Re: What you'd like to see in the upcoming Flash 3 book...

[Dorian Nisinson]

As an additonal recommendation of Fireworks, I had a recent project

where the type and design (site wide) were set and the actual words

changed about twenty times. If I had had to redo them from freehand to

photoshop and then to my html pages, I would have shot my client (well

not really shot him. Maybe just yelled real loud and upped the fee) With

Fireworks, I just redid the text without changing my type styling,

reapplied the export settings and everything was already placed and

ready to go.

	For that alone, Fireworks has earned its place in my toolbox. And this

way, I didn't harm an indecisive but generally decent client.


Dorian


John Dowdell wrote:

> 

> At 4:13 AM 7/15/98, Carrie Dailey wrote, of Fireworks:

> >WHY ELSE would I want it ??  I doubt that it will address my other needs any

> >better than Photoshop 5.  The ability to create vector images and export

> >them to Flash would have been my main motivation.  I really cannot

> >comprehend that MM did not make this possible!!

> 

> Fireworks was intended for tasks other than a curve-creation tool for Flash.

> 

> If you wish a curve-creation tool, use FreeHand or some other drawing tool

> -- FreeHand lets you mirror, envelope, fractalize, simplify, very coolly

> autotrace, use graphic search'n'replace, kern to the bone, do text-on-path,

> much much more. FreeHand is superlative as a curve-creation tool.

> 

> But Fireworks and Flash can use FreeHand as their intense curve-creation tool.

> 

> Flash goes out to clean, crisp, animated vectors. Fireworks goes out as

> rich, funky pixels.

> 

> Try it: produce some graphics in Fireworks, then consider how you'd use

> those brushstrokes and textures in Flash. Vectors can't efficiently

> describe that type of information.

> 

> Why use Fireworks rather than Photoshop 5? They actually serve different

> purposes. Photoshop remains the definitive photo-processing tool. If you're

> scanning, nothing matches Photoshop's color management, its masking, and

> other image-prepping abilities.

> 

> Advantages Fireworks has over Photoshop 5:

> 

> --  Good kerning

> --  Text-on-path

> --  Typography and layout abilities

> --  Good brushstrokes (make that *great* brushstrokes!)

> --  Everything editable, all the time

> --  Everything editable, all the time

> --  Animation

> --  Image-slicing

> --  Compression

> --  Imagemaps

> --  JavaScript rollovers

> --  HTML production for image tables

> --  Everything editable, all the time

> 

> Summary: Fireworks-without-Flash is not quite fish-without-bicycle, but

> close. FreeHand helps with complex curves for Fireworks, Flash, Photoshop,

> other tools. Photoshop is great for photos. Fireworks thinks "web graphics"

> from start to finish.

> 

> Tip: Try Fireworks. If you create pixel-based graphics, it's very cool.

> 

> jd

> 

> John Dowdell, Macromedia Tech Support, San Francisco CA US

> 

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