Open fw.png in Photoshop

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June 23, 2021
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Does anyone here have any pull with Adobe?

I'm in the licence loop, I've lost Fireworks completely on my work machine, I can't even uninstall it gracefully anymore. I've managed to keep it running on my home machine which I'm remoting to from the office when I need to. I get that Adobe is killing off FW and I get they will never make it available freeware, that's just bad economics.

But how cool would it be if Photoshop would simply honour the FW.PNG layers.

Like Fireworks honoured PSD layers.

How do we all petition to get this on the wish list?

I have over 20 years of native Fireworks files.

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Correct answer rayek.elfin

PhotoPea (an online Photoshop clone) opens layered Fireworks files.

Open your file at https://www.photopea.com/

And save as a PSD file.

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zalel

Participant

Yeah, me too. Please post an update to your query, if a workaround ever appears…

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

Does anyone here have any pull with Adobe?

But how cool would it be if Photoshop would simply honour the FW.PNG layers.

How do we all petition to get this on the wish list?

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Hi @rik ed,

No. We are product users just like you with no special influence over what Adobe does. I think this is highly unlikely for many reasons. But feel free to submit your feature request where the Photoshop engineers will see it. As they say, "nothing ventured, nothing gained."

https://feedback.photoshop.com/

Good luck!

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

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Paul-M

Legend

If you still have access to a copy of Fireworks, this command will bulk convert FW PNGs to PSDs.

1) Unzip and copy the 'Batch Convert' folder to your Fireworks Commands folder (C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Fireworks CS6\Configuration\Commands\ on Windows machines).

2) Put all the FW PNGs you want to convert in a single folder

3) Launch Fireworks and choose: Commands => Batch Convert => Batch Convert FW PNG to PSD

3) From the dialogue Choose 'Custom' and select your FW PNGs (PSDs will be saved in the same folder.

I agree that Photopea is also quite useful as well ...

Paul-M - Community Expert