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Adobe is going to kill Fireworks

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Re: Adobe is going to kill Fireworks

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Post by dinosaurs »

pqdbr wrote: post #6

I can't believe this. Photoshop is not meant for web design, we only have Fireworks for the task. A simple task like selecting a layer in Photoshop makes me want to cry.

I fully agree. As a front-end developer, working with Fireworks is a breeze, it's fun. Slicing designs, exporting sprites and measuring elements is all done easily and in a very user-friendly manner. The few sites I have developed from a Photoshop design have always caused trouble, because Photoshop is simply not made for the task.

Re: Adobe is going to kill Fireworks

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Post by mmariani »

This made me realize how much I miss Freehand which was way better and easier then AI. Now Adobe kills another superior piece of software made by Macromedia. On the other hand, Flash still lives strong.

Go figure.

Re: Adobe is going to kill Fireworks

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Post by quink »

pqdbr wrote: post #6

I can't believe this. Photoshop is not meant for web design, we only have Fireworks for the task. A simple task like selecting a layer in Photoshop makes me want to cry.

Gradients in Fireworks are so very simple. With opacity and all. With barely a click more than you need, and insanely obvious to even beginners. In Photoshop I have no idea where to start.

Re: Adobe is going to kill Fireworks

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Post by colemorrison »

nhangen wrote: post #37

Fireworks is the only Adobe product I use religiously. I never understood why it didn't take off with the web design world. I believe it to be the most intuitive of the bunch. Simple things like copy/paste work like they should, and whereas PS might be more robust, it takes 2-3x more clicks to achieve what FW can do in just a few.

yes yes yes. I can't believe this at all...

Re: Adobe is going to kill Fireworks

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Post by BaconJuice »

PixelCut wrote: post #35

Our new vector drawing app, WebCode, is a nice replacement for Fireworks: http://www.webcodeapp.com/ It generates CSS, JavaScript+Canvas and SVG code from your drawings in real time and can also import PSD documents. The generated code works great on both Retina and non-Retina displays. You can even preview how your drawings would look on Retina displays directly in WebCode. It inherited a lot of things from PaintCod…

where is the windows version?

Re: Adobe is going to kill Fireworks

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Post by colemorrison »

quink wrote: post #10

The perfect combination of vector and bitmap editing. I love Fireworks. My guess is that Adobe just couldn't figure out how to make it better. It was already pretty much all it needed to be by about Fireworks MX. And it remains, to this day, a very different codebase. User-friendly but quite powerful behind the scenes. I could never get the hang of Photoshop or Illustrator. Sure, Photoshop may have features or Illust…

Yes, it will be a very sad day. That program has been my bread and butter for so damn long. Photoshop and Illustrator can't even remotely compare to the power of fireworks when it comes to prototyping.

Re: Adobe is going to kill Fireworks

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Post by bede »

I don't think this comes as a huge surprise to many. There were big hopes for Fireworks after the buyout that never materialised, and while it has seen steady — albeit minor —iteration since, it never ended up inheriting the Photoshop features that I for one hoped it would.

In stark contrast to PS, FW is one of a select few pieces of Adobe creative software that always 'just worked' as I expected. It is a remarkably intuitive tool for many tasks, and it'll be a shame to see it go.

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