Adobe Fireworks is a graphics program developed especially for the creation of web based graphics. 

Fireworks allow the greatest amount of control with ease of use and power. Some of the features are necessary that are well adapted into the program are layers, spe- cial effects, the ability to use Photoshop plug-ins, and much more. 

Some of the most unique and powerful features of Fireworks lay in the exporting of graphics which traditionally had to be handled by a third party piece of software for viable COMPRESSION. Fireworks ALLOWS the creation and editing of animated GIF files, JPG files, and the new Internet standard file PNG (Portable Network Graph- ics). 

Another powerful area of the Fireworks program is that all parts of the image are editable at any time. This has never been done in a graphics program before. Basi- cally what this means is that if you get all the way through finishing an image and decide you don’t like a certain area, it’s not a problem. Anything can be changed at any time. 

For example if you make a spelling mistake in some of the text on an image you can click on it and change it around. This could be compared to automatically cre- ating a layer for every single thing in an image so that it can be edited at all times WITHOUT affecting the rest of the graphic. 

As well as it all time edibility, Fireworks also has real-time effects. This means that if you want to experiment with a bevel, you play around with it and instantly see how the change would affect the image as a whole. (Some others effects are DROP shadow, emboss, glow, and more). 

You can also create JavaScript Rollovers, ANIMATIONS and optimize your images for use on the internet, create image maps, batch process your graphics and much more. Fireworks also have a great Export Preview window that shows how your graphics will look like in different formats and in different settings before you save them. The number of features in Fireworks is simply unmatched in any graphics program. 

A minor setback with this program is that the constant edibility and real-time ef- fects take up memory. When you have windows running, 32 MB of RAM on your system, Fireworks still sometimes uses about 5mb of that RAM.

Adobe Fireworks is a graphics program developed especially for the creation of web based graphics. 

Fireworks allow the greatest amount of control with ease of use and power. Some of the features are necessary that are well adapted into the program are layers, spe- cial effects, the ability to use Photoshop plug-ins, and much more. 

Some of the most unique and powerful features of Fireworks lay in the exporting of graphics which traditionally had to be handled by a third party piece of software for viable compression. Fireworks allows the creation and editing of animated GIF files, JPG files, and the new Internet standard file PNG (Portable Network Graph- ics). 

Another powerful area of the Fireworks program is that all parts of the image are editable at any time. This has never been done in a graphics program before. Basi- cally what this means is that if you get all the way through finishing an image and decide you don’t like a certain area, it’s not a problem. Anything can be changed at any time. 

For example if you make a spelling mistake in some of the text on an image you can click on it and change it around. This could be compared to automatically cre- ating a layer for every single thing in an image so that it can be edited at all times without affecting the rest of the graphic. 

As well as it all time edibility, Fireworks also has real-time effects. This means that if you want to experiment with a bevel, you play around with it and instantly see how the change would affect the image as a whole. (Some others effects are drop shadow, emboss, glow, and more). 

You can also create JavaScript Rollovers, animations and optimize your images for use on the internet, create image maps, batch process your graphics and much more. Fireworks also have a great Export Preview window that shows how your graphics will look like in different formats and in different settings before you save them. The number of features in Fireworks is simply unmatched in any graphics program. 

A minor setback with this program is that the constant edibility and real-time ef- fects take up memory. When you have windows running, 32 MB of RAM on your system, Fireworks still sometimes uses about 5mb of that RAM.