vibrokatana
New Member
While Photoshop is nice, costing at over 600 dollars does not exactly make it cost effective for the average person. Fireworks has much of the needed feature set, while also offering slightly more. This is basically my interest into the comparisons between them and the problems of each.
Fireworks:
Pro:
- Costs $250 retails and 150 to upgrade
- Is geared more towards content creation, supports vectors and bitmaps pretty well.
- Has a lot of the tools from PS
Cons:
- When editing the cursor tends to lag horribly (like playing a game at 1 FPS, eh). While in PS it I have yet to see it do so.
- Opening large files can be much slower (CS3) in comparison with PS. One of my PSDs takes over 50 seconds compared to one or two in PS!
- Is missing several tools in comparison (patch, healing brush, pattern stamp, quick selection, etc).
- Not exactly 1:1 for PSDs. Color overlays don't seem to be supported :\
- Limited filter selection, especially in comparison from PS
Any other thoughts?
Fireworks:
Pro:
- Costs $250 retails and 150 to upgrade
- Is geared more towards content creation, supports vectors and bitmaps pretty well.
- Has a lot of the tools from PS
Cons:
- When editing the cursor tends to lag horribly (like playing a game at 1 FPS, eh). While in PS it I have yet to see it do so.
- Opening large files can be much slower (CS3) in comparison with PS. One of my PSDs takes over 50 seconds compared to one or two in PS!
- Is missing several tools in comparison (patch, healing brush, pattern stamp, quick selection, etc).
- Not exactly 1:1 for PSDs. Color overlays don't seem to be supported :\
- Limited filter selection, especially in comparison from PS
Any other thoughts?