[thelist] Image ready 3 on mac waaaaay slow?
Erika Meyer
meyer at up.edu
Wed Jan 17 16:21:31 CST 2001
I tend to like Macromedia products also, if only because they are geared
toward web designers. I'm fond of the Freehand/Fireworks/Flash combo.
But I have noticed when working with text (say for a title header) -- I can
always get a cleaner, smoother-edged gif thru Photoshop than thru
Fireworks. I'm not sure why that is (antialiasing options, maybe) but it
is. And that makes a difference to me.
I find myself using both Photoshop/ImageReady and Fireworks, for various
reasons. It's handy to have the png files at hand, as kind of a middleman
between raster & vector land. (I'm a graphics hacker so I don't know what
I'm talking about, just what works for me.) I made a flash movie recently
& found myself moving files from Photoshop thru Fireworks, then into Flash.
I do that kind of stuff a lot. Fireworks stroke effects can also be
fun. But I'd never give up Photoshop.
Erika
At 11:30 AM 1/17/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Hey guys, it's time for me to interject. Macromedia Fireworks blows both
>Photoshop & Image Ready away and keeps getting better. I've worked on both
>Mac & PC platforms using versions 1.0-4.0 and have never had any trouble
>with it. The images are sliced and optimized perfectly and they even have a
>cool wizard for specifying file size.
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