[thelist] Migrating from Photoshop to Fireworks
Max Schwanekamp
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Wed Jan 24 15:48:11 CST 2007
Barney Carroll wrote:
> Is Fireworks all that hot? I remember playing around with it a couple of
> years ago and thought it was kind of cute but ultimately not all that
> useful.
> I mean, if you know Photoshop back to front and hand code from scratch
> by default, is it a valuable everyday tool?
Photoshop is the everything-and-the-kitchen-sink editor, while Fireworks
is more like ImageReady's badass older cousin, geared strictly for web
graphics. IIRC (haven't played with it since v7) a huge percentage of
Photoshop's features are irrelevant to web graphics. Also, FW's
features manage to successfully span vector & raster images and
animation and various effects. So yeah, IMHO FW is pretty hot. That
said, if you know Photoshop back to front, maybe it's not worth your
time to learn a new tool.
Ah, and as I type this here's Tim's post about Adobe's plans with FW &
IR. Cool.
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Max Schwanekamp
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