Comments on: Whats Better For Designing A Website, Photoshop Or Fireworks?

By: jcubic

jcubic — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 12:58:15 +0000

I use Inkscape, it’s free and open source and it run on GNU/Linux without windows emulator.

By: Samejima

Samejima — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:46:43 +0000

I use firworks for Web graphics and design while photoshop for print graphics since it has CMYK mode aside from RGB mode. Just recently learned photoshop and the interface isn’t really that hard or confusing (as I thought before) now since I’m already familiar with fireworks which has a bit similarity with ps. all in all, both are great.

By: Misael

Misael — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:05:32 +0000

I prefer Fireworks, but probably just because my photoshop skills aren’t what they should be

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:52:09 +0000

I use Photoshop only because it’s what I’ve always used and Fireworks is based off of Macromedia’s original interface. Certain things are now a pain in the butt in PS though ever since they got rid of ImageReady. I personally wish they would have kept ImageReady.

By: Bill Phillips Jr

Bill Phillips Jr — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 03:08:02 +0000

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By: Mimi Flynn

Mimi Flynn — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:03:05 +0000

I used both for different things. Photoshop is great for, well, photos and other raster images, but fireworks is really great with vector images pulled in from illustrator. When I’m cutting images while coding, I prefer to use Fireworks because I can select and copy by just pointing and clicking on the images instead of digging through the layers. Fireworks has a great batch processing option too.

Overall, though, I believe its personal preference. When designing, its really best to use the tool you’re most comfortable with… but, when coding, I would suggest exporting from Fireworks. Its just easy…

By: Darren McPherson

Darren McPherson — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:02:50 +0000

It’s personal preference. For web ui’s both do the same thing.

Fireworks was rebuilt for web design and Photoshop is a more powerful all purpose app. kind of like using a nuke to kill a fly.

but like i say, its preference… best designer i know uses Fireworks.

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By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:39:09 +0000

Always found both to be very very similar, so much so, that i have never understood why Adobe haven’t just merged the 2 together.

Personal choice for me would be Photoshop.

By: Gareth Thompson

Gareth Thompson — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:14:40 +0000

I personally use fireworks for 99% of my projects, however i’m starting to use pixelmator more as well, which is a much better (and cheaper) alternative to PS.