Re: FLASH: OT: Fireworks replacing Adobe Photoshop?

[Matt Spiegler]

And it probably never will. The annoying fact is that unless they really really

piss of their customers Adobe has a rock-solid product line already

(Pshop,Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere etc.). So they don't have The

animation/web market locked up, big deal! if they would just recognize and

accept their position as one of (not THE ONLY) many market leaders, and work

with the other companies (MM, Quark etc.), to integrate their products,

everyone would be happy. Besides, Animation and interactivity, from the early

days of Director, have always been the MM domain. It's not as though they snuck

in and stole this market away from Adobe.


graphics professionals display a particularly strong allegiance to their

software, and Adobe has always benefited from this. What they need to

understand is that it's going to be just as difficult to convince designers and

programmers to give up their non-adobe products, and to even attempt it,

especially through such sleazy tactics, could potentially backfire. I was

strongly considering buying Livemotion, because I'd heard that it worked well

for animation, if not for scripting, and could be used in conjunction with (not

instead of) Flash. I think I'll spend that money on more RAM instead, give my

Flash a little more oomph ;)


Colleen Appleton wrote:


> Fireworks doesn't do everything PS does and PS doesn't do everything FW does

> so I need them both.  FW is to limiting for special effects when it comes to

> all the neat plug-ins PS has.

>

> And if you add the plug-ins to FW, you are still relying on Adobe so it's a

> no win situation for the artists here.

>

> Can't we play nice MM and Adobe?  You're hurting us.... your customers



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