Aug 16, 2003 06:05 AM
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(Updated Aug 16, 2003 06:09 AM)
I have been online for a good 6 years now and never knew how much I was missing in regards to picture and photo editing.
For years I used Paint, great for drawing tiny stick figures, but offers little capability as far as real editing is concerned. Fire works 3 allows you to take most image types and change their size with ease . A must if you are making your own website. You can make motion .GIFs and more with the frame editing utilities. Select any color you could want and paste it with a multitude of included textures. From resizing and sharpening photos, to making new graphics, Fireworks offers bountiful resources that anyone could utilize.
Fireworks is MAC based, so its a little hard to find everything for the strictly Windows compatible user. The default saving every picture as a PNG becomes annoying, but makes up for it with an almost godly export preview, allowing you to save a picture in many different types including giving an image a transparent background, great for photo editing. I use fireworks 3 instead of the most current version because it offers the computer literate what they want, without the added ''User Friendly'' complications which usually end in frustration and aneurism.
It is a great asset when combined with Flash and DreamWeaver, and holds its own with its picture creation and editing ability.
