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January 07, 2005
How to pick a web graphics software tool
In my earlier post I talked about the main problem with web graphics tools - that they are mostly NOT web graphics tools!
Almost all graphics tools you come across on the net are for photo editing, and if you ask "how can I create a simmple banner for site X" the answer will be: create a canvas, add a layer, use the drawing tool to make an outline, use the fill tool to add a fill color, use the stroke brush to add a border, then add a filter... blah blah blah - suprisingly complicated.
In that post I failed to mention the most important and probably the best web graphics tool on the market: Macromedia Fireworks. I have now decided to go for this tool.
Fireworks is a vector graphcis application which means that it is excellent and drawing simple shapes: lines, curves, colored rectangles etc. Believe me as an entrepeneur (not a web designer) that is all you need. Fireworks also lets you import photos and do basic manipulation on them while adding them to your banner or button or whatever.
These guys understand what it takes to design a web page graphically and there's no excess time spent on filters, tints, photo effects and other nonsense that doesn't pay the web marketer's bills.
Fireworks is the top pick if you want to avoid wasting time on web graphics software. Go get it.
Posted by onelukey at January 7, 2005 05:38 PM
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