Why isn’t Fireworks being developed further?ĭesigning for the screen in 2013 is incredibly different to designing for the screen in 1998. I trust that answers your questions and reassures you that we're actively working on a suitable successor.ĭoes Adobe care about Fireworks customers?Ībsolutely – we understand that web designers love Fireworks for it’s unique approach to page-based, stateful interaction design and rapid prototyping, and that it is an essential part of the web design process.
Are there any software out there which is similar to Fireworks? I'll keep on using CS6 till it's viable, but with the passage of time I guess there'll be a need to - we posted an update to the Fireworks announcement post. I like Adobe, they do amazing things, but why drop Fireworks? That export feature to Adobe Reflow should be integrated into Fireworks, but they abandoned it and inserted into Photoshop. Guess what? They made possible fast slicing in Photoshop (like you could do in Fireworks akmost in the same manner many years ago) and export to Adobe Reflow (programm for making responsive layout). I've recently watched Adobe Max 2013 where they demonstrated new features of Photoshop. Here Photoshop is no match at all to Fireworks. Photoshop is good, but if you make website, compare the time spent and ease of Fireworks and Photoshop. May be they simply decided to convert Photoshop, their flagman ship, into all-ine-one solution for photos and webdesign which drives me crazy. Fireworks's purpose - website creation (prototyping, design) and UI. Illustrator is good at logos, vector illustrations and so on.
Photoshop is great for photo manipulation and digital drawing. I see your point, but you know, Photoshop and Illustrator are specialized in their own fields.
It's still a mystery for me why Fireworks doesn't get love from Adobe
People will love a good product and sales'll be high. It will be much more reasonable to continue the support for Fireworks or even rebuild it from the ground up if needed. Illustrator is good for precise logo design but a very strange decision for complete webdesign process. Make webdesign in Photoshop is a torture if to compare with Fireworks. That's why I need to know - do you plan to make such a software that will substitute Fireworks, or we, Fireworks users, should look somewhere else for that type of software? (I don't mean to be rude - it's simply a question I want to get answer to) So why drop Fireworks?įireworks is one of the major stages of my webdesign workflow. You have such a great software like Dreamweaver, Indesign, Illustrator and so on. And that is why I'm completely confused about your decision to abandon Fireworks I know, you are aware of all these reasons. It will be too overwhelmed with different options and features - as the consequence, too complicated to use, huge in memory usage and so on. Such a piece of software (Photoshop) doesn't have future if it's bundled with everything. People simply don't know what Fireworks can offer them, and do webdesign in Photoshop or even Illustrator what is oddly.įireworks was never advertised as good as Photoshop and it was so frustrating to see that Photoshop started to become an all-in-one software and Fireworks lacked support. Fireworks wasn't given enough dedication since it's born.
May be poor sales made you drop the further development of Fireworks, but from my point of view it's a lack of good marketing campaing. I won't state the reasons for that as many people already wrote them in separate threads and here. It's important to mention, that neither Photoshop nor Illustrator can substitute Fireworks (and what is more important, they mustn't do this!!! ). As we considered adding new capabilities to Fireworks, we came to the conclusion that creating new, task-focused tools would better enable us to meet the future needs of web designers and developers."ġ) Does Adobe plan to make a modern substitute for Fireworks? Or not?Ģ) When will this happen (please tell approximate date) ? "Designing for the screen in 2013 is incredibly different to designing for the screen in 1998. I was looking forward to see the new version of Fireworks CC (as well as other people) and got extremely disappointed when heard that it was simply abandoned.