A little while ago, Jason Santa Maria wrote a very interesting post about Photoshop and Fireworks (as well about Adobe in general…) in which he brings up many good points to which the powers that be at Adobe should pay real close attention. First, he admits that, although Photoshop is the Adobe application he uses the most as he designs Web sites…
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The Year 2007 on Pixelyzed.com
An overview of the last year on pixelyzed.com Now that 2008 is just about to start, I thought it would be a good idea to write a pixelyzed.com style year end review. There’s been a lot of activity in our little world last year as well as in other areas of the software industry. Throughout 2007, I discussed products and…
To “Ping” or not to “Ping”
There was a thread on Adobe’s Fireworks forums recently where a user was asking why Fireworks uses the PNG file format (and extension) for its native editable files (the equivalent to Illustrator’s .ai and Photoshop’s .psd). This is an issue that gets raised from time to time and that thread was just the latest public example of…
Interesting New Things from Adobe: Thermo and Share
It seems that Adobe is currently quite busy coming up with new useful technology and services. The first one is Share which is currently in Beta on Labs. Share is a service for publishing and sharing documents from anywhere and with whoever you choose. The intersteing thing I see for me is that you could create a repository…
Fireworks Strokes Rendering Issues
I’ve been wanting to address this issue here for a while now and this morning I got an email from one of my long time readers asking about it. So I decided to write a quick post to illustrate the issue and offer a solution. The problem: how Fireworks renders certain 1 pixel strokes as a blurred 2 pixels stroke depending on what…
