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April 19, 2005
Fireworks rocks my socks, long live fireworks!
I just read this article and the guy says;
"Fireworks will slowly disappear. Photoshop is Adobe's star, and the vector-orientation of Fireworks just doesn't mesh with Photoshop's workflow."
While it may not "mesh with Photoshop's workflow" it is an essential web tool. He also says; "If Adobe is the darling of art departments, Macromedia is the up-and-coming star of the IT set."
Up-and-coming? Um... I'm sorry but it has no competition. Where have you been the last 5 years?? Macromedia has been the one and ONLY top dog for multimedia designers and developers a like. Director had no competition, and when it did come (ehem flash) the company was competing with itself!! The only reason I ever even got heavy into Illustrator was for my typography class in school. I love Photoshop, don't get me wrong. But Photoshop was YEARS, and I mean YEARS behind with its ability for designing code driven sites. I was using Firework's slice'n'dice feature 5 years ago!
Fireworks and TopStyle are the only two tools I use on a daily basis. I really would cry if they merged it into PS. I would actually be completely happy with fireworks if its basic photo manipulation was a little bit better (levels...) but I would be very pissy if fireworks were merged into PS. At the worst, just open-source the damn thing so people can make install files for new OS updates..
Honestly Fireworks has been so good I haven’t even needed an upgrade. It does what it does, and it does it well. I know it's all speculation but I just have to put out my voice and say Viva La Fireworks!
In my mind Adobe is nearly non-existent (save PS) in the web world. I think Adobe should take on macromedia's model of being a part of the community, I think they should leave the product names alone, and continue to enhance on the features. Macromedia is WAY bigger in the web world then Adobe. It would be silly to mash up the whole macromedia line and re-brand it. It is in my mind, a hope that they won't re-invent the wheel and that's the purpose of the merger, to leverage.
After all, Wachovia was bought out, but most people didn't even realize it. They kept the Wachovia name, merged it a tad and kept going so as not to alienate customers. It was a smart move and it worked.
Posted by brandy
Comments
No argument from me there. Maybe the better solution is to combine Image Ready--which even PS users love to hate--with Fireworks. Make PS and FW interoperable, allow FW to use PS plug-ins and filters, but retain its vector core and life will be good. There's room for improvement in the FW interface, but I sure would hate to see a reliable tool put out to pasture before its time.
Kim
Posted by: Kim Cavanaugh at April 19, 2005 05:04 PM
Im with you, Fireworks is a killer app, make it open source!!!!
Posted by: Tim Madden at April 19, 2005 06:49 PM
I'll second that. I love Fireworks! It's fantastic for web work...and for optimizing files a PS user might send me ;-)
If Adobe is smart, they will study how people use the different tools that each company brings to the table and figure out how to make it easier for everyone in the overall workflow to work together, while still using the best tools for their particular task.
Posted by: Kristin at April 19, 2005 10:24 PM
yay!!!!! i too looooove fireworks. keep the dream alive!!
Posted by: msjackson at April 20, 2005 02:16 PM