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Not just flash, I'm a die-hard fireworks user and was still using it up until a few years ago, much better than PS for quick web stuff (99% of what I was doing)
by lsmarigo 9y ago
Not just flash, I'm a die-hard fireworks user and was still using it up until a few years ago, much better than PS for quick web stuff (99% of what I was doing). Was a sad day for consumers when Adobe bough them out, before they had to compete with improvements and new features for market share. I still use Adobe Fireworks regularly over Photoshop.
- devdoomari 9y agohow does adobe fireworks compare to adobe illustrator?
- lsmarigo 9y agodifferent use cases, illustrator is better for heavy vector based stuff like logo design but for quick/fast hack jobs fireworks is best.
- DaiPlusPlus 9y agoAre you thinking of Macromedia FreeHand? FreeHand was a vector art editor to compete with Adobe Illustrator. Macromedia Fireworks was a raster editor like Photoshop, but was heavily geared towards "web graphics" (think: Adobe ImageReady). It had neat features such as text templating, integation with Dreamweaver, and decent sub-pixel positioning. I used it from 2001 until 2005. I felt it was primarily for making websites using now-obsolete techniques like tables-for-layout, spacer.gif, and using heavily manually-optimized graphics and techniques to achieve effects that CSS was not yet capable of. I may be wrong, but I don't believe Fireworks changed much since the Adobe acquisition, ensuring its declining relevance in the post-CSS3 web world.
- virtualwhys 9y agoI've got an ancient Windows 2003 server VM that I keep around just for Fireworks. Not sure about PS, but even this circa 2001 version of Fireworks blows Gimp out of the water in terms of ease of use and basic image manipulations.
- lsmarigo 9y agohaha that's awesome, there must be dozens of us! Totally agreed to this day nothing is better UI/efficiency. Photoshop has extra steps built in for some reason that slow you down.