Product Description

Upgrade only; previous version required

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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11186 in Software
• Brand: Adobe
• Model: 38039949
• Released on: 2007-04-20
• Platforms: Mac OS X Intel, Mac OS X
• Format: DVD-ROM
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 3.00 pounds

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

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Note: This is the upgrade version of Adobe Fireworks CS3.

Accelerate web design and development with Adobe Fireworks CS3 Upgrade software, the ideal tool for creating and optimizing images for the web and 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 Photoshop CS3, Adobe Illustrator CS3, Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, and Adobe Flash CS3 Professional software.

New Adobe Fireworks CS3 dramatically accelerates web prototyping and web image design.

Rapidly Prototype and Design for the Web
New Adobe Fireworks CS3 dramatically accelerates web prototyping and web image design. Enjoy timesaving enhancements, new prototyping tools, and impressive integration with Adobe Photoshop CS3, Adobe Illustrator CS3, Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, Adobe Flash CS3 Professional, and Adobe Flex software.

New in Fireworks CS3

New Macintosh and Windows OS support
Design and develop on the platform of your choice. Adobe Fireworks CS3 is available for PowerPC and Intel based Macintosh computers as well as Windows XP and Windows Vista systems.

Efficient Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator integration
Import Photoshop (PSD) files while retaining hierarchical layers, layer effects, and blend modes. Save Fireworks (PNG) files back into Photoshop (PSD) format. Import Illustrator (AI) files while retaining graphic integrity, including layer, group, and color information.

Hierarchical layer organization
Organize and manage your prototypes with a new hierarchical layer structure, which is similar to the one in Adobe Photoshop, that enables you to easily organize web layers and pages.

Intelligent scaling
Intelligently scale buttons and graphic symbols (in vector or bitmap) with 9-slice scaling. Combine 9-slice scaling with the new Auto Shape library to accelerate website and application prototyping.

Multipage support
Use the new Pages panel to create multiple pages in a single document (PNG file), and share layers across multiple pages. Each page can contain its own slices, layers, frames, animations, and canvas settings, making it easy to simulate website flow in a prototype.

RIA layout prototyping
Prototype layouts for rich Internet applications in Fireworks, and then export them directly to Adobe Flex while retaining absolute positioning and styling.

Customizable assets
Jump-start your prototyping with a common library of frequently used graphic symbols, text symbols, and animations. Use the new Symbol Properties panel to customize symbol attributes.

Adobe Photoshop blend modes
Customize the appearance of your images with seven popular blend modes from Adobe Photoshop: dissolve, linear burn, linear dodge, vivid light, linear light, pin light, and hard mix.

Adobe Bridge integration
Enjoy a more efficient workflow with Adobe Bridge, which offers central access to project files and batch processing that can include multiple Adobe applications.

Streamlined Adobe Dreamweaver and Adobe Flash integration
Copy any object in Fireworks CS3 and paste it directly into Dreamweaver CS3. Create pop-up menus that can be saved as CSS and HTML. Export Fireworks (PNG) files directly to Flash CS3 while maintaining vectors, bitmaps, animations, and multistates, and then edit in Flash CS3.

Additional Features

Vector and bitmap editing
Create and edit vector and bitmap images, and import and edit native Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator files.

Image optimization
Optimize graphics for virtually any delivery scenario with preview, cross-platform gamma preview, selective JPEG compression, and a wide range of export controls.

Filter effects
Apply lighting effects, shadow effects, styles, and blend modes, including seven new blend modes from Photoshop, to add depth and character to text and symbols.

Common library
Jump-start your prototyping with a common library of graphic symbols, text symbols, and animations frequently used in web applications, forms, interfaces, and websites.

Customer Reviews

Will Not Upgrade Studio 8
Just wanted to give a heads up, According to adobe I'm not the first or last person to do this, This will not upgrade the bundle version of fireworks in studio 8, With all the confusion with the merger of the adobe and macromedia products if you upgrade to cs3 design premium and you want fireworks you have to buy a new stand alone copy.

Adobe will NOT LET you upgrade your Suite with this
I have been using Macromedia products for years and always purchased the Dreamweaver/Fireworks/Flash suites. I ALSO have been purchasing Adobe Photoshop Design CS Suite, then CS 2 suite, now CS3 Suite. Well now that Adobe has purchased Macromedia you have to make a choice. I already had to have the Design suite to get those programs so I purchased the Premium Design CS3 suite which also gave me Dreamweaver and Flash. I figured with as many serial numbers I had for everything, all I needed was the Fireworks Upgrade. WRONG -- Adobe will NOT let you upgrade this version of Fireworks with anything except a STANDALONE (not Suite where they make more money???) version.

It is a pitiful situation when two otherwise excellent companies get together and create something that is actually WORSE than the two separate entities.

I am not looking forward to now trying to switch this product out, but sometimes the simplest things are complicated by corporate greed and oversight.

THis SUCKS!!!!!
He's right. You can not upgrade Fireworks using your bundled package serial number. I can not explain how mad I am right now. Who has the stand alone version of fireworks MX, or MX 2004?? Not me, I have the bundled version, which I'm sure 99% of the people of there do to.