There is a lingering sentiment among veteran designers that Adobe never truly understood what they had. They saw Fireworks as a redundancy; users saw it as a revolution. The death of Fireworks CS6 forced the design community to modernize, eventually leading us to the cloud-based collaborative tools of today.
However, even modern tools lack certain specificities of Fireworks. Fireworks’ ability to handle complex bitmap manipulation inside a vector workflow is still unmatched. In Figma, you often have to jump to Photoshop to do serious pixel editing, save the image, and re-import it. In Fireworks CS6, you simply switched modes.
There is a lingering sentiment among veteran designers that Adobe never truly understood what they had. They saw Fireworks as a redundancy; users saw it as a revolution. The death of Fireworks CS6 forced the design community to modernize, eventually leading us to the cloud-based collaborative tools of today.
However, even modern tools lack certain specificities of Fireworks. Fireworks’ ability to handle complex bitmap manipulation inside a vector workflow is still unmatched. In Figma, you often have to jump to Photoshop to do serious pixel editing, save the image, and re-import it. In Fireworks CS6, you simply switched modes.