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been extended to give designers even greater control. Users can now export<br />
images using a mix of compression types, for example JPEG for photographic<br />
areas of the image and GIF for parts with text and flat areas of color.<br />
Designers can use separate adaptive palettes for different areas of a<br />
graphic and designate any region as a button rollover.</p>
<p>* WebSnap adaptive palette for small, high-fidelity images: This new<br />
palette option combines the strengths of adaptive and "browser-safe"<br />
compression formats, producing images that display cleanly on both 8 bit<br />
and true color displays, yet download fast.</p>
<p>* Color correction and effects filters for image retouching: Fireworks now<br />
features a collection of filters to accomplish useful imaging operations<br />
including adjustment of levels, addition of noise, and conversion to<br />
monochrome.</p>
<p>* Tighter integration with Macromedia Dreamweaver 1.2 for streamlined site<br />
design: Fireworks is engineered to work smoothly with Dreamweaver,<br />
Macromedia's popular visual Web authoring tool. Developers can now use<br />
Fireworks as an image editor and have changes automatically reflected in<br />
Dreamweaver pages.</p>
<p>In addition to the new features listed above, Fireworks offers a host of<br />
asked-for improvements including the ability to create alpha masks, support<br />
for numeric transformations, context sensitive menus, performance<br />
enhancements, and more.</p>
<p>About Fireworks</p>
<p>Fireworks was created from the ground up to provide a unified environment<br />
for producing Web graphics and to serve as an alternative to the current,<br />
multi-product workflow. Fireworks offers Internet-aware innovations such as<br />
a visual export preview window with dynamically updated display of file<br />
size and download time, and the ability to easily create image maps. A<br />
slicing feature allows users to break up images for faster downloads, and a<br />
button generation feature dramatically simplifies creation of interactive<br />
Web pages by generating up, down, over, and hit states for buttons, plus<br />
JavaScript code. Other Fireworks functions provide extensive control over<br />
compression and playback of GIF animations.</p>
<p>Unlike other products targeting the Web-graphics category, Fireworks<br />
supplements its production strengths with a powerful painting and<br />
image-editing environment in which users can easily edit vector objects,<br />
bitmap images and text. For veteran Web designers, being able to take a<br />
graphic from conception to output in a single tool speeds workflow. For<br />
people just starting out, having all the functionality they need in one<br />
application saves money.</p>
<p>Recognizing that digital artists have different needs than their<br />
print-oriented counterparts, Fireworks offers the tools necessary to create<br />
the types of images common on the Web. Since most Web graphics consist of<br />
text, logos, and navigational elements -each composed of type, line art,<br />
and bitmaps- Fireworks features precise text controls, a rich set of vector<br />
tools, and a robust bitmap editing environment. All objects and effects in<br />
Fireworks are editable all the time, enabling designers to experiment<br />
freely and rapidly implement changes requested by clients. A completely<br />
open solution, Fireworks imports and optimizes images from standard<br />
graphics applications such as Photoshop, FreeHand, Illustrator and<br />
CorelDraw.</p>
<p>Pricing and Availability<br />
Fireworks for Windows 95, Windows NT and Macintosh PowerPC is available now<br />
for an estimated street price of US $299. It will be available for purchase<br />
online through Macromedia at <a href="http://www.macromall.com" title="www.macromall.com">www.macromall.com</a>, directly from Macromedia at<br />
(800) 457-1774, and through traditional software distribution channels. A<br />
free, thirty-day trial version can be downloaded from <a href="http://www.getfireworks.com" title="www.getfireworks.com">www.getfireworks.com</a>.<br />
Interested parties outside North America should contact their local<br />
Macromedia distributor for pricing and availability. For the name of a<br />
Macromedia authorized reseller in your area, call (800) 326-2128 or visit<br />
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