Adobe Fireworks is one of the best tools for web, mobile
& screen design (while Adobe Photoshop is one of the best
tools for editing photos).
Sadly, Adobe decided to stop
its development in 2013.
Nevertheless, unless a new, better UI design tool emerges soon, many designers will continue to use it in the near future.
And the good news is that as of 2014, Fireworks CS5.1 and CS6 (the last two versions of Fireworks) run with no issues
on latest OS X 10.9 "Mavericks" and on Windows 8.1 Professional.
So, for all of you that still rely on Fireworks in your screen design tasks, here are some useful resources (see list below).
Articles/tutorials about Fireworks:
- Smashing Magazine review of Adobe Fireworks CS5, by Michel Bozgounov (2010/May/22)
- 10 Reasons why I prefer Fireworks CS4 to Photoshop for Web Design, by Leigh Howells from boagworld.com (2009/Sep/29)
- 50 reasons not to use Ps for webdesign, by André Reinegger (2010/Dec/14)
- What can be achieved with Adobe Fireworks?, by Michel Bozgounov (2010/Sep/17)
- Adobe Fireworks Interviews with Famous Designers, by Linus Lim (2011/10)
- Does anybody use Fireworks? (a discussion @ reddit, 2011/05)
- I'm Switching to Fireworks, by Chris Wallace (2010/May/29)
- Mastering shadows in Photoshop, Illustrator and Fireworks, who’s the winner? (2011/Feb/15)
- Adobe Fireworks: Create High-Fidelity Wireframes for Agile Environment (2013/11)
- The Endless Fireworks vs. Photoshop Battle, by Ivo Mynttinen (2011/Aug/09)
- Introduction to Adobe Fireworks, by Design Modo (Jan. 7, 2013)
- The No.1 Reason I Love Fireworks (video), by By Leigh Howells on 18th May 2012 (Headscape)
- From Photoshop to Fireworks and back. Part 2. Wireframing. (October 23, 2012) by Andrey Khorolets
- FireworksLove, a project by Pablo Massa (2012)
- HelloFireworks, a project by thewaytoantartico.com (2012)
- The Web Designer's Guide to Comparing Photoshop and Fireworks, by Brandon Jones (2010/Dec/08)
- 7 Reasons Why I Choose Fireworks Over Photoshop, by Russell McGovern (2010/Aug/12)
- Why Choose Fireworks?, by Stéphane Bergeron (2007/Feb/07)
- Fireworks for Beginners, by MediaLoot (2011/Jul/13)
- Adobe Fireworks – The Graphic Designer’s Secret Weapon, by David Bricker (2012/Feb/23)
- Why I Prefer Adobe Fireworks over Photoshop for Designing Websites, by Michael Locke, Sr. User Experience Designer @ Yahoo! (2011/Apr/04)
- Why Designers Should Be Using Adobe Fireworks, by Kevin Stohlmeyer (2010/Jul/26)
- I'm Breaking Up With Photoshop, by Jeff Noble (2010/Nov/04)
- Photoshop vs Fireworks, by Digital Web Magazine (2008/Jul/22)
- Stop comparing Fireworks with Photoshop!, by Kev Adamson (2008/Jun/13)
- 11 Reasons Adobe Fireworks Is The Best Design Software You Never Use, by Babar Suleman (2012/Jan/17)
- Adobe Fireworks for web design, by Kim Maida (2011/Sep/19)
- How to achieve pixel perfection in your designs with Adobe Fireworks, by Ivo Mynttinen (2011/Oct/11)
- Fireworks vs Photoshop Compression, by Web Designer Wall (2009/Oct/30)
- Fireworks vs. Photoshop, by Amrinder Sandhu (2009/Oct/06)
- The features that make Fireworks the application of choice for web designers, by John Skinner (2009/Oct/26)
- We Love Adobe Fireworks!, by Chris Brauckmuller (2010/Jan/12)
- Fireworks CS5: Review by MacWorld (2010/May/19)
- Export Commands pack (incl. export to Pages/States, CSS, Sprites and SVG), by Aaron Beall (2011/Jul)
