Switching from Photoshop to Fireworks
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- Guss
My team wants to make a switch from Photoshop to Fireworks. I don't know what it is, but I really hate designing in Fireworks.
Any good examples of why NOT to switch to Fireworks?
- doublespaced0
Best example: Photoshop
- ********0
Fireworks works on the iPad
- honestly0
i've never heard arguments for ps over fireworks (i assume because of its popularity no one into ps ventures out) but i have heard several arguments for fireworks over ps, one of which being rounded corners
- lambsy0
fireworks for life™
i cringe everytime i have to open up photoshop now. it's that bad.
- I cringe everytime I read your sentence!CodenameAM
- i used to be like you. you have no idea what FW is capable of.lambsy
- I use it everyday at work, and everytime I want to design something I open Photoshop ;o)CodenameAM
- Josev0
Why do you hate designing in it?
- honestly0
i can't design with a pen, i can only use a pencil...
- mightyj0
they both have strengths and weaknesses and they really are not suppose to replace each other. I use both plus illy.
- acescence0
fireworks can open an animated gif, so it's got that going for it.
- so can pshonestly
- import video frames to layers
type *.* in file name field
press "load"
select gifhonestly - ah yes, I read this somewhere. confusing since there is no filename field when i select that?acescence
- according to the interwebs this only works on windows, import dialog is different on macacescence
- ********0
image ready 7 is making a come back!
- hilchev0
what's next, Director?
- akrok0
what kind of monkey business are they running?
- Pumpkin_baby0
Fireworks creates the best web ready images.
Transparent images come out really clean and seamless in Fireworks, whereas photoshop tends to get choppy with transparency.
I don't think that Fireworks can replace the multifaceted PS though. For Raw camera files and adjustments it's an indispensable tool.
The two should work together not against each other.
- RAW = Lightroomhonestly
- PS is best for color correcting and effects + retouching. that's about it. FW is best for design.lambsy
- transparency in photoshop can be flawless.. as the internet meme goes.. 'you're doing it wrong'Hench
- Why would you design in photoshop or fireworks?Pumpkin_baby
- FW is best for web design. what do you use?lambsy
- pen and paper, then a mix of illustrator and fireworks.Pumpkin_baby
- than that answers your question. thank you come again.lambsy
- I don't design in Fireworks, I optimize for web.Pumpkin_baby
- I've found new information on Fireworks, I've been enlightened. Thanks!Pumpkin_baby
- Fireworks is for the technical minded, Photoshop is for those who want to create and craft!CodenameAM
- ********0
After 12+ years of using Photoshop, I cringed to learn Fireworks from the ground up. After about a year of using Fireworks full-time, I could never switch back for web work.
- akrok0
what will you do if the freelancer sends the file as PSD?
- http://provideocoali…honestly
- hahahaakrok
- Open it in FW... no problemOBBTKN
- Mr_Right0
Great, now I need to learn Fireworks.
Note to self: Start "RIP Photoshop" thread.
- CodenameAM0
I have never understood this, they are completely different in so many ways. I used to work at an agency and used Photoshop all the time. I then went and joined a Corporate company as an inhouse designer and had to used Fireworks.
My views of Fireworks have changed massively and it can be very quick at doing certain things, but it will never be Photoshop and for me, I would never design a website in Firework as I just don't think it has the crafting and detail levels needed to make great design.
Also, having friends at Adobe, I think Fireworks will soon be heading to the Pearly gate of application heaven and Photoshop will carry some of it's weight.
- < what he says. Agree completely. Bye bye Fireworks. It'll all be integrated into PS.fyoucher1
- uan0
look at it like this: fw is bitmap AND vector in the same app! if it's for web/screen only, you will be fine.
- monNom0
best reason not to use fireworks: it's just like designing in flash.
- MSTRPLN0
Like the team of people that put a website layout together in illustrator so that it could "scale if needed"