Photoshop vs. Fireworks CS3

Adam Bell
dataTV

 

Adam Bell of dzign@datatv.com

Practically anyone and everyone who owns any version of Adobe's Creative Suite knows what Photoshop is and what it does. But what about that OTHER graphics program in the box, Fireworks? Well, it's not for setting a lot of pyro-technics before a big event. It's a way to design graphics in a very different way than Photoshop does. Not to mention assist in creating Rich Internet Applications like Photo Galleries and Flex Projects. Learn the differences between the two applications and when you should use the right and wrong ones for your projects.

 

Adam Bell is the original organizer of MiniMAX having first presented it on November 1, 2004 during the annual Macromedia MAX conference as an event for local New Orleanians who were unable to attend the MAX confab. Bell has been running datatv.com since 1996 and originally is from Philadelphia with a Broadcast Design background. His studio has won three Macromedia Site of the Day awards as recent as May 3rd, 2005 with his all-Flash redesign of Acme Oyster House's site and used Flash 8 based video as well as create video for mobile phones for Alkemi Entertainment, a major Movie and Videogame Marketing company in Hollywood, CA. Due to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Bell relocated to the Los Angeles area just 9 days after New Orleans went underwater.