3 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
 Not a Photoshop or Paintshop Pro wanna be!, 2002-01-23
Fireworks 4 is not a Photoshop wanna be. It's sole purpose is the design,layout and implementation of fantastic websites. Fireworks is better suited than photoshop for web graphics. Why, you ask? because it uses vector graphics to maitain editablity for all time. This means if a client does not like a color or font style, you can use Firework's find and replace to update your enitre set of files! Fireworks also allows you to save buttons you create in a library that can be used over and over.
You want to use Photoshop along side Fireworks to do any bitmap editing. Firworks does have a nice set of bitmap tools, but let Photoshop handle your serious photographic work. In closing, remember: Photoshop is a BITMAP editor. It does not allow you the same FLEXABILITY as Fireworks will. Fireworks 4 is BOTH a bitmap & vector program. So when it comes to creating the best looking websites in the least amount of time, look no further!
Phenomenal, 2001-12-31
Truly an excellent piece of brainpower. Macromedia is king. Since Adobe's bugged Illustrator, crappy version of LiveMotion, and worthless Photoshop updates are withering, expect Macromedia to have an almost monopoly-like view on all of it's great products.
1 of 1 customers found the following review helpful:
 Cookie cutter, 2001-11-29
This is a big disappointment, because its exactly like competing products out there like Paint Shop Pro 7.0 and the Adobe Photo Shop. Same fuctions, same filters, effects and layer function. However this software is much cheaper than Adobe Photo Shop so that might be a good thing. The only useful function I have found that sets Fireworks apart from competing products is its integration into Macromedia Dreamweaver (an HTML editor). With such great innovations as a very easy batch editor, that lets you select whole directory and edit the size, the brightness, and file type of the output images. Very useful for people with picture websites.
1 of 1 customers found the following review helpful:
Quick, Easy and Fun, 2001-11-26
I recently purchased Fireworks to design our company webpage. I had been trying to use Frontpage, but that was not going well (I haven't been able to produce any quality pages with FrontPage, and I don't want to invest the time to learn how). Fireworks is very easy to learn, especially if you have used Photoshop and Illustrator (you can use the same shortcut keys from Photoshop). It works pretty much like Photoshop and Illustrator rolled up in one package (although it can't do everything those programs do). So far it's taken me a few days to go through the tutorial, lessons, and read the manual, and I've already got several cool web page designs up and ready to go. I was quite satisfied with the product and will use it for all my web work now (with help from Photoshop and Illustrator for some cooler photo and graphics effects). All in all, an excellent product. Oh, and I'm by no means an expert user of these programs, so don't be afraid if you haven't done too much web work in the past.
SoftwareBomber - 269.00, 2001-11-23
Great Product - 269 at SoftwareBomber
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