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Adobe Fireworks

Adobe Fireworks (often known as "FW" for short) is a desktop application for editing bitmaps and vector graphics. The program, which is aimed at web designers, was originally developed by Macromedia (who were purchased by and merged into Adobe Systems Incorporated in December 2005), and interoperates particularly well with other former Macromedia products such as Adobe Dreamweaver and Adobe Flash. Versions of the Adobe Fireworks are available for both the Microsoft Windows operating system and Apple Macintosh computers.

It would probably be fair to say that Fireworks is more orientated towards vector editing than towards editing bitmaps. As a result many users find that Fireworks is most effective when used in combination with a program with more powerful bitmap editing features such as Adobe Photoshop. The advantage of course of working with vectors, is that they can be resized with no loss of quality, whereas bitmaps tend to become either blurred or chunky ("jaggies") if rescaled.

One of the best things about Adobe Fireworks is that it incorporates a number of nice features that make it very easy to work with. For example, menus can be docked, collapsed and expanded within the Fireworks environment, allowing you to set up a clean and uncluttered workspace customized to match your own personal preferences. Likewise, the toolbar incorporates a variety of functions logically organized together - for example, related tools can be found on a submenu accessible by holding down the mouse pointer over a particular toolbar button.

Finally, as well as a flexible and logical user interface, Fireworks incorporates many powerful editing features. These include lightening and darkening tools, selection and rescaling tools, and the ability to slice and crop your designs.

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Adobe Fireworks CS3

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Released: 2007-04-20
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Adobe Fireworks CS3 accelerates Web design and development. It's the ideal tool for creating and optimizing images & rapidly prototyping websites and Web applications. Fireworks CS3 offers the flexibility to edit both vector and bitmap images, a common library of prebuilt assets, and timesaving integration with Adobe tools. Rapid prototyping for interactive layouts and rich Internet applications New Pages panel contains slices, layers, frames, animations, and canvas settings - offering multipage support Organize and manage your prototypes with a new hierarchical layer structure Apply lighting effects, shadow effects, styles, blend modes - add depth and character to text and symbols Work with a common library of graphic symbols, text symbols, and animations for frequent use in Web applications, forms, interfaces and sites Intelligent scaling - 9-slice scaling for buttons & graphic symbols; combine with the new Auto Shape library to accelerate website and application prototyping Streamlined Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Bridge and Adobe Flash integration

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