Compressing photos

**A face** · 15/03/2006, 4:45 PM

Originally Posted by ThatGuy

Also I would recommend macromedia Fireworks, though what the future holds for that particular program after Adobe's buy out is anyone's guess.-

Yeah, you'd wonder what will happen there, although they took them over about 2 years now (could be wrong there) and Macromedia have released updated versions since afaik. If fireworks is actually making money then i cant see them getting rid of it.

**monkey magic** · 15/03/2006, 7:25 PM

Originally Posted by dahamsta

It's a very big piece of software, certainly. However the developers need to look the word "usability" up in a dictionary.

adam

actually, i find photoshop to be very usable, but it is targeted at the professional designer. for someone just wanting to mess around with pictures fireworks is definately a betteer choice, and i really hope they dont give it the boot.

if adobe had any sense they could use it as a low end, more simple and cheaper photo editing tool, loosely based on the photoshop platform but with an inexperienced user in mind.

Originally Posted by A face

Yeah, you'd wonder what will happen there, although they took them over about 2 years now (could be wrong there) and Macromedia have released updated versions since afaik.

not so sure about that, last fireworks ive seen was fireworks mx, which is i think is about two years old, there was a dreamweaver mx and flash mx at the time too, and ive seen newer versions of them, i think flash 8 is the current one but ive yet to see a fireworks 8...

**dahamsta** · 15/03/2006, 7:49 PM

I wouldn't consider myself a professional designer, but I would consider myself a professional "software user"; or more accuratey, a power user. I reckon I'm qualified to have the opinion that Photoshop is an unusable piece of crap.

adam

**dahamsta** · 16/03/2006, 11:40 AM

Crap split here.

**Dodge** · 16/03/2006, 11:45 AM

You're a bit evangelical about hating it though adam. Some like it, you don't. Can we not just leave it there?

**dahamsta** · 16/03/2006, 12:01 PM

I don't think I'm being evangelical Dodge, just expressing an opinion. Everyone else is welcome to express an opinion too, just not in the way ThatGuy did.

Monkey Magic's post was a bit elitist, for example (I'm not someone that "messes around" either), but I didn't ban him.

I think PS is a piece of crap, others don't. The world turns.

adam