Ben Hayes

Recent Blog Comments By Ben Hayes

• Fireworks CS3 Review Over On FireworksZone

  Posted on May 27, 2007 at 3:52 AM

  It's true PS vector tools are poor, and not very easy to use, but then again you might expect that, since it's not designed for vector work. Try some photo manipulation work in FW and you'll soon see the great strengths of PS! One thing that's strange about CS3 is that FW doesn't come bundled with ... read more »

• Fireworks CS3 Review Over On FireworksZone

  Posted on Apr 25, 2007 at 8:48 AM

  When you first draw a rectangle in PS there appears to be no anti-aliasing because it draws to the nearest pixel. Just try resizing that rectangle and (under high zoom levels) you will easily see the anit-aliasing kick in. The result is that, if you use shape tools in PS, including rectangles, roun... read more »

• Fireworks CS3 Review Over On FireworksZone

  Posted on Apr 24, 2007 at 2:04 PM

  @JDonner You quite obviously never intensively used Photoshop Ben, otherwise you wouldn't make comments like that. OK, so if you draw a rectangle with the shape tool in Photoshop, then zoom right in, you will see the edges are anti-aliased. Can you tell me a way to turn off this anti-aliasing? ... read more »

• Fireworks CS3 Review Over On FireworksZone

  Posted on Apr 21, 2007 at 9:48 AM

  Fireworks has more pixel-level control than Photoshop. For example, if you draw a shape in Photoshop, there is no way to stop the edges from being anti-aliased. FW is designed with pixels in mind.... read more »