So I'm genuinely curious... why do some folks prefer Fireworks over
Photoshop? I ask this knowing most of the answers I think, but I want
to see or hear more opinions about aspects of certain features to get
a better understanding of what specifically makes Fireworks compelling
for some over Photoshop.
To reveal my bias early, I've always disliked Fireworks for two very
specific reasons: I hate the way it handled type, and there were layer/
grouping flaws it had that drove me bonkers. I'm not even going to
claim Photoshop or Illustrator's handling of type is remotely correct
for screen display design, but they both have print legacies that
always get in the way, but having used them for so long, it was always
the devil you know versus the devil you don't for me personally in
this regard. I also know Photoshop's handling of object art is less
than stellar, but Fireworks still had layer and grouping flaws
Fireworks for so long that drove me nuts, I simply could never get
past them for day to day grunt work.
It appears most of the things I disliked about Fireworks have been
finally fixed in CS4. Only problem now? Well... I've been largely
quiet with regard to CS4 but I'll say it openly now that I seriously
want to throttle the dev and design team over Adobe for completely
effing up the framework interface. And since they bought the farm on
making it across the board, Fireworks now shares the same buggy
redraw, crappy windowing and inelegant docking and palette layout
behaviors that are plaguing the entire creative suite now. So my
chance to finally give Fireworks a real run after they fixed my core
problems that were getting my way is going to have to wait until the
CS team gets on the ball and brings the quality back online to what it
used be for Adobe.
In the meantime though... I've been wanting to be convinced that
Fireworks wasn't just another Denaba Canvas or Studio/8 wannabe. So...
if you have a moment to share, I'd love to hear more on the whole
Photoshop+Illustrator versus Fireworks thing.
--
Andrei Herasimchuk
Chief Design Officer, Involution Studios
innovating the digital world
e. and...@involutionstudios.com
c. +1 408 306 6422
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