Making custom skins for your app

[Thomas McGrath III]

Josh and Jim,

I have been using PS for many years (actually since 1. release) and I  
really make use of the scripting built-in. Most people seem to assume  
PS is just for Photo retouching but I actually hardly ever do  
retouching now a days and yet use PS on a daily basis.

I would say that Fireworks is heavy on the web support side of vector/ 
bitmap manipulation and Illustrator/Freehand is heavy on the vector  
side and Photoshop is heavy on the bitmap side with vector support  
built in.

Fireworks does have some nice tools if you are designing web like  
interfaces. But if you are doing application or prototype interfaces  
I still prefer Photoshop.

Short list:
PS has better layer effects.
Fireworks effects are rather limited. (but doable for web work)
FW has better vector tools and effects.
PS has more precise drawing tools.
FW has more text tools.


Tom
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On Apr 24, 2006, at 3:46 PM, Jim Ault wrote:

> On 4/24/06 11:46 AM, "Josh Mellicker" <josh at dvcreators.net> wrote:
>> I'm really not trying to argue but provide specific examples of why I
>> switched to Fireworks... can you provide the top 3 or 5 specific
>> reasons you prefer Photoshop for GUI design?
>>
>> Not to belabor the point, but we are generating a lot of graphics
>> right now for tons of courses and the info could be helpful.
>
> The reasons I use Photoshop (and have not really looked at  
> FireWorks) are
> that PSh has Actions (sequences), is very AppleScriptable, and I  
> have setup
> collections of instruction sets in Rev to tell PSh to:
>
> process incoming camera images into destination folder sets
> combine these images into a sequence of related images
> apply the various corrections to the camera images
> by selecting from lists in Rev, the Photoshop app opens, processes,  
> renames
> and outputs the results, then Rev uploads to the web area I choose.
>
> I realize that this is a very specific use of Rev-AS-Photoshop, but  
> it is
> the reason I chose Rev in the first place.  PShop will crank along  
> for about
> 8-10 minutes on a Mac G5 duo 2.0 mHz doing what would take me about  
> 1.5
> hours manually, not including mistakes and mis-steps.
>
> For your project, it is possible that the Actions & Sequences in  
> Photoshop
> may get you where you want to go without any other scripting.
>
> I would like to hear if Fireworks has similar capability, as I am most
> involved in camera/jpg image reproduction for web content.  The use of
> rollover buttons I do in Flash on a timeline that allows sophisticated
> transitions and states, so simple rollovers are easy, but not often
> required.
>
> I am always looking for more good tools for my tool box.
>
> Jim Ault
> Las Vegas
>
>
>
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