Because Macromedia Fireworks and Adobe Photoshop both share a similar goal—the creation and modification of bitmap graphics—some features of the two programs are similar. However, unlike Photoshop, Fireworks was designed from the ground up for creating, modifying, and optimizing Web graphics. As a result, there are several features in Fireworks that behave very differently from those in Photoshop.
This article discusses the main differences between Photoshop and Fireworks. If you are a Photoshop user who is learning Fireworks, then this article is for you.
Randy Varnell is an instructional media developer in Dallas. He has written
about FreeHand and Fireworks for Macromedia since 1996, contributing to
user manuals, online help, and Macromedia.com.
