Get top-quality design results. Take creative control with vector and bitmap editing in an integrated environment.

Produce great-looking, highly optimized files. Make graphics look their best under any delivery scenario with optimization features like Export Preview and Selective JPG Compression. Optimize Fireworks files from within Dreamweaver.

Quickly create sophisticated web navigation. Automatically generate graphics and JavaScript for buttons, interactive interfaces, and pop-up menus by using wizards.

Enhance websites with graphical text. Make text more readable with a system anti-aliasing option, or, control text appearance even further with the custom anti-aliasing option.

Deliver more realistic photos and animations. Easily create the illusion of motion with motion blur Live Effects. Touch up photos with the Replace Color and Red Eye Removal tools.

Supercharged Performance
Fireworks provides a complete professional toolset for rapid production and easy updates. Reduce design and development time, even when working with large images.

Work and export faster. Speed workflow in a streamlined, intuitive user interface. Manipulate large images, edit text, and complete other processor-intensive tasks much faster. Automatically output specific file formats from Fireworks to Macromedia Flash, Dreamweaver, Macromedia FreeHand, Macromedia Director, and third-party graphics and HTML packages with one click.

Design more efficiently. Select the right brush, texture, or fill pattern by using the Property inspector’s graphical previews. Automatically save GIF and JPG files in their original formats.

Decrease production time for repetitive graphics. Automatically create repetitive graphics by dynamically linking to XML content. Save settings and specify output file names in source XML data through the Data-Driven Graphics wizard’s simplified user interface.

Seamless Cross-Product Workflow
Work effectively with your design or development team, thanks to broad support for all major graphics formats, HTML editors, and cross-product workflow across Macromedia and third-party tools.

Share files across graphics applications. Easily share files between Macromedia Flash and FreeHand, and Adobe® Photoshop®, and Illustrator®. Export SWF files and open Fireworks files directly within Macromedia Flash. Open, edit, and export Photoshop graphics while retaining layers, masks, and text properties.

Save time with Roundtrip® editing. Signature Roundtrip editing between Fireworks and Dreamweaver handles server-side code and nested tables, delivering a smoother workflow.

Collaborate easily with team members. Move files easily between graphics applications, including Dreamweaver, Macromedia Flash, FreeHand, Photoshop, and Illustrator. Avoid overwriting shared files by using the same Check-In/Check-Out function as in Dreamweaver and Macromedia Flash. Upload files to a remote server with one click using built-in FTP.

Windows
600 MHz Intel Pentium III processor or equivalent
Windows 98 SE (4.10.2222 A), Windows 2000, or Windows XP
128 MB RAM (256 MB recommended)
275 MB available disk space

Macintosh
500 MHz PowerPC G3 processor
Mac OS X 10.2.6 and later, 10.3
128 MB RAM (256 MB recommended)
215 MB available disk space