- Rapid interactive prototyping with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript using Fireworks and Dreamweaver CS4, by Mariano Ferrario and Dave Hogue (2009/Apr)
- Serious about Web Design? Start using the right tool (Fireworks CS5), by Niccolo Favari (2010/Aug/13)
- Illustrator vs Fireworks, by Tim Thompson (2006/Jun/28)
- Fireshop or Photoworks, by Kyle Steed (via #) (2010/Jul/29)
- Adobe Fireworks thrives in my iPhone development workflow, by Chuck Freedman (2009/Jul/24)
- Simple Example Of How Useful Adobe Fireworks Can Be, by Jake Howlett (2010/Sep/14)
- 5 Reasons why Fireworks kicks Photoshop's Web Designing Butt, by Elyssa Dolinger (2010/Sep/03)
- A Case for Adobe Fireworks against Photoshop and Illustrator, by Andy Killen (2010/Oct/13)
- Fireworks CS5 vs. Photoshop CS4 Compression, by JG (2010/Sep/17)
- Designing with Fireworks and Why Adobe should call it Prototype, by Jason Waldrip (2011/Mar/08)
- Learning to Love Fireworks, by Benjamin Borowski (2011/Feb/18)
- Dear Photoshop user, meet Fireworks!, by Phil LaPier (2011/Feb/28)
- Designing interactive products with Fireworks, by Nick Myers from cooper.com (2008/Aug/21)
- Industry trends in prototyping, by Dave Cronin from cooper.com (2009/Feb/02)
- Sparkling Fireworks illustration, by Gianluca Divisi (2010)
- Friday Bunny (fears in pictures), a Fireworks illustration project by Ani Kostova (2010, 2011)
- Pourquoi Fireworks est mieux que Photoshop pour faire du WEB (2011/Feb/09) [FR]
- Fireworks, puro web + UI design by Lorenzo Franchini (2011/Mar/26)
Useful Fireworks resources, tutorials, downloads:
- Creating a Retro Pixel Effect with Fireworks, by Kirupa Chinnathambi (2012/Feb/06)
- Android Design V2: Now with stencils for Fireworks (and Omnigraffe), by Google team [direct download link to Fw files] (2012/Feb)
- Create Demo (for web and mobile), by WebEngineer (2011/06/20)
- How to Design a Clean Website Template From Scratch in Adobe Fireworks, by Tony Thomas (2011/Jun/09)
- Tilt Shift Effect with Adobe Fireworks, by FireTuts (2011/Jul/06)
- Wireframing & Prototyping with Adobe Fireworks (Resources and Tutorials), by Oleg Mokhov (2011/11)
- Transparent borders in Fireworks, by Mikko Vartio (2011/06)
- Multi-Border Rectangle for Fireworks, by John Dunning (2011/04)
- High-quality library of Fireworks resources, by Ivo Mynttinen (2011)
- Touch Application Prototypes (TAP). For iPhone and iPad, using Adobe Fireworks, by UNITiD, Amsterdam (2011/Mar/20)
- How to Create a Grunge Polaroid Photo in Adobe Fireworks, by Tony Thomas (2011/Apr/19)
- Using rich symbols in Fireworks, by
Aaron Beall (2007/Apr/16)
- Designing interactive products with Fireworks, by Nick Myers (2008/Aug/21)
- Annotation extension for Adobe Fireworks, by Mariano Ferrario [http://bit.ly/h8nq6U] (2011)
- A Brief Isometric Pixel Art Demonstration With Adobe Fireworks, video-tutorial by Mikko Vartio (2012/Feb/18)
- Pixel House (Fw.Png Freebie), by Mikko Vartio (2012/Feb/20)
- Learning Isometric Pixels in Fireworks, by Mikkoa vartio (2012/Jan/17)
- 8 Must-have Fireworks Extensions for Interactive Designers, by Emily Zier says (2011/Oct/25)
- Adobe Fireworks blueprints for the web (free/paid versions) by @specctr (2012)
- Extending Fireworks, by @extendfireworks (2012)
- Why More and More Designers are Switching to Fireworks, by Anthony/ @uxmovement (2011/11/21)
- Getting Started with Fireworks: Using Master Pages, Pages, and Web Layers, by Connor Turnbull (2010/Dec/14)
