Adobe Fireworks CS3

When Adobe took over Macromedia, there was doubt over whether it would carry on developing Fireworks. Without the new shared CS3 interface, and with some of its promised features still missing in the press beta under review, it certainly seems semi-detached. But the good news is that Fireworks is still here and firing on all cylinders.

Fireworks offers a good mix of vector- and bitmap-editing capabilities, but naturally, it can't compete on all points with Adobe's graphical flagships. Instead, all three are now designed to work hand-in-hand thanks to Fireworks CS3's new ability to open Photoshop PSD and Illustrator AI files. To make the integration as smooth as possible, Fireworks' handling of layers has been reworked to support hierarchical groups and subgroups, which makes working with complex layouts more manageable.

by Tom Arah, pcpro.co.uk
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