Posts Tagged using fireworks

Should You Learn Photoshop or Fireworks? (and more!)

In this week’s question time I talk about whether it’s best to learn Photoshop or Fireworks, what software I use to create these Question Time videos and I offer advice for designers who are just out of school and are looking for design work.

This week’s questions

Hi Chris, I would love to hear your thoughts on the various design programs. I started out using Fireworks (Macromedia) for designing and just can’t get my head around Adobe Photoshop. However it seems that every designer in the world is using PS.

Hi Chris, I was just wondering what software you use to make/edit your ‘question time’ videos?

I’ve just got out of school, do you have any advice for someone wanting to go out there on their own? How did you get started?

Interesting design links

8 Things They Don’t Tell You About Being a Web Designer

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Improve Your Workflow Using Symbols and Adobe Fireworks CS4’s Multi-Page Functionality

You may remember a while back when I demonstrated how to design a fashion website using Adobe Fireworks CS4. Today, I will build upon that tutorial and show how to create a secondary page using Fireworks’ multi-page functionality. I will then demonstrate how to improve your workflow by demonstrating how to use symbols to make global changes to this document.

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