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"Used Fireworks for the first time yesterday..."

...and it's pretty flipping good. Been asked to make some ads for quite a high profile anti-virus company, and did most of them in Flash, except for the odd one which could be gif or jpeg only. Got a bit worried when I realised I didn't have any animation apps, but then remembered seeing something in Flash that mentioned animated gifs and Fireworks, and after a quick learning session, found that it's really easy - a cross between Flash and Photoshop, very handy! So I'm quite chuffed with the Flash stuff. Hopefully the client will like them and we'll get more work.

Oh, they're appearing on TheRegister.com - that's quite a well known site, right? Looks like I've landed on my feet with this design company.

C64 -> Amiga -> PC
I can remember my external CD-Rom for the amiga and Monkey Island oh and Sim City. I can't remember much about my C64, apart from its Blue screen and some big ass disks.

I missed early pc's. Wayyyyy, too expensive.

Atari-> BBC Model B-> C64-> Amiga-> PC.

I actually had a 086, which I wrote my first lines of qBASIC and BASIC on. It blew up though, as I was tinkering about inside it with the lid off and it still plugged in...

Nimco wrote:
> I remember the days of Windows 3.0 for Workstations on an RM Nimbus
> 286!! 108MB Hard drive (huge at the time). A 3½" Floppy
> Disk drive (not a 5¼"). 14" VGA Screen. Wow....

I still have a 486 dx4 with 500MB hdd and 32MB Ram at home. Use it as a Linux firewall.

I remember the days of Windows 3.0 for Workstations on an RM Nimbus 286!! 108MB Hard drive (huge at the time). A 3½" Floppy Disk drive (not a 5¼"). 14" VGA Screen. Wow....

monkey_man wrote:
> But nothing beats Paint.

On Windows 3.11

But nothing beats Paint.

Been using FWKS since 1.0 and Photoshop since v.4, very easy to seperate the two...

PS = Print
FWKS = Web

PS to FWKS works well as the biggest thing going for FWKS is it's compression engine, which, quite frankly, unrinates all over anything PS can do. Image Ready sucks as should be avoided at all costs and fwiw, if saving jpegs in PS for web use, USE THE SAVE FOR WEB FUNCTION!!! Saving from PS as a jpeg adds a line of meta data to the file which IE can't interprate making all your jpegs useless!!;)

FWKS to PS doesn't work as well for some odd reason.

Been using them both for way too long, and since MX2004, FWKS outstrips PS by miles for anything web based. Photoshop will always be the daddy for print though!;)

Mode wrote:
> monkey_man wrote:
> P0wned by your 10 year old brother. What are you, gay?
>
> I prefer to devote time to programming, rather than animating/design
> work. I don't think there was any need to what you said.

Only joking mate...

Photoshop is still the bestest. I was making my images in that, then opening them in Fireworks to animate.

Mode wrote:
> I prefer to devote time to programming, rather than animating/design
> work. I don't think there was any need to what you said.

Me -> Programmer without any artistic talent.
Brother -> Freelance artist.