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(More customer reviews)I have used Adobe Photoshop for more than ten years, first for pre-press layout and design, and then for Web graphics starting in the mid-1990s. Back then, Photoshop was primarily a pre-press tool, and best for manipulating photographs. To make an image Web-ready, one had to use a separate utility or plug-in. Over the years, things improved. The current version of Photoshop, 5.5, is as much as Web tool as it is software for pre-press.
When it was time to upgrade Macromedia Dreamweaver from version 2 to version 3, we purchased the "studio" upgrade that included Fireworks. I had seen a demo of Fireworks at a trade show, and was impressed enough to give it serious consideration, at least for specialized tasks such as creating complex Web page layouts and animations.
That was five months ago. Photoshop and Fireworks are both installed on my computer, but I now use Fireworks for Web graphics about 80% of the time.
Fireworks was designed from the ground-up as a Web design tool. Macromedia has obviously looked at competing Web graphics programs and adopted existing "best practice" in its software. The result is a tool with amazing range.
Fireworks facilitates a number of Web design processes that I had been using in Photoshop. For example, for more complex designs I would often do the entire layout in Photoshop, then slice the image up and dump the pieces into my HTML editor. To make this common practice easier, Fireworks has a slice tool and a Web layer; slices can be exported as individual graphics with accompanying HTML. Fireworks shines in a number of other areas as well: JavaScript rollovers, GIF animation, graphics optimization, object effects, and vector graphics.
For beginners, Fireworks has a number of features to make graphic creation easier: the Button Editor makes creating rollovers quite easy, and the Style panel allows the creation and reuse of graphic characteristics.
Fireworks is a great tool, and I recommend it.
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Fireworks 3 brings efficiency to Web graphics production. Quickly create buttons, animations, and page comps. Everything remains editable, including files from leading graphics applications. Save production time with the History panel, step-by-step button maker, and the Library. Integrate Fireworks code seamlessly into Dreamweaver and other leading HTML editors. Only Fireworks lets you script the entire application to automate workflow.
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