I've been designing web sites for almost a decade using Illustrator &
Photoshop. Why should I use Fireworks? The promo copy reads: "the ideal tool
for creating and optimizing images for the web and rapidly prototyping
websites."

Doesn't Photoshop already optimize my images for the web? What am I missing?
What is "prototyping"?

This is a sincere question. I'm just trying to understand what this product is
and what it does. Thanks for any replies.

Max

maxsewell wrote:
> I've been designing web sites for almost a decade using Illustrator &
> Photoshop. Why should I use Fireworks? The promo copy reads: "the ideal tool
> for creating and optimizing images for the web and rapidly prototyping
> websites."
>
> Doesn't Photoshop already optimize my images for the web? What am I missing?
> What is "prototyping"?
>
> This is a sincere question. I'm just trying to understand what this product is
> and what it does. Thanks for any replies.
>
> Max
>

Max,

Here is a link to an article that should answer your question on the
differences between Photoshop and Fireworks.

http://tinyurl.com/qp4rm

SKB

Perfect! Thank you very much.

Max

maxsewell wrote:
> Perfect! Thank you very much.

Keep in mind that I wrote that article well over 2 years ago and that,
since then, ImageReady was discontinued and Fireworks itself has evolved
further (it didn't have multiple pages then for example). I started
writing a "revisited" version of the article but it seems I never have
time to finish it... ;-/

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