Adobe Fireworks CS3, Photoshops lesser used and lesser known little brother. Its far cheaper, easier to learn and reasonably light weight. But, can it be as powerful? Of course, it can. Just like Photoshop the volume of extensions available are extensive, and with the correct extensions can be almost as powerful.
A Complete Getting-Started Toolbox
Why Use Adobe Fireworks?
Despite sometimes feeling like the un-loved, adopted child to the Adobe Creative Suite family, Fireworks remains for a lot of professional web and user interface designers to be the most useful, productive tool in their arsenal, however due to the vast popularity of a certain other graphics application in the creative suite, it doesn’t gain anywhere near the recognition it deserves for what it does best.
Fireworks was designed for rapid prototyping, layout and interface design, and it really shows when you start using it. Menial tasks that can take minutes to perform in Photoshop, take just seconds in Fireworks, and it isn’t just about saving time either, as Fireworks is an incredibly powerful graphics application, and with some experience there is very little you can do Photoshop that you can't do in Fireworks just as well.
This guide shouldn’t be seen as a dig at Photoshop though, it is simply here to assist designers who want to start taking advantage of the time-saving, efficient features that Fireworks has to offer. So why not give that yellow “Fw” icon a click and see if you can learn something new, and potentially save a large chunk of time in your daily workflow?
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