Correct, Photoshop was primarily built to correct and manipulate photography. You can guess what Photoshop was made for. Photoshop works kinda different – you can work with CMYK-Colours, high resolutions and file sizes bigger than 2GB (the biggest Fireworks *.png I’ve ever seen was 50MB) but with Photoshop this is not a problem. This is one of numerous reasons why you should never use Fireworks for print (I’ve tried it more than once). Each attempt to build something for print (like a flyer or a poster) will fail from the beginning – by default (this limitation can be bypassed) your documents cannot have a higher resolution than 6000×6000 pixels and after adding some objects to your canvas, Fireworks will become slower and slower until eventually, Fireworks will crash, of course. While inDesign was made only for print, Fireworks was made only for Web. Following the popularity of mobile devices like the Apple iPhone it is now often used to mock up and design user interfaces for apps. The right tool for the jobįireworks was made to build and export web graphics in an elegant way. Photshop” posts are completely taken out of context and what I think about the Pros and Cons of both Adobe products. In addition I will show you why most of these “Fireworks vs. I have never answered any of these mails due of a lack of time but now I’m going to tell you why I use Fireworks instead of Photoshop for interface design and why you could do too – or why you should continue to use Photoshop.
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Since I launched the website FireworksLab (a free resource page for Adobe Fireworks files) some weeks ago, I have received various mails from people looking for a reason why they should use Fireworks instead of Photoshop. In some cases this was just useless bashing of one product, whilst in other cases there were some good points regarding when and why to use one of these Applications rather than the other. During the last months and years we have seen countless posts on popular Blogs about which application is better – Fireworks or Photoshop.