Photoshop vs Fireworks

[lolage]

Which program for web use/signictare making?

 

[fail at the internets]

Photoshop definately, easier to use and has more features.

 

[Red and White]

Photoshop for me too

 

[DarkShadow]

Photoshop for me too

Aye, can't get along with fireworks, tis rubbish imo.

 

[furnace]

Fireworks is much more intuitive and it's faster to get things done. That's what I find, anyway. Photoshop seems to take the long way round to do some pretty basic stuff.

I'm not trying to belittle you dark_shadow when I say this, lol... but it must be said... anyone who calls fireworks rubbish obviously doesn't know how to use it There's nothing rubbish about fireworks, it's just very different to photoshop!

Also with photoshop being more bitmap-orientated but fireworks being more vector-orientated, I find fireworks much easier to make adjustments to things.

I'd say that photoshop is more powerful, but fireworks is much easier. I do everything in fireworks and only ever move into photoshop if it's something a bit more tricky with bitmaps - tricky bitmap stuff is easier (and looks better) when done in photoshop as it has more tools to help you, but simple stuff is much faster to do in fireworks and looks just as good as anything in photoshop.

 

[Gobbledegeek]

I find FW so easy to use and have removed PS on numerous occasions because it seems so difficult to grasp. However, I think more can be done with PS than FW after all PS was designed as image editing software, whereas FW was only ever supposed to be for web graphics creation. Horses for course imho but I started with FW when stone tablets were still in circulation, it more often than not does what I need.

 

[GeForce]

I use both

 

[AS_Platinum]

Both have their merits, for something very simple or slicing & dicing, FW will be used, more advanced and PS will be used.

 

[martinturner]

I'm not trying to belittle you dark_shadow when I say this, lol... but it must be said... anyone who calls fireworks rubbish obviously doesn't know how to use it There's nothing rubbish about fireworks, it's just very different to photoshop!

A product can be 'rubbish' even if you DO know how to use it!

 

[~J~]

I agree with everyone else to be honest.

For a quick "button" (gradient, shaded, fancy effect) or anything that's a web-based small graphic (bullet, icon, etc) then Fireworks is an absolute dream to use.

But I'd never use it for touching up photos, PhotoShop is the tool for that.

 

[player]

I use both, I find photoshop better for photo graphic editing type stuff


but I prefer fireworks for vector images, logos, gradients etc