Open fw.png in Photoshop

[rik ed]

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. 

[rayek.elfin · Accepted solution]

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

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

And save as a PSD file.

[Paul-M]

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 ...

[Graeme G]

Hey Paul, this is exactly what I need to do - but your link doesn't seem to take me to such a file. It appears to be just icons.

Can you help?

THANKS,

Graeme

[Paul-M]

Hi Graeme - I've updated the link

[Jason Lane - AEL QLD]

Hi Paul, thanks for offering a solution. We have many fireworks files to convert and this batch process will be very useful for us. Sorry but your linked solution opens a OneDrive zip folder which contains 4 files and I'm not sure where the commands sit in this file stucture:
dw_icon_3.icns
dw_icon_3.ico
fw_icon.icns
fw_icon.ico

Can you please confirm or re-post an alternative link to the command we should use?

[Paul-M]

Hi Jason,

Apologies, I posted wrong link ...... this is the correct link

Unzip and copy the 'Batch Convert' folder to your Fireworks 'Commands' folder. Restart Fireworks if it is already running .....Let me know if you need anymore help.

[Jason Lane - AEL QLD]

Fantastic, thanks so much Paul!

[Paul-M]

you're welcome....

[Nancy OShea]

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!

[zalel]

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