Adobe Fireworks
Enhances web design with bitmap and vector editing, specialized tools for rapid prototyping, hierarchical layers, smart guides, slices, symbols, and 9-slice scaling. Excellent image compression and format support, including JPEG, PNG, and GIF, ensures web optimization.
Cost / License
- Pay once
- Proprietary
Application types
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
Development of Fireworks has been stopped, but last version, Adobe Fireworks CS6 (v12), released in 2012, is still available as part of the 
Adobe Creative Cloud , selecting the option Show Older Apps in Preferences
Features
- Support for 4K
- Ad-free
- Works Offline
- Support for Layers
- Image Optimizer
- Open PSD files
- Bitmap Editing
- Prototyping
Adobe Fireworks News & Activities
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Recent activities
- Danilo_Venom updated Adobe Fireworks
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What is Adobe Fireworks?
Adobe Fireworks is a bitmap and vector graphics editor used for rapid prototyping of websites and application interfaces. It provides tools for creating and optimizing web-friendly images. It is tailored for web designers, offering features like slices and hotspots and is compatible with other Adobe products.
Fireworks includes features like hierarchical layers, smart guides, symbols, 9-slice scaling, image optimization, and multiple export options. Hierarchical layers can exceed the image's dimensions and smart guides provide visual and placement aids. Symbols can be replicated across multiple pages or on the same page. The 9-slice scaling feature maintains the roundness of transformed rounded rectangles.
Fireworks specializes in image optimization for web production, offering superior image compression rates with JPEG, PNG, and GIF images. It can read Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator file formats as well as Encapsulated PostScript format. It can export images to various file formats, including PNG, JPEG, GIF, Animated GIF, TIFF, SWF, BMP, WBMP, and PDF, and also supports HTML export by converting slices to HTML elements. Fireworks also supports animation and defining behaviors in cases of symbol buttons.
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One time purchase (perpetual license) that costs $0.Alternatives
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- English
Comments and Reviews
I still use Fireworks even though there is no longer any new support for it. I have used it for years and it does what I need when it comes to certain applications. I use Adobe Illustrator for Vector graphics, and Adobe Fireworks for pixel graphics. It sure beats Microsoft Paint.
I started using this software when it was Macromedia Fireworks 4 when I was 12 years old in 2001.
I still use it to annotate things and get super quick wireframes on top of existing designs. For example taking a screenshot and moving things around. I still think there is no better software for this.
But for actually designing things that will be used in 2024... It just isn't enough anymore. I really wish someone would copy its way of handling images and vectors as it is sooo intuitive and easy.
Currently for other tasks I have had to learn Figma and Affinity Designer 2.
After years using Dreamweaver there is no substitute yet for Fireworks. The only drawback is lack of support for newer digital formats.
None of the listed software is really an alternative to adobe fireworks. As well as a bitmap editor, Firworks works with vectors but render them as pixels specifically as a tool for screen design. Also having reusable "symbols", "pages" and a range of prototype export tools, sets this tool apart as a specific design tool for pixel based interfaces.
I agree, the only one that is close to fireworks is sketch for Mac
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Great for quick mockups, simple vector work or planning out layouts or UI