Macromedia Fireworks 3

Macromedia Fireworks 3: Almost as Good as bonfire night! (188 words)
by - written on 27.10.00
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What a great program - in my eyes Macromedia can do no wrong! This graphics package I received as part of the Dreamweaver 3 Suite, and it is the perfect companian to a perfect HTML program! Fireworks 3, runs along the same lines a the infamous Paint Shop Pro and the devine Adobe Photoshop (which is incidentally my favourite graphics package of all time!) providing quick and easy graphics editing to JPEGs GIFs and the new(ish) PNG format (pixelated net graphic) and others such as TIFFs and WMFs. It provides all the features that you would expect imcluding the new ImageMap feature. You can open an image, draw an image map over the top and Fireworks will ...

Excellent for Web Images and Animations (167 words)
by liveland - written on 04.10.00 (Very useful, 76 readings)
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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 ...

Macromedia Fireworks 3: Duh! Was I wrong. (167 words)
by sumo - written on 12.12.00 (Useful, 36 readings)
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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, ...