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velocity77
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November 13, 2023
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PLEASE bring back Adobe Fireworks

  • November 13, 2023
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I am SO UNHAPPY with Adobe these days and I used to love the company. Now it has ruined its good reputation.


Why buy a company like Macromedia that makes great software just to kill it? This is disgusting. Fireworks was fast and user-friendly. Now there is NOTHING that replaces it. Fireworks had just the features that web designers needed to quickly edit photographs and simple graphics for web or any digital use. There was a great batch process, very useful to web designers. It was not cluttered with extremely complicated and unnecessary features that web designers do not need - like Photoshop is. Adobe claimed there was an "overlap" between Photoshop and Fireworks. So, simplfiy Photoshop for photographers and restore Fireworks for web designers. I have learned Photoshop a million times and it is still extraordinarily slow, unbelievably frustrating, clunky and really UNINTUITIVE. It takes hours to do the simplest thing. 

Adobe is stuck in the past world of print design. It has made the fatal mistake of NOT LISTENING to its customers.

Now I hear Adobe is canceling XD. Obviously Adobe has totally missed the boat on web designers and only cares about high end graphic design which will probably be replaced by AI anyway. Get a grip Adobe!! The market is for people who don't want to spend hours on a simple task or pay gobs of money!!!!

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    Neomatrix
    Participant
    February 20, 2024

    Hello guys!

    Fireworks was one of the most innovative web image layout programs ever created. It was simply unique... it was light years ahead of everything else. Fast, intuitive and with plenty of extensions... Photoshop?... it had many plugins that it even shared with Fireworks... but Photoshop was aimed at photographers and graphic designers and Fireworks was aimed at content creators. Nothing was comparable to that great program called Fireworks.

      Nancy OShea
      Community Expert
      Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      February 20, 2024

      @Neomatrix,

      Thanks for the Fireworks obituary. 😊

       

       

      Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
        drkoolcat
        drkoolcat
        Participant
        January 3, 2024

        100% agree - likely bought to get rid of the competition and hate it for being better. Some tyrant at the top annoying many for no good reason..  Are you listening Google? Google should do what it did with Google docs to Word.. give us a choice...

         

        Fireworks is amazing.

          Nancy OShea
          Community Expert
          Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
          Community Expert
          January 7, 2024

          Fireworks is obsolete. 

          • It can't open RAW files.
          • It can't create WebP files.
          • It can't create AVIF files.
          • Legacy software that's outlived its usefulness is of no value to anyone in 2024. 

          It's time to put it behind you and move on...

           

           

           

          Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
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          lukalumen
          Inspiring
          January 7, 2024
          It's outdated for sure. But there's no replacement for it with Adobe
          products. And it's enough for any quick work.

          I had to go with Affinity Designer in the end.
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            Community Expert
            L e n aCommunity Expert
            Community Expert
            November 21, 2023

            You're not alone in feeling this lack of ergonomics and flexibility when it comes to a tool such as Fw & its extensions, for UI/UX management for the web.

             

            Any way most of threads talks about missing Fw https://community.adobe.com/t5/fireworks/ct-p/ct-fireworks?page=1&sort=latest_replies&filter=all&lang=all&tabid=discussions

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            But today I'm not able to start the program because it says I need to renew my subscription. I obviously have a subscription...

            Is anyone else experiencing this?

            By @lukalumen

             

            A few days ago, @ForsakenOutlaw57FF asked the same question than yours, you'll find it by going Fireworks Asking for Serial # - Says Trial Period Expired

             

            I'm thinking of setting up a series of articles on https://puce-et-media.com (if I can find some time aside) and why not opening a forum if this one offered by Adobe were to close.

             

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              lukalumen
              Inspiring
              November 21, 2023

              I've been using Fireworks all this time because it's exactly what I need. I don't need Photoshop, Illustrator or InDesign most of the time.

              It's still been available in the CC all this time. But today I'm not able to start the program because it says I need to renew my subscription. I obviously have a subscription...

               

              Is anyone else experiencing this?

                rayek.elfin
                rayek.elfin
                Legend
                November 14, 2023

                Yeah, it is unfortunate Fireworks was discontinued back in 2012/2013. Wow! A decade's flown by since then.

                 

                I do understand your frustration (I was there myself). No-one at Adobe listens in here, though: you are screaming into the void. Also, the web has evolved in the past decade, and Fireworks isn't really capable enough anymore to accommodate current requirements in my opinion.

                 

                Also agree with you that Photoshop is rather awkward for web graphics.

                 

                We can but lament the loss of Fireworks here, and some of use continue to use it if possible. Adobe doesn't care about the small segment of FW users who complain.

                 

                Sad, but it is what it is.

                 

                And now it's going to get their grubby hands on Figma and end XD. While I welcome the end of XD (it's horrible in my opinion), I fear that Adobe will effectively kill off or cripple Figma as well and become the undoing of Figma. This is based on the long well-known history of Adobe ruining good software. Just look at Fireworks, Animate CC (Flash), Freehand, and quite a few other victims.

                 

                Time will only tell if Figma will survive Adobe. The odds are against it.

                  drkoolcat
                  drkoolcat
                  Participant
                  January 3, 2024

                  Freehand was amazing also.. wow.. old memories.  

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