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Last week, I purchased an eBook from Adobe Press (Flash CS3 related) because I wanted to get back up to speed with Flash since I’ll need to use it for upcoming projects. This was the first time I bought an eBook and the only reason I did was because I wanted it right away and …
This does not show up on Adobe’s Web site yet but, as has been announced elsewhere, you can get the new Updater 1 for Fireworks CS3. You have to update through Fireworks by going to the Help menu and choosing “Updates”. The update fixes several critical bugs including shadows not scaling correctly in 9 slice …
For some reason, some of my old posts are turning up on MXNA recently as if they were new. I apologize about that but it’s apparently not because of anything I did. I’ve been swamped with work recently and I obviously haven’t posted anything new but I haven’t edited those old posts either so I …
I just found out about a great new extension for Fireworks that will help you create, save and recall guides sets quickly and easily. This is a powerful new Flash panel based extension that really fills a hole in Fireworks’ native toolset. If you have worked in other graphic apps like FreeHand, Illustrator or InDesign …
Now that I have installed the new CS3 Design Premium release version and have actually spent some time working with the new applications, I’m starting to understand the fuss a lot of people made and are still making over the new Adobe user interface. Although I was a beta tester, I’ve mainly been using Fireworks …
There’s a VERY interesting new post from ex Adobe Illustrator Product Manager Mordy Golding on how Illustrator gets new features. He goes into great detail into the process of how a new version of an application as complex as Illustrator is planned and developed and what kind of criteria the team needs to weigh to decide what features …
There’s a lot of talk amongst users these days about the soon to be released Adobe Creative Suite 3 and how they have been separated into Web, Design and Production “flavours”. Many people think that this separation, especially the one between Web and Design (Print) is arbitrary and does not reflect the real life work flows …
Nice post from Kim Cavanaugh on his Brain Frieze blog today where he’s giving props to the Fireworks user community that has been working with Macromedia and now Adobe for years to improve Fireworks which resulted in the awesome new CS3 version. Like Kim, I have been a member of Fireworks’ Advisory Group for several years and I have …
Introduction When choosing a graphic application for creating Web site layouts and graphics, designers are confronted with many choices between very different types of applications. As Web professionals, we need powerful and flexible tools that are well adapted to our unique requirements because, even with the best of planning, we often need to make design …
Well, it seems that my timing for the publication of the “Why Choose Fireworks” article was even better than I though… Danielle Beaumont the new Fireworks Product Manager at Adobe just posted a message to the Fireworks forum stating that Fireworks was still an important product for them and, more importantly, that it was still under …