Posted by Bernhard Sturm on 04/02/07 06:33

Kevin Scholl wrote:
>
> I've used both rather extensively (though I admittedly prefer PS/IR,
> perhaps because I used it first). I suppose my wonder with your examples
> above are with the classification of a "smallish" file being 800x600. I
> was expecting something more akin to, say, an interface button, maybe
> 120x30 or something like that. 800x600 is hardly "smallish" IMHO.

but 800x600 is exactly the kind of image size a webdesigner is working
on a daily base, and this is the realm of FW. I made the experience (and
I work on both tools) that from a workflow perspective FW rules out PS
by a lot of things. Somebody mentioned doing print AND webdesign with
the same tool, which is not a very good advice as you might (and I do)
produce high quality (e.g. for printing purposes) images or graphics on
Freehand/PS and then transfer them to FW for the webdesign task. I
_never_ work on exactly the same image material for print and webdesign
because webdesign is not the same media as print. This is the reason why
you shouldn't do everything in one single tool, IMHO.
But this discussion is a bit obsolete as Adobe will drop IR in favour of
FW for their future web-suites.

I was only wondering why so many seem to ignore the fact, that in terms
of workflow FW is much easier to handle as PS (I am talking about web
issues here).

just my two cents
bernhard

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