What is the purpose of Fireworks?

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akphotog
Nov 2, 2008
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I have been working in Photoshop for about 13 years. It is all about efficient workflow for me. So, what is the purpose of Fireworks and why would I disrupt my workflow to jump to a different program?

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John J
Nov 2, 2008
robert_b wrote:
I have been working in Photoshop for about 13 years. It is all about efficient workflow for me. So, what is the purpose of Fireworks and why would I disrupt my workflow to jump to a different program?

Fireworks was originally focused upon web graphics and was somewhat coupled to Dreamweaver which helped justify it in that regard. Frankly, I don’t like it, don’t need it, and now with Adobe owning the works, I suspect it will be phased out.
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akphotog
Nov 2, 2008
Ok…thanks for that affirmation…I just wanted to make sure I was not missing some miracle workflow solution.

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robert_b wrote:
I have been working in Photoshop for about 13 years. It is all about efficient workflow for me. So, what is the purpose of Fireworks and why would I disrupt my workflow to jump to a different program?

Fireworks was originally focused upon web graphics and was somewhat coupled to Dreamweaver which helped justify it in that regard. Frankly, I don’t like it, don’t need it, and now with Adobe owning the works, I suspect it will be phased out.
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MikeC
Nov 3, 2008
On Sun, 02 Nov 2008 09:05:40 -0800, robert_b wrote:

I have been working in Photoshop for about 13 years. It is all about efficient workflow for me. So, what is the purpose of Fireworks and why would I disrupt my workflow to jump to a different program?

Photoshop is primarily an editor of raster graphics (pixel based), whereas Fireworks is a vector graphics editor with the ability to also import raster graphics.

If you are comfortable using photoshop for web design then keep using it. However if you really want to improve your workflow, then switch to Fireworks for web design.
It is much faster and easier to use than photoshop.
I have been a user of photoshop since version 2 and fireworks since version 1. I keep them both as they really do have different purposes. And NO, fireworks is not going away, Adobe has cancelled image ready instead.

MikeC…
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jmskrohn
Sep 14, 2012
On Sunday, November 2, 2008 10:05:40 AM UTC-7, robert_b wrote:
I have been working in Photoshop for about 13 years. It is all about efficient workflow for me. So, what is the purpose of Fireworks and why would I disrupt my workflow to jump to a different program?

I’ve been working W/PS since ver 2. I think that, workflow is the key. I use Illustrator and an older version of Freehand for vector Graphics. (there are some uses that I use the freehand for Vector graphics) and Vector graphics seem to import into PhotoShop just fine. Adobe bought out Macromedia and they seem to want to be everything to everyone. After using PS for 20 years for video production, web and pretty much everything else the shortcuts are ingrained into my hand. I’m too old to learn something new as well as I use Photoshop. Jsut sayin’

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