Adobe Fireworks
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- zray0
Multiple pages within a single file, intelligent (9-slice) scaling for symbols, vector-centric tools, elliptical gradients, live filters, object rather than layer oriented workflow...
You can continue cutting your steak with a spoon but more designers than you think are using a better tool for the job.
- pascii0
freehand anyone?
- fiesta0
it would be nice if Adobe realised how widely used it was and stopped breaking it/making it worse/wasting time on Air and Flex integration bullshit.
- Jnr_Madison0
Fireworks is more widely used than you think. I don't understand why people get so upset about it. If you don't use it, then stop whining, some of us do.
- brianbrooks0
Fireworks is great - I didn't see the value of it at first either - but for making quick web mock-ups to present to clients - nothing beats it!
- osk0
- Photoshop for hardcore graphical awesomeness
- Fireworks for quick, concise web designing graphic action
Use the two together if you can and you'll reach a higher state of supreme being!
- fiesta0
Akiraprise, did you install the prerelease beta version of Fireworks that Adobe had on their site about 6 months before the release? If so that fucks up the licensing system and you need to run the CS4 cleaner script.
Then again Fireworks CS4 seriously is worthless, I mean what use is a program that keeps shifting your text around when you ungroup things or edit them. Stick with CS3 and hopefully Adobe will get the message they have to start putting more effort in if they are gonna charge that bullshit price
- Akiraprise0
fireworks is an amazing program, I use it for all my web-designing, I don't see why I need to use photoshop to design websites, when everything I want to do I can do much easier in fireworks.
Although Fireworks CS4 doesn't work in the office...or on either of my home imacs, what a stupid idea to release a program that wont open.
- monoboy0
I'd use it if supported all font formats. Deal breaker for me.
- fiesta0
Its pretty good at what it does, but stick with CS3 because CS4 has a text engine bug that renders the entire program useless (seen as you spend half of your time in it laying out text)
http://adobegripes.tumblr.com/po…
- Raniator0
November 5th?
- grafician0
@wademd: Seriously, are you a web designer? Or a designer at all? Take your frustrations elsewhere...
Fireworks is the best web design program available.
That being said, you can still make websites in Photoshop...Fireworks can be used for wireframing, designing quick mockups or full websites much easily than using Photoshop.
Plus it has full vector capabilities and it works wonderful with Flash and Illustrator.But hey, anyone is free to use whatever it wants...
- slappy0
Is there much that it does that photoshop doesn't do? I must admit Iv only used if for animated gifs.
- Terminal270
Another vote for Fireworks.
Using Photoshop for web is like using Illustrator for web.
It's just fucking dumb. :)
- stewart0
i have Fireworks because i can't open animated gifs in Photoshop CS3 to edit them. Photoshop is only good for creating some simple frame by frame animations.
- version30
fireworks pngs retain vector data, retain preset rounded corner sizes when free transforming boxes
- Anders0
You should start a blog about all this shit
- ETM0
Animated GIFs.