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

[Carrie Dailey]

Well....<gulp>

Slightly MORE of a reply than I anticipated...enough to prompt me to TRY

Fireworks.....not enough to get me to shell out more dough for Freehand.  :)




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> Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 1998 3:27 PM

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> Subject: RE: What you'd like to see in the upcoming Flash 3 book...

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> 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

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

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