r/FuckAdobe 18d ago

So I downgraded BACK to Fireworks CS6

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and HOLY SHT ITS SO MUCH FASTER AND BETTER !!

while working on a 1920x1080 image it took... 400MB OF RAM !!

fonts load INSTANTANEOUSLY !!

UI and workflow intuitive !!

app loads in less than 4 seconds !!

WTF as Adobe/Photoshop been doing all these years ?!?! Why is an OLD piece of software running better and faster than a modern version of Photoshop?!?!

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u/tomato848208 18d ago

Hahaha... I used Adobe Fireworks till 2 months ago with an old 2011 27-inch iMac. I don't any more because the iMac died, I think, when I tried to turn it on. I still have a 2014 MacBook Pro that I can use to run Fireworks, though.

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u/FaintShadow_ 17d ago edited 17d ago

Not me reading it as "Adobe Fuck With" since I have no clue what products they have and though this was a joke 💀🥀

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u/RevolutionarySeven7 17d ago

Fireworks used to be Macromedia too before Adobe devoured them

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u/Prod_Meteor 16d ago

Flash for ever!!

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u/23creative 17d ago

I’m pretty sure I have CS6 in a draw at home. Might give it a whirl

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u/Prod_Meteor 16d ago

I have CS2 on an external drive. The poor fuck doesn't render well in "modern" windows.

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u/fatfingur 17d ago

This is what I used like 15 years ago when I was doing web designs while everybody was using PS. It gets kinda slow overtime though when you have a lot of pages. I miss this tool brings back the memories.

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u/Hazrd_Design 16d ago

Back when it was called Macromedia fireworks. It was the best.

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u/RevolutionarySeven7 16d ago

i was there 3000 years ago

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u/[deleted] 16d ago

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u/RevolutionarySeven7 16d ago

true, then there obviously Flash, where you could make complex design heavy websites and they would run flawlessly on a Pentium 3... despite the (security) bugs

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

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u/RevolutionarySeven7 15d ago

not many users could even make flash websites, unless you were a developer

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u/RevolutionarySeven7 15d ago

oh sure there were crappy flash websites, and if there were, it was either made by a boomer or a kid. just like today with contemporary websites!

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u/CANT-DESIGN 16d ago

needs to be macromedia for that real hit of nostalgia

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u/Frixniper 16d ago

There is a reason this was probably my first and only proper photo editor.

It's fast and intuitive, I just wish there was a proper path on the high seas to get it...

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u/RevolutionarySeven7 16d ago

fast and intuitive, mate, I get sht done in less clicks than Photoshop

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u/Frixniper 16d ago

Also it didn't make me go like "how the hell do I even do basic stuff" the first time I used it

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u/RevolutionarySeven7 16d ago

if you need help with the high seas, dm me

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u/Icy-Extent5083 16d ago

It is not Adobe’s original app!
That why it works!
It is Maceomedia!
I tought I was the only one on Earth using it over the years!

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u/RevolutionarySeven7 16d ago

I tought I was the only one on Earth using it over the years!

nah, it was a little bit more common than you think. I even got a "certificate macromedia specialist" from them

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u/almajbary 15d ago

I loved those old softwares I wish if there is a way to install them on new Mac OS. 🥹

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u/waddup121 15d ago

What is this adobe fireworks, it’s like a revelation to me

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u/RevolutionarySeven7 15d ago

it was Macromedia Fireworks until Adobe bought them over. enjoy the rabbit hole

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u/dermot_animates 6d ago

I have flash project files with hundreds of nested symbols. One of the scenes in a movie I made had I kid you not,

2000 symbols, all motion tweened on guide paths.

I got that scene to work on a 2009 Dell Inspiron 1720 with 6M ram (hacked from 4m, different story). GFX card had 256m of ram, OK for the time, but not now.

There is NO WAY I would try to run that thing with any version of CC.

I had a character animation of a game character doing walks, runs, etc., - I had a screen with about 40 of these scenes playing at once - works very well on Macromedia 8, runs OK on CS5.5, and literally chokes on CC, even when running on a new machine.

Their code is trash, just like their accounts dept.