Making custom skins for your app

[Thomas McGrath III]

Josh,
I do use Fireworks and Flash and Illustrator and Photoshop and have  
been using some of them for over seventeen years.  I make heavy use  
of key shortcuts and features in all of them and get a lot of power  
out of each.

I would say that for web based buttons that Fireworks is what I would  
use but for GUI design there is no way I would use either Fireworks  
or Illustrator but instead would be doing some amazing things in  
Photoshop.

You see, I am not putting Fireworks down and do agree that it has  
it's place especially for web based things but to say that Photoshop  
is only great for photo retouching then you miss out on all of the  
powerful features and things that Photoshop can do and do better than  
most software.

To use your analogy using Fireworks is like using a vice grip but as  
a vice grip and using Photoshop is like using a whole set of tools  
and having all four applications is like having a great big tool box  
in my opinion.

Thanks

Tom


On Apr 21, 2006, at 8:02 PM, Josh Mellicker wrote:

>
> Photoshop is great for photo retouching, but for web and GUI work  
> it is like using vice grips for a hammer- they are "doable", but  
> not the right tool for the job.
>
> Give it a wack, you'll never go back!
>
>
>> , but then Photoshop can do so much more than Fireworks overall  
>> that choosing between them is more of a comfort level than feature  
>> decision.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tom
>>