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Thamks amazing how fast flash have developed over the years...

FreeHand MX had some problems with Tiger (OS X). If you are using FH for your workflow, you have to wait till MM work on the patch which is highly impossible IMHO. $129 doesn't sound cheap as most of its new functions are bells and whistles. The best you can get is a true 64-bit OS that's all.

MM is cool, it revolutionize the web with its "flash" software.

Well Freehand and Illustrator, fireworkd and ImageReady are "duplication" products in a sense. Rememer Adobe was prevent from buying Adlus FreeHand....

After Adobe successfully acquired Macromedia, will Fireworks and Freehand got killed or sold off?

Maybe you can use layers to align or usee CSS to align to the position that you want. Do a search on how to do that, you should be able to find a number of sites teaching you how to do it.enjoy, cheers

Everybody just loves Photoshop beit hobbist or professional, 2D or 3D. It just got the punch! In May Adobe is shipping Photoshop CS 2... well look out for it.

Discreet has began shipping the highly antipicated Combustion 4. Overview of new features are as follows:Discreet?s Diamond Keyer? the second generation of sophisticated keying algorithms derived from flame, Discreet?s Academy Award?-winning online visual effects systemTime-Warp?a fully key-frameable, time-remapping operator for quickly creating slow-motion and speed-up effectsB-spline vector shapes and new point-grouping?faster, more efficient rotoscopingNew optimized ?Fast Gaussian Blur?Custom capsules?create and save encapsulated single or grouped operator nodes and build yourself a library of effects to share and re-useGbuffer builder?enables custom building of Discreet?s Rich Pixel Format (RPF) data structures from bitmap files for more extensive use of combustion RPF nodesMerge operator?new optimized operator to quickly merge 2 layers of the same size using any combustion transfer nodeInterface enhancements?edit-operator, navigation, filtering and compare tool improvements just to name a fewNew file import/export options?import of images into color mixer, import ASE (ASCII Scene Export) camera targets from 3ds max, import Windows Media, Open EXR compatible outputEnhanced paint?new paint tools, grids & rulers, B-spline in paint and new customized brushes

Professionals will probably use PS over PSP. It's the industry standard tools but it come at a cost. Average consumer don't really need a tool as powerful as PS. A good shareware is sometimes more than enough.

Of course as PS is a much complicated program. My point is when working with bigger images, fireworks tends to slows down after working with it for sometime and the speed in manipulating images is much slower than in PS. Fireworks do have it's strong points in creating web graphics. Is there a way in Windows to make Fireworks work faster? Or just have to wait till MM improved its speed. I still before MX2004, fireworks was a real slow program.

It's used for web graphics and simple web banner. For animation, you need to use a program that's designed for that purpose. e.g 3ds Max, Maya, Cinema 4D. For 2D animation in a small outfit, flash, toom boom studio, the tab seems to be more suitable than using image ready.

Just click on the brush tool and start painting. you can then change ita attributes at the propertise box below the screen and from the pop-up button you can chage the attributes to different brushes and strokes. I isreally easy to use, just that you have to explore and use it often. Enjoy fireworks! cheers.

FreeHand is the most usable version so far on Mac OS9. It's a pity that FHMX on OS X is full of bugs. FH seems to be in a slumbering mode. MM might as well sell it to other company that is willing to develope it.

I find that fireworks runs very slowly in PC.Is this due to CPU speed or the program itslef.My photoshop runs quite fast on my PC running the fireworks too.I am running on WIN XP PRO, 1GB RAM, with 2 HDD.thanks

in terms of imaging, nothing comes close to photoshop.Fireworks excels in integration with dreamweaver and flash. You can edit images back and fro with 1 click and so on. It's really a big time saver for me.You can use fireworks to create ppop-up menu which you cannot do in photoshop.think that's about all...

Anyone knows about the future development of FreeHand MX and when the next version is coming out? FreeHand seems got ouf Macrmedia's radar for the past few years and bog down with bugs. I wish the next version will be a good as it is a good program and was going in the right direction.

There are a lot of software doing just what you want. These include front page, dreamweaver, golive, hotmetal pro etc.... want you use will mostly depend on your budget and what type of web sites you intend to build. There is no hard and fast rule.

Adobe Creative Suite & Macromedia Studio MX 2004. You can do almost anything regarding graphic design with these two packages and won't go wrong as it is used by graphic design industry.You can have power to create your design.You can swap files with printersOther designers can open your files.

I am wondering which is better to use for creating 3D graphics.1) Is it on a Mac or PC?2) What are the platform that most 3D artists use?It seems that most people are using a PC to me? Any know reasons.Thanks in advance. No flaming please and this is NOT on platform wars as I need so geniue answers from people who have worked in the 3D industry before as I am interest in picking up the skills.thanks

To add to my point, games must also ran on Linux... youngsters are the future. If they started on linux, the future may be there for linux. then the graphics dept, video dept..... these are where big bangs came. It has always amused Microsoft why designers swear by using a Mac... with that Mac is able to undergo it's worse times and came out stronger.

A visit to the adobe website didn't says it support linux platform. Are you using it with an emulation software? Or do you mean linux's own image editor.?Until most basic host of apps were rewritten in Linux and further easy of use on it's GUI, I don't see it will caught on fire with the masses though I personally see great potential in this OS.3rd party support and vendors are very important. e.g if I buy a drive or mouse, I must be confident that it will have the driver optimised to run it the computer.

I have read on magazines that a number of companies in the movie industry uses linux for rendering computer generated images. Is there a specific reasons for doing that? Is it due to cost or stability? I would like to see linux desktop as another alternative to Windows and Mac OS X. But software support from major vendors seems to develop very slowly. Linux programmers should make the OS as easy to use as a Mac to gain wide acceptance. Most users are not bothered to learn all the commands to get things done.Hope that 2005 will be a break through year for linux to gain more support from 3 party vendors.

I intend to buy counter strike 2 but I need a few info from experienced users before plunging to save some effort. My configuration is P4 (2.4 Ghz)Graphic Card (creative GForce 2 unltra, old)Ram 512MBWith a low graphic config, can i get the best of it when playing CS2? I heard from friends that CS2 needs a relatively high graphic card and cpu.

Hi, can I fix a computer with only 1 small fan to reduce noise? My present one has got 3 fans and it's very noisy. With only 1 fan, will the cpu overheat? I don't live in cold weather, so i am a bit worried about that. What brands of fan will be good for this kind of config. I've seen people using a huge fan inside the case. does it cost a lot of noise?

Apple has came out apple mini computer will you think that it will convert lots of windows users to the mac platform? I was disappointed with the low configuartion though. The design was nice and sleek as usual. Kudos to apple for keeping such high standards...