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Re: Anybody use ImageReady? Pros/Cons?by jdowdell(at)macromedia.com (John Dowdell) |
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At 7:43 AM 10/15/98, David T. Schaller wrote: > In Fireworks, you have to save in Fireworks own format or export > to other, flattened, formats, so you can't modify an image in > Photoshop very well. That's true, Fireworks 1.0 does not write out layered PSD formats. The rationale here is that Photoshop is great at processing photos, but is not that strong at compression, animation, image slicing, and so on. That's why we focused more on Photoshop import than export -- if anything, you'd come from Photoshop to Fireworks, rather than the other way around. Photoshop *is* able to open Fireworks native file formats. That's because Fireworks uses PNG, an open standard described by the World Wide Web Consortium. Unfortunately Photoshop has no way to reproduce the live strokes, the multi-object layering, the animation/compression info, and other features available in Fireworks. Photoshop can get just the imagery from the Fireworks PNG, but cannot do anything with the Fireworks editing data. Fireworks also reads in layered Photoshop files, too. This is particularly helpful if you have multilayer PSDs that you wish to animate... Fireworks can actually *add* such PSDs to an existing animation, rather than only using them to create new frames as ImageReady does. Just like ImageReady, though, Fireworks cannot edit all new Photoshop features such as its new multifont text, its Live Effects settings, and so on. (Fireworks can edit its own multifont text and Live Effects, of course, but not from a PSD import yet.) Fireworks and ImageReady can get some-but-not-all editing information from a native Photoshop file. Give a try to the animation in Fireworks, too... rotation and scaling are usually very important on the web, and the animated embossing and so on are really pretty neat. It's particularly fun to animate text-along-a-curve. I think you'll enjoy it. btw, if you find that there are particular tasks that you wish Fireworks would ease more than it already does, then folks on the development team are quite eager to hear the info, please... mail to "wish-fireworks(at)macromedia.com" will go directly to the entire planning group, and will also be archived for feature prioritization too. Thanks! jd John Dowdell, Macromedia Tech Support, San Francisco CA US Private email options: http://www.macromedia.com/support/priority.html Search technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ Entertainment on the web: http://shockrave.macromedia.com/ Luscious web graphics: http://www.macromedia.com/software/fireworks/
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