Product Features

-The ideal solution for rapidly prototyping websites and web application interfaces
-Create and edit both vector and bitmap images in one application
-Optimize vector and bitmap images for the web
-Offers tight integration with related tools, including Photoshop CS3, Illustrator CS3, Flash CS3 Professional, Dreamweaver CS3, and Adobe Flex
-Ideal for Web and interactive content designers and developers, higher education faculty and students, and experienced graphic designers

WRR Review

While there isn't really anything wrong with Adobe Fireworks CS3, our preference when it comes to a graphic editing program is Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended. This is based on personal reasons, mainly the layout of tools and also how you access certain filters and layer styles. Also another reason is that you don't have as many options or filters to work with in Fireworks CS3. Also the layout of layers and much of the information on the right side of the workspace is a little confusing.
Overall Adobe Fireworks CS3 is a powerful tool and worth having if your not going to be doing too indepth graphic editing or designing, also you may want to try both because it may just be personal preference to use Fireworks over Photoshop. Click here for a free 30 day trial version.

Product Details

Adobe Fireworks CS3 accelerates Web design and development. It's the ideal tool for creating and optimizing images & rapidly prototyping websites and Web applications. Fireworks CS3 offers the flexibility to edit both vector and bitmap images, a common library of prebuilt assets, and timesaving integration with Adobe tools. Rapid prototyping for interactive layouts and rich Internet applications New Pages panel contains slices, layers, frames, animations, and canvas settings - offering multipage support Organize and manage your prototypes with a new hierarchical layer structure Apply lighting effects, shadow effects, styles, blend modes - add depth and character to text and symbols Work with a common library of graphic symbols, text symbols, and animations for frequent use in Web applications, forms, interfaces and sites Intelligent scaling - 9-slice scaling for buttons & graphic symbols; combine with the new Auto Shape library to accelerate website and application prototyping Streamlined Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Bridge and Adobe Flash integration