- Tables Panel extension for Adobe Fireworks, by John Dunning (2011/Mar/23)
- Create More Efficient Files in Adobe Fireworks, by Dave Hogue (2011/Feb/13)
- How To Create a Slick Navigation Bar In Adobe Fireworks, by Jon Phillips (2011/Feb/21)
- Media Federation Releases Fireworks Rich Symbols for iPhone, by Media Federation (2011/Jan/23)
- Fireworks toolkit for creating iPhone UI mockups, by metaspark (2009/Feb/11)
- Graphic resources for Adobe Fireworks, by Webportio (2011)
- The Ultimate Adobe Fireworks Toolbox - list of useful Fireworks resouces, by Robert Bowen (2010/Oct/12)
- A collection of Adobe Fireworks Tutorials, by Craig Erskine (2010)
- Website wireframes kit for Adobe Fireworks v.0.9, by dragnet.se (2010/Aug, 2011/Mar)
- Dynamic Bokeh styles for Adobe Fireworks, by Mikko Vartio (2010/Aug/25)
- Creating a Basic Wireframe Using Adobe Fireworks, by Matt Krautstrunk (2011/Mar/10)
- Degradable PNG Transparency for IE6, by Jesse Schoberg (2009/Jul/03)
- Sketchy Brushes / Styles for Adobe Fireworks, by Mikko Vartio (2010/Aug/25)
- Fireworks Pro Series (tutorials), by Tom Greeen (2011)
- Adobe Fireworks CSS3 Mobile Pack, by Adobe Labs (2011/10)
- Extracting CSS properties from design objects in Fireworks using the CSS3 Mobile Pack, by Shubhashri C. G. (2011/11)
- Using the New CSS3 Mobile Pack, by AdobeTV (2011/11)
- Adobe Fireworks PNG weeks, by Craig Erskine (2010)
- Rapid Fire - a series of detailed Adobe Fireworks tutorials, by SixThings (2010)
- Fireworks Contest Wallpapers (2009), by Michel Bozgounov (2009/Dec/16)
- Adobe Fireworks Tutorials and Downloads – Best of, by Smashing Magazine (2008/Mar/18)
- An Explosion of Adobe Fireworks Resources, by Melissa Scroggins (2010/Feb/02)
- The Ultimate Round-Up of Fireworks Tutorials and Resources, by Smashing Magazine (2009/Jul/27)
- Fireworks illustrations, by Mikko Vartio [2010, 2011]
- Designing in the Grey (using Adobe Fireworks), by Floor Van Herreweghe (2010/Aug/12)
- Fireworks tutorials, by voidix.com (2010)
- Create a notebook with spiral binding, by Brian Edgin ()
- Creating the Mozilla Firefox logo in Fireworks, by Jon Hicks (2004/Feb/08)
- 35 Excellent Adobe Fireworks Tutorials, by Steven Snell (2008/Nov/02)
- Fireworks tutorials, by Layers Magazine (2010, 2011)
- Amazing collection of commands and extensions, by John Dunning (2011)
- Another amazing collection of commands and autoshapes, by Aaron Beall (2011)
- And another amazing collection of commands and extensions, by Matt Stow (2011)
- And another collection of amazing extensions, by Trevor McCauley (2009)
- PNG compression on iPhone/iPad, by Sean Christmann (2010/Sep/01)
- Prototyping for the Apple iPhone using Fireworks, by Matthijs Collard (2009/Sep/14)
- iPhone GUI as Rich Symbols library for Fireworks, by Jorge Correa (2008/Aug/07)
- FireTuts Tutorials, by FireTuts (2009)
- A better gradient panel, by Grant Hinskon (2007/Apr/14)
- Using the Gradient panel in Fireworks CS3, by Grant Hinkson (2007/Apr/16)
- Fireworks styles for free download, by virtualclues.com (2009)
- A blog on Fireworks, by Joe DaSilva ()
- Photoshop, Fireworks, Illustrator? A real Web design application?, by Jason Santa Maria (2010/Jul/26)
- Textures downloads for Fireworks, by WebExponent (2009/Feb/27)
- Textures/patterns for download (including for Fireworks), by OneExtraPixel (2010/Sep/24)
- 960px grid templates (for Fireworks and other apps), by Nathan Smith (