The Fireworks CS5 Software from Adobe is a Windows application that helps you create interfaces and graphics for web sites, handheld devices, kiosks, and embedded displays. You'll be able to create a website based on wireframe interface templates with ease. Add text, symbols, vector and bitmap images to help bring your web site to life. You can even export your mock-up as a PDF, perfect for client review and approval.
Fireworks can also create web graphics with transparency, allowing you to better integrate them with your design. Files are optimized for minimal file size and maximum quality, improving page load times. You can export them in the PNG-8 file format, ensuring cross-platform support and true transparency in any web browser.
Features
Easy-to-Use Design Tools for Screen-Based Design
Create and edit vector and bitmap images, or import and modify native Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator files. Changes remain editable at any time, and final output is optimized for display resolutions
Improved Performance
Work faster with significant performance enhancements, including greater control over pixel placement of design elements, improved file opening and saving, updated symbol operation, and quicker bitmap and vector operations
Optimization and Scaling Tools
Optimize graphics for a wide variety of screen types with preview, selective JPEG compression, and comprehensive export controls. Intelligently scale buttons and graphic symbols with 9-slice scaling to accelerate website and application prototyping
CSS and HTML Export
Design complete web pages in a robust graphic environment and then export standards-compliant, CSS-based layouts -- with external style sheets -- in one step. Integrate foreground and background graphics with distinct slice types, and utilize repeating images
Improved Type Handling
Produce exceptional type designs with the enhanced Adobe text engine. Copy and paste double-byte characters from Illustrator and Photoshop without loss of fidelity. Float text inside a path, and take advantage of many other improvements
Sophisticated Prototyping
Design interactive layouts for websites and rich Internet applications (RIAs). Reduce development time by exporting multipage, clickable website comps as standards-compliant, CSS-based layouts, and bring RIA prototypes into the Adobe AIR runtime without writing code
Intelligent Integration
Import Photoshop and Illustrator files while maintaining color matching, element fidelity, and editing capability. Export Adobe Fireworks designs into applications in the Adobe Flash software family for advanced interactivity design. Copy and paste objects between Fireworks and Adobe Dreamweaver
Effortless Client Collaboration
Demo with two-way video communication in real-time online meetings with the Adobe ConnectNow feature in Acrobat.com, part of Adobe CS Live online services. CS Live services are complimentary for a limited time. Also, generate clickable PDF files or interactive HTML comps for review, and create Adobe AIR prototypes to run on any platform
Customizable and Reusable Assets
Jump-start your design process with the Common Library of graphic symbols, form elements, text symbols, and animations. Design your own custom symbols and styles for continued rapid design and prototyping
Developer Productivity Tools
Save time by quickly creating assets and optimizing images for use in development projects. Rely on Fireworks for batch processing of graphical elements
Web Design Projects
Device Central Integration
Start mobile projects with confidence using device profiles in Adobe Device Central. Choose templates for mobile, HDTV, or other consumer devices with the correct screen size and resolution already configured. Preview in Device Central
Design Templates
Save frequently used projects as templates to share with your design team
Customizable and Reusable Assets
Get your designs flowing with the Common Library of graphic symbols, form elements, text symbols, and animations. Design your own rich symbols and styles. Export FXG directly into Adobe Flash Professional
Adobe Swatch Exchange Support
Match colors precisely with designs from other Adobe graphics software via Adobe Swatch Exchange (ASE). Import an ASE file from Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, or Kuler, the web-hosted color theme application, to develop compatible designs
Improved Type Handling
Produce exceptional type designs with the enhanced Adobe text engine. Copy and paste double-byte characters from Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop without loss of fidelity. Float text inside a path, and take advantage of many other improvements
Supported Workflows with Adobe Flash Applications
Export objects, pages, or entire documents to applications in the Adobe Flash software family to develop interactivity. The XML-based FXG export format helps ensure your rich application creations are precisely converted and ready for implementation
Easy-to-Use Tools for Screen-Based Design
Create and edit vector and bitmap images, or import and modify native Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator files. Changes remain editable at any time, and final output is optimized for display resolutions
Improved Performance
Work faster with significant performance enhancements, including greater control over pixel placement of design elements, improved file opening and saving, updated symbol operation, and quicker bitmap and vector operations
Web Applications
Pixel-Precise Rendering
Keep designs crisp on destination screens of virtually any size with advanced rendering. Improved definition means objects in vector and bitmap modes appear sharper, even when converted from one mode to the other
Sophisticated Prototyping
Design interactive layouts for websites without writing code. Reduce development time by exporting multipage, clickable website comps as standards-compliant, CSS-based layouts
Effortless Client Collaboration
Within Acrobat.com -- part of Adobe CS Live online services -- conduct online meetings with two-way video communication using Adobe ConnectNow. CS Live services are complimentary for a limited time. Also, use Fireworks to generate interactive PDF or HTML comps for review, complete with clickable links
Improved Performance
Work faster with significant performance enhancements, including greater control over pixel placement of design elements, improved file opening and saving, updated symbol operation, and quicker bitmap and vector operations
Developer Productivity Tools
Save development time by creating assets quickly and optimizing them for multiple projects. Rely on Adobe Fireworks for batch processing of graphical elements
Optimization and Scaling Tools
Optimize graphics for a wide variety of screen types with preview, selective JPEG compression, and comprehensive export controls. Intelligently scale buttons and graphic symbols with 9-slice scaling to accelerate website and application prototyping
Adobe Device Central Integration
Start mobile projects with confidence using device profiles in Adobe Device Central. Choose templates for mobile, HDTV, or other consumer devices with the correct screen size and resolution already configured. Preview in Device Central
CSS and HTML Export
Design complete web pages in a robust graphic environment and then export standards-compliant, CSS-based layouts -- with external style sheets -- in one step. Integrate foreground and background graphics with distinct slice types, and utilize repeating images
Intelligent Integration
Import Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator files while maintaining color matching, element fidelity, and editing capability. Export Fireworks designs into applications in the Adobe Flash software family for advanced interactivity design. Copy and paste objects between Fireworks and Dreamweaver
What's New in Fireworks CS5
Extensive Performance Enhancements
Improve efficiency with faster performance, an updated graphic toolset, and greater control over pixel placement
Pixel-Precise Rendering
Pixel-perfect rendering keeps designs crisp on screens of almost any size
Support Workflows with Adobe Flash Applications
Export objects, pages, or entire documents to Adobe Flash applications via FXG to develop interactivity
Design Templates
Save frequently used projects as templates to share with your design team
Adobe Swatch Exchange Support
Match colors precisely with designs from other Adobe graphics software with Adobe Swatch Exchange
Adobe Device Central Integration
Start mobile projects with confidence using device profiles in Adobe Device Central
Extensibility Improvements
Customize scripts for exporting, batch operations, and FXG formats with the expanded extensibility API