> Once you are proficient in Photoshop, I have no desire to ever be proficient in photoshop, which is why I like Fireworks. It's easy for me, a programmer, to

> Once you are proficient in Photoshop, I have no desire to ever be proficient in photoshop, which is why I like Fireworks. It's easy for me, a programmer, to open it up, figure out how to do what I need to do, and then get back to working on whatever site I'm working on. I don't have half a day to spend trying to figure out how to change the white background to transparent because I want to introduce a background switcher to a website. I also don't want to have a designer do it either, not when I can open Fireworks and complete that task in 5 minutes. That's the power of Fireworks in my opinion - a graphics tool for non-designers.