Fireworks MX 2004 Upgrade
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Fireworks MX 2004 Upgrade Reviews
The program is absolutely crawling with bugs. Fireworks is something to use only if you don't have the money for the real thing. I honestly cannot imagine why anyone, given a choice, would use Fireworks.
It lacks essential tools. Leaving you a one-or-two-pixel gap along a side. Even the much-touted ability to handle both vector and bitmap graphics is likely to get in your way as much as help you.
It's slow. My advice is clear: stick to Photoshop. To give an idea of the extent of bugs simple things the program can't handle if you copy a portion of a graphic and create a new file to drop it into, the new file will almost always be created slightly too big.
I looked for scratch disk on Fireworks but found none. What a pity as the interface looked really cool. I thought that maybe because I was using the trial version, the program crawled through even the basic functions. Trial is available from Macromedia and you can do worse than taking it for a free spin. Perhaps the real strength of Fireworks appear in doing Web projects as touted by Macromedia. Applied filter, Levels.
(Your workflow may vary, of course). I used other Effects like color balance and seen the same behavior: you will see the hourglass everytime you make any change. But Web images are still subject to image editing, aren't they.I would recommend this if the flipping hourglass icon is your idea of productivity and fun. took Fireworks 3 seconds to open the Levels dialog box.Clicked Preview.
There is no waiting time when applying filters in PS 7 for my digital photographs. I wonder. But those first few minutes disappointed me.I opened a digital image, (jpeg, about 900kB taken by a digital camera) on Fireworks so I can make exposure corrections.
Another 2 or 3 seconds before the change was reflected on the workspace.Moved the sliders, again 2-3 seconds before the effect updated on the workspace.The unsharp mask dialog box appeared 3 seconds after the option was clicked and took all of 5 seconds to update the changes.The slowness of Fireworks MX 2004 is all the more obvious when I compared it with Photoshop 7. To be fair, I only spent a few minutes with it so there might be some workarounds I have missed. See for yourself.If macromedia can make Fireworks MX 2004 as speedy and as reliable as Flash MX (not the 2004 version) I would consider it again.
I am surprised why Fireworks MX 2004 is so slow. Could there be speed-workarounds I have missed. But as it is, no, thank you.
If it was really fast it would have blazed as soon as I ran it. Photoshop is just swift.
Trying to open and close the layer triangle takes *seconds* to execute, instead of instantaneous. Save your money, stick with Fireworks MX. It's slow as a molasses. Like Dreamweaver MX 2004, it is also rife with bugs that Macromedia refuses to acknowledge, much less issue fixes for. Despite what Macromedia writes in their self-inflating promotional literature, Fireworks MX 2004 is SLOWER than Fireworks MX. Now take the same document and open it in Fireworks MX 2004.
The application has gotten bigger, slower, dumber.
Create some text.
Create text and a shape in that new layer folder.
Then try open and close the layer (using triangle).
Try this simple test: create a new document in Fireworks MX (the original version, not 2004).
The upgrade to 2004 will only set you back some hard-earned cash, and it will kill your productivity.
Nice and quick, right.
Add a layer folder.
create a shape.
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