Macromedia Fireworks 3

Fireworks is an excellent product for creating Logos, Banners and GIF Animations. It is not a very simple program to use initially, but after a few days of learning you soon get the hang of it. I have now created all of the Logo's, Banners and Animated Images for my web-sites using this product. I used to use Paintshop Pro, but I now use Fireworks all the time, the main reason for this is the export wizard which allows you to export your images in many different formats and a preview is displayed showing the different formats. Also the ability to create animations in the same program is great (without having to startup a seperate program to do the animations). I ...  Read the complete review

Ordering Dreamweaver 3 I saw the Studio upgrade option including a program called Firworks, it said it was a image editer designed for the web. Lets give it a go I thought. Paid for the £149 upgrade and haven't looked back since. Fireworks 3 is without a doubt the best web graphic editer on the market (until V4 comes out). After using many other packages to make web grapgics the intiutive interface of Fireworks come as some sort of dream. Whether you are making ani gifs or compressing your jpegs Fireworks does it fast, clean and easy. If that wasn't enough it write it's own HTML for advanced javascript rollerovers and and navagation systems, ...  Read the complete review

This is a program created for webdesign! and let me tell you it is fantastic at what it does. I would have to tell you that this is one of my main tools for webdesign and it is so easy to use and powerfull to. Maybe not as powerfull as Photoshop though it is for a totally different media and so the people who compare these really need to remember that! Fireworks is made for working on site design and so you will generally work at 72dpi and with Photoshop you work at around 300dpi! (see the difference?). Anyway you would be mad to miss out on this program considering its low cost, and it is sooooo very useful! ...  Read the complete review

We went from PaintShopPro to FireWorks and what a shock that was! FireWorks has to be one of the best graphics programs you can get, we use it in conjunction with DreamWeaver but if there was anything we couldnt be without, FireWorks is it. Everything from groovy button and backgrounds, to the complete navigation bar, animations, distortions, absolutely amazing text and image effects... you name it, its got it. The bad side is you cant just jump in and get it right first time, or second or third for that matter, the instruction manual is a definite must. But once you get the hang of it, you are onto a winner. Oh yes , and the price isnt exactly user ...  Read the complete review

Just like the rest of Macromedia's products this one is truly web enabled. The perfect utility to help you make your rich media site. The biggest advantage of using this type of software compared to others such as paint shop or photoshop is that it has automatic antialiasing meaning that even the smallest speck or curvacious bezier is free from jagged lines and distortion. A predominantly vector based package, this wioll enhance your website no end and the results, even with limited time input, will look stunning. An example of the type of graphics this package can produce is the eye catching "napster" logo. I know a few friends ...  Read the complete review