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Unlike most here in this thread, I don't use FW for wireframing, prototyping or simple UI design. It's been our primary design for complete web/ui design tool for over a decade.
Let's hope Adobe comes to their senses.
"People were telling me about it," isn't a good enough source for me.
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.
Right-click to get a list of layers under your pointer. Or you can set a preference that click on an element automatically selects that layer in the layer palette. This makes you cry?
Or say you have grouped layers, and there's a semitransparent layer in one group, and a background in another group, and 20 groups in between those groups.
They're stupid, Fireworks is awesome. Most people using Photoshop don't know about Fireworks or think they 'should' use Photoshop, so they do. Even tho it's a pain in the ass.
Sad and a little bit worried about this. While I will still use Fireworks for years after it's death (assuming I can), I'm not so sure what the path is for designers like me who use Fireworks for complete web design. Unlike most here in this thread, I don't use FW for wireframing, prototyping or simple UI design. It's been our primary design for complete web/ui design tool for over a decade. Let's hope Adobe comes to…
I've been using Fireworks for years, back to Macromedia Fireworks 4. It's much better/faster than Photoshop for web design (rounded square corners come to mind). If you work on a Mac, consider Sketch by Bohemian Coding : http://www.bohemiancoding.com/sketch/ It's a great app, is updated very frequently and has come a very long way and could almost be seen as already superior to Fireworks CS6 in most ways.
Sketch looks nice, but seems like more of an Illustrator competitor than a Fireworks or PS replacement. Also, how does it handle PSD import. PSD is pretty much the standard for layered image sharing and FW opens PSD's near-perfectly.
It's more of a Fireworks or Illustrator replacement then a PS replacement. It doesn't come with all the lovely filters and stuff PS has. It also doesn't have the complexities of Illustrator. But if you are a web developer, it has some of the best tools for that specific development. Icon design, web design, buttons, etc. are all a snap to create.
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…
...but it's also buggy as hell! If you're a FW user, take PS or Illustrator for a spin and it will seem wind-fast and rock-solid in comparison. The FW codebase may be in need of a complete rewrite or hardcore refactoring considering how brittle the software feels and maybe Adobe doesn't want to have talented coders working on this, especially since PS is being slowly improved with webdev friendly features. But I really hope they change their mind ...FW is the only design tool with an UI that fits my workflow and bends around my mind instead of requiring my mind to bend around its quirks
Is there a real confirmation on this or is this all based on that tweet and the 7 responses below it? "People were telling me about it," isn't a good enough source for me.