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I still use Fireworks sometimes. I wish it was brought back - was really fantastic for UI mockup, quick photoshopping and basic vector editing.

by Lorin 3y ago

quink 3y ago
The death of Fireworks made me much much better at CSS, SVG, and HTML. Because just doing it in those technologies is often just as fast if not more productive than doing a mock-up in XD or Photoshop or Illustrator. I’ll use a vector editor to edit shapes, and Photoshop for anything photographic or that client-side filters can’t handle but that’s about it. So in a way I’m grateful for Adobe killing Fireworks and making the alternatives so unpalatable.
- dylan604 3y ago
  >The death of Fireworks made me much much better at CSS, SVG, and HTML. I barely used Fireworks, but primarily for the slicing of images into tables that was all the rage. I did use Dreamweaver and the Adobe app whose name is eluding me. One day I actually looked at the HTML/CSS from those apps, and it was not human readable at all. From that day forward, I started moving away from those apps and just wrote it by hand. So much less bloat. But I will admit, they were most definitely a nice set of training wheels to start the learning process.
  - joahua 3y ago
    Yes! Do people still use it for EDMs? Or did responsive email kill this use case too?
  - giantrobot 3y ago
    > Adobe app whose name is eluding me GoLive? PageMill?
mesh 3y ago
Of all of the software EOLed by Macromedia / Adobe, this is the one I probably hear the most from people wanting it to come back. (I worked for Macromedia, work for Adobe).
- da02 3y ago
  I thought I was the only one who longed for Fireworks. Is there anything that comes close to it nowadays? It was so intuitive. (Also, thank you for your service to the graphics industry.)
- grishka 3y ago
  Why doesn't Adobe open-source their dead software? They don't have anything to gain from it anyway.
  - marcomourao 3y ago
    It could result in a competing product and give users another option/reason to ditch Adobe products.
    - grishka 3y ago
      Yes, but those products are already dead with no plans to bring them back.
da02 3y ago
How can I obtain a PC copy? All the copies on eBay are mostly Mac.
- haunter 3y ago
  https://archive.org/details/studio-mx-2004 https://archive.org/details/studio-mx-2004 Adobe shutdown the activation servers so they just work now with universal keys (same as the CS2). EOL, they don’t care
  - da02 3y ago
    This is incredible. I didn't think such a thing would be possible. Thank you for telling me.

I still use Fireworks sometimes. I wish it was brought back - was really fantastic for UI mockup, quick photoshopping and basic vector editing.

by Lorin 3y ago

I still use Fireworks sometimes. I wish it was brought back - was really fantastic for UI mockup, quick photoshopping and basic vector editing.

quink 3y ago

The death of Fireworks made me much much better at CSS, SVG, and HTML. Because just doing it in those technologies is often just as fast if not more productive than doing a mock-up in XD or Photoshop or Illustrator. I’ll use a vector editor to edit shapes, and Photoshop for anything photographic or that client-side filters can’t handle but that’s about it. So in a way I’m grateful for Adobe killing Fireworks and making the alternatives so unpalatable.

dylan604 3y ago
>The death of Fireworks made me much much better at CSS, SVG, and HTML. I barely used Fireworks, but primarily for the slicing of images into tables that was all the rage. I did use Dreamweaver and the Adobe app whose name is eluding me. One day I actually looked at the HTML/CSS from those apps, and it was not human readable at all. From that day forward, I started moving away from those apps and just wrote it by hand. So much less bloat. But I will admit, they were most definitely a nice set of training wheels to start the learning process.
- joahua 3y ago
  Yes! Do people still use it for EDMs? Or did responsive email kill this use case too?
- giantrobot 3y ago
  > Adobe app whose name is eluding me GoLive? PageMill?

mesh 3y ago

Of all of the software EOLed by Macromedia / Adobe, this is the one I probably hear the most from people wanting it to come back. (I worked for Macromedia, work for Adobe).

da02 3y ago
I thought I was the only one who longed for Fireworks. Is there anything that comes close to it nowadays? It was so intuitive. (Also, thank you for your service to the graphics industry.)
grishka 3y ago
Why doesn't Adobe open-source their dead software? They don't have anything to gain from it anyway.
- marcomourao 3y ago
  It could result in a competing product and give users another option/reason to ditch Adobe products.
  - grishka 3y ago
    Yes, but those products are already dead with no plans to bring them back.

da02 3y ago

How can I obtain a PC copy? All the copies on eBay are mostly Mac.

haunter 3y ago
https://archive.org/details/studio-mx-2004 https://archive.org/details/studio-mx-2004 Adobe shutdown the activation servers so they just work now with universal keys (same as the CS2). EOL, they don’t care
- da02 3y ago
  This is incredible. I didn't think such a thing would be possible. Thank you for telling me.