Macromedia Fireworks 8
Fireworks 8 lets you balance maximum image quality with minimum compression size as you create, edit and optimize images for the web with precise control.
Create animated rollovers and pop-up
menus with Fireworks 8’s intuitive visual tools, and utilize
round-trip editing capabilities with
Dreamweaver
8 and
Flash
Professional 8 for greater efficiency.
Why Fireworks 8
Get top-quality design results.
Take creative control with seamless vector and bitmap editing in an integrated environment.
Produce
highly optimized
files that still
look great.
Make graphics
look their best
under any
delivery
scenario with
optimization
features like
export, preview,
cross-platform
gamma preview,
and selective
JPG compression.
Slice and
export page
comps.
Slice up a
Fireworks page
layout and
export the
entire page, or
selected slices
(including
graphics, HTML,
and code for
rollover
effects) to an
HTML editor
(such as
Dreamweaver or
Microsoft
FrontPage).
Create
sophisticated
web navigation.
Automatically
generate
graphics and
JavaScript for
buttons,
interactive
interfaces, and
pop-up menus
without learning
how to write
code.
New Features in Fireworks 8
Build interactive pop-up menus in CSS.
Fireworks 8 uses CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) format to create interactive pop-up menus. The result is clean and easily customizable code that integrates well into sites built in Dreamweaver.
Take advantage of improved compatibility with Flash.
Vector attributes such as fills, strokes, filters and blend modes are preserved when moving objects between Flash and Fireworks. ActionScript color values are recognized when copied from Flash and pasted into Fireworks color value fields.
Streamline workflow.
Dramatic improvements to the workflow of common tasks maximize productivity.
Apply changes to many files at once.
Take advantage of a dramatic rethinking of the batch processing workflow.
Import more file formats.
Fireworks 8 now supports import of QuickTime Image, MacPaint, SGI, and JPEG 2000 file formats. (A QuickTime plug-in is required for QuickTime support).
Explore new creative possibilities.
Unleash creativity with more than 25 new blend modes to alter the look of colors and objects.
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