Adobe Fireworks CS3

With the merging of Adobe and Macromedia, Fireworks is now part of Adobe's Creative Suite CS3 package. Fireworks CS3 is available for Intel or PowerPC based Macintosh computers, as well as for Windows XP and Windows Vista systems. Some of its features include:

• Create and edit vector and bitmap images, and import and edit native Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator files.
• Import Photoshop (PSD) files while retaining hierarchical layers, layer effects, and blend modes. Save Adobe Fireworks (PNG) files back into Photoshop (PSD) format. Import Illustrator (AI) files while retaining graphic integrity, including layer, group, and color information.
• Prototype interactive layouts for websites and rich Internet applications. Export website prototypes to Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 and RIA prototypes to Adobe Flex.
• Use the new Pages panel to create multiple pages in a single document (PNG file), and share layers across multiple pages. Each page can contain its own slices, layers, frames, animations, and canvas settings, making it easy to simulate website flow in a prototype.
• Apply lighting effects, shadow effects, styles, and blend modes, including seven new blend modes from Photoshop, to add depth and character to text and symbols.
• Intelligently scale buttons and graphic symbols (in vector or bitmap) with 9-slice scaling.
• Copy any object in Fireworks CS3 and paste it directly into Dreamweaver CS3. Create pop-up menus that can be saved as CSS and HTML. Export Fireworks (PNG) files directly to Flash CS3 Professional while maintaining vectors, bitmaps, animations, and multistates, and then edit in Flash CS3.

Adobe Fireworks CS3 Upgrade requires a licensed version of Macromedia Fireworks 8, MX 2004, or MX on the same platform as this purchase.

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