Making custom skins for your app

Thomas McGrath III 3mcgrath at adelphia.net
Mon Apr 24 16:46:12 EDT 2006


I forgot, the most important difference is that I work with high  
resolution tif files and then optimize for web/application use.  
Fireworks is designed more for gif, jpg, and png. PS allows for more  
control for higher resolution images.

Tom

On Apr 24, 2006, at 4:23 PM, Thomas McGrath III wrote:

> 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
> \
> 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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