, 19:13)yup. do you know how to get around that mess??
- 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?
- 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.
- jaymac440
fireworks is great for drop down menus
- 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...
- 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.
- fifty500
don't like fireworks and don't like when my colleagues do cause it makes sharing files (for work) that much more annoying.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- ceephax0
tbh i think fireworks is crap
- mowax0
agree w/what woolhouse said.
fire work = production work
- jaymac440
Front Page and Power Point are all you need
- foreign0
what woolhouse said.
- Bullitt0
I guess fireworks is alright, I've never really given it a chance.
- fate_0
My thing is, why have the bloated PS open when photoshop does the same simple operations at 1/5th the RAM space?
- 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
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.
- Jnr_Madison0
For web stuff and just messing about I use fireworks.
- canuck0
ps.