| Adobe Fireworks | |
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 Fireworks CS6 on Windows 7 | |
| Developer | Adobe Systems |
| Final release | CS6 (12) / May 7, 2012; 13 years ago (2012-05-07) |
| Operating system | Windows,macOS |
| Type | Raster graphics editor,vector graphics editor |
| License | proprietary |
| Website | www |
Adobe Fireworks (formerlyMacromedia Fireworks) is abitmap andvector graphics editor which was developed and distributed from 1998 through 2012. Fireworks was made forweb designers for rapidly creating website prototypes and application interfaces. Its features included slices, which are segments of an image that are converted toHTML elements, and the ability to add hotspots, which are segments of an image that are converted tohyperlinks. It was originally designed to integrate with other Adobe products such asAdobe Dreamweaver andAdobe Flash. It was originally developed byMacromedia, which Adobe acquired in 2005. It was available as either a standalone product or bundled withAdobe Creative Suite. Older versions were bundled withMacromedia Studio. Adobe discontinued Fireworks in 2013, citing the increasing overlap in functionality with its other products such asAdobe Photoshop,Adobe Illustrator, andAdobe Edge.[1]
Fireworks'user interface is consistent with the rest of Adobe Creative Suite, similar to that ofAdobe Photoshop. OnmacOS, it is possible to display the application inmultiple document interface mode or the standard viewing mode where all toolbars float freely on the screen.
All the layers can be accessed from the Layers panel. Layers may be wider or taller than the image itself. However, the final image is produced by hiding those areas that exit the image boundary.
Fireworks supportguides, horizontal or vertical lines that act like a real-world ruler to help drawing, content placement and image composition. A user may place one or more guides on the image at any time and use it as a visual aid. For instance a guide is useful when a piece of text must be placed in line with another graphical item. Additionally, the user may enable thesnap feature of the Fireworks, which causes objects (pieces of image, text or layers) drag to the vicinity of a guide to snap to it.
Thesmart guides however, are not placed by users. They are areas of the image that may interest the user such as the image boundaries, middle of the image or general boundaries of another object. When a user drags an object, Fireworks tries to guess what the user intends to do with the object and draws temporary visual and placement aids. This feature was added with the release of CS4.[2]
Reusable elements can be designated assymbols and placed at multiple pages or on the same page. When the master symbol is edited, Fireworks propagates the change to all instances of that symbol.
This feature ensures that rounded rectangles maintain their roundness when transformed depending on where the guides are placed. CS4 has this feature exposed as a tool. With this feature introduced in the CS3 version, its usage was limited to symbols.
Fireworks were created specifically for web production.[3] Since not every user may be in possession of a fast Internet connection, it is in the best interest of the web developers to optimize the size of their digital contents. In terms ofimage compression, Fireworks has a better compression rate than Photoshop withJPEG,PNG andGIF images.[4]
Fireworks understands theAdobe Photoshop andAdobe Illustrator file formats (.psd and.ai files) as well asEncapsulated PostScript format (.eps files).
Fireworks can export images to multiple file formats including PNG, JPEG, GIF,Animated GIF,TIFF,SWF,BMP,WBMP andPDF. It can also export toSVG (with the help of a free Export extension[5]) and FXG 2.0. Fireworks can export toHTML by converting slices to HTML elements.
Previously known asframes,states are used for animation purposes. They are also used for defining behaviors in cases of symbol buttons like Up, Down, Over (changing the visual style of buttons on click, release, and hover with the mouse).
| Free and open-source | |
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| Proprietary | |
| Discontinued | |
