Adobe is moving forward with the process
of integrating its apps with those it inherited from Macromedia. You have an opportunity to influence how that
will go.Over at Abobe Blogs, Photoshop Product Manager John Nack invites your input on Fireworks and how to integrate it with Photoshop. If you're not familiar with Fireworks, it's best known as a Web graphics editing program, much like Adobe ImageReady.
Nack promises that Adobe is not going to "rip out the Web features we've developed in Photoshop. . . Rather than crippling Photoshop for the many people who use it all or some of the time for Web design, let's make Fireworks stand out by adding kick-ass, never-before-seen features. (Of course it's to identify these that we need your help.)"
Here are the specific questions Nack poses:
- If we could do one thing to improve the process of making graphics for the Web, what would it be?
- Are there tasks (e.g. rapid prototyping of Web and app interfaces) at which we should target Fireworks more than Photoshop? (Or, to take the other side, would you rather there be a single über-app with a customizable interface?)
- Do we need to improve integration between Fireworks and Photoshop (e.g. better file format compatibility, Jump To), or does it work well enough?
- What about compatibility with Dreamweaver? What tasks could/should we improve?
- Are there interface elements or ideas from one app that we should emulate in the other?








1. Allow Flash and Flex developers to build internal widgets and special tools for use within the authoring tools, such as cursor following pallets etc.
Posted at 11:36AM on Mar 6th 2006 by Dave Matthews