Fireworks offers one of the fastest ways to produce virtually any type of image or GIF animation for Web pages, from simple ad banners to more complicated animated image maps. The program is easy to use and is loaded with special effects.
Fireworks truly offers a rich environment for creating Web graphics.
These include drop shadows, bevels, embosses, and glows. Editability extends even to properties such as image maps, which retain their associated URLs when reshaped or moved. Fireworks also features a text window which provides capabilities expected of high-end illustration applications, including precise control over kerning, scaling, and leading as well as the ability to attach text and even paragraphs to paths. Text, like any Fireworks object, is always editable. Fireworks imports BMP, GIF, JPG, PICT, PNG, FreeHand, Illustrator, Photoshop, and RTF files.