Professional Creative Control
Quickly create high-quality web graphics and complex interactivity.
Fireworks offers all the familiar tools you need: robust photo editing,
precise text control, and professional image creation.
Get top-quality design results. Take creative
control with vector and bitmap editing in an integrated environment.
Produce great-looking, highly optimized files. Make
graphics look their best under any delivery scenario with optimization
features like Export Preview and Selective JPG Compression. Optimize
Fireworks files from within Dreamweaver.
Quickly create sophisticated web navigation.
Automatically generate graphics and JavaScript for buttons, interactive
interfaces, and pop-up menus by using wizards.
Enhance websites with graphical text. Make text more
readable with a system anti-aliasing option, or, control text appearance
even further with the custom anti-aliasing option.
Deliver more realistic photos and animations. Easily
create the illusion of motion with motion blur Live Effects. Touch up
photos with the Replace Color and Red Eye Removal tools.
Supercharged Performance
Fireworks provides a complete professional toolset for rapid
production and easy updates. Reduce design and development time, even
when working with large images.
Work and export faster. Speed workflow in a
streamlined, intuitive user interface. Manipulate large images, edit
text, and complete other processor-intensive tasks much faster.
Automatically output specific file formats from Fireworks to Macromedia
Flash, Dreamweaver, Macromedia FreeHand, Macromedia Director, and
third-party graphics and HTML packages with one click.
Design more efficiently. Select the right brush,
texture, or fill pattern by using the Property inspector’s graphical
previews. Automatically save GIF and JPG files in their original
formats.
Decrease production time for repetitive graphics.
Automatically create repetitive graphics by dynamically linking to XML
content. Save settings and specify output file names in source XML data
through the Data-Driven Graphics wizard’s simplified user interface.
Seamless Cross-Product Workflow
Work effectively with your design or development team, thanks to
broad support for all major graphics formats, HTML editors, and
cross-product workflow across Macromedia and third-party tools.
Share files across graphics applications. Easily
share files between Macromedia Flash and FreeHand, and Adobe®
Photoshop®, and Illustrator®. Export SWF files and open Fireworks files
directly within Macromedia Flash. Open, edit, and export Photoshop
graphics while retaining layers, masks, and text properties.
Save time with Roundtrip® editing. Signature
Roundtrip editing between Fireworks and Dreamweaver handles server-side
code and nested tables, delivering a smoother workflow.
Collaborate easily with team members. Move files
easily between graphics applications, including Dreamweaver, Macromedia
Flash, FreeHand, Photoshop, and Illustrator. Avoid overwriting shared
files by using the same Check-In/Check-Out function as in Dreamweaver
and Macromedia Flash. Upload files to a remote server with one click
using built-in FTP.