> it was incredibly powerful, especially for the time period we're talking about
Fireworks was also doing this around the same time but seems to have been completely been forgotten because of Photoshops dominance.
Fireworks was also doing this around the same time but seems to have been completely been forgotten because of Photoshops dominance.
I've gone from Photoshop (1st version was 4.0 that I remember) -> Fireworks -> Sketch
I think its heyday was when HTML table layouts were still how you had to layout websites and it's slicing capabilities were really convenient. I suspect that was the killer feature for a lot of people but once CSS layouts took over, Fireworks really fell out of favor and Adobe never bothered to reposition it as a UI tool.
I still use it to this day for my limited editing/mockup needs. The new workflow seems to be mockup tool (like Balsamiq) -> Photoshop design -> HTML/CSS, but for my needs, I can get reasonably close enough in both layout and design in Fireworks just do Fireworks -> HTML/CSS.
I don't know if a tool that is close enough to Fireworks to be a good replacement has come around, but I know it's definitely not Photoshop, which I find far too complicated for the basic tasks I need.
Despite having the full creative suite I still turn to Fireworks for quick jobs sometimes when I need to do a fast crop or slice job, or put together a simple 'constructed' image element.