Tag archives for: Raster graphics editors

May 7, 2013

Adobe Fireworks is Fired

Well, it's a sad day for Adobe Fireworks users, as Adobe have announcement no further product development of the product apart from bug fixes. While we are not planning further feature development for Fireworks, we will continue to sell Fireworks CS6 as well as make it available as part of the Creative Cloud. We will provide security updates as necessary and may provide bug fixes. We plan to update Fireworks to support the next major releases of both Mac OS X and Windows. As more specific details Read more [...]
January 25, 2008

Super Nudge v1.0.3 for Adobe Fireworks CS3

Super Nudge, a new command panel from Phireworx. You can nudge your selections by any amount, including sub pixel amounts and individual points, add your own presets and delete presets. Read more [...]
January 25, 2008

Keap v1.0 for Adobe Fireworks CS3

Keap is Phireworx first exciting command set, available for you, no strings attached, free and ready to rock Macromedia Fireworks. Read more [...]
September 10, 2004

Fireworks Is Better Than Photoshop! Challenge #1

The very first response to my politically incorrect blog entry, entitled "Fireworks is better than Photoshop", turned out to be a good example. Not too complicated and not too easy, this example also turned out to be a good one for showing off some of the benefits of using Fireworks vs. Photoshop for web design. Read more [...]
July 29, 2002

Masking Effects in Fireworks MX

Create eye-catching collage effects with masking and layer-blending techniques. Italian artist Japi Honoo shares her trade secrets. In Fireworks MX, masking is used to create all sorts of useful and interesting visual effects. Any object—vector or bitmap—can be used to mask another. You can also design your own mask by starting with a clean slate and painting as you go with the many bitmap tools in Fireworks MX. With these masking and bitmap tools now more accessible than ever on the new Property Read more [...]
June 16, 2002

Creating Commands using Fireworks MX and Flash MX

Now that designers and developers can create interactive commands for Fireworks MX—with the help of new features in Flash MX—extensibility is about to become the hot topic in the Fireworks community. Fireworks MX already installs with several new work-saving commands, such as Align and the Data-Driven Graphics Wizard, but these are only the beginning. Read more [...]