Re: message for Macromedia....

[David Mendels]

At 09:13 AM 4/22/98 -0400, christian griffith wrote:

>Adobe will have a strong arm and they are already

>battling what they see as a "twinge" of competition by releasing ImageReady.

>There are a lot of Photoshop users that will love this for web because it

>integrates the "artist" into the web arena with tools he is comfortable

>with.  ....and IMHO, it is better than Fireworks so far.  Have you ever

>tried to re-size an image in fireworks? cropping?  ....no bueno.


I can resize images and crop in Fireworks...where are you having problems?

(This is actually not the right forum, but do join us in the Fireworks

newsgroup as well).


(bias alert on the following)


IMHO the comparison is hard to make.  ImageReady is a utility for

optimizing images and creating gif animations from Photoshop generated

work.  Fireworks is a complete tool for the creation *and* production of

graphics and gif animations/rollovers for the Web.


Try this in ImageReady.  Can you import Illustrator or FreeHand art and

edit it?  Or try this: Have a text block with multiple fonts or styles?  Or

try this: Put a drop shadow on some text.  Change the third word in the

sentence. Does the drop shadow recreate itself to the new text?  Or this:

create a multi-state button complete with Javascript? Or try also making

some real comparisons in the quality and final size of images or animations

compressed with an adaptive palette in each product...several users in the

news://forums.macromedia.com/macromedia.fireworks have done this comparison

and so far (both products are *beta*) the output from Fireworks seems to be

favored.


Anyway, thanks for the support of the open Flash format annoucement...


-David

Macromedia

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David Mendels                               

Vice President and co-General Manager, 

Graphics Business, Internet and Multimedia Business, Macromedia

                     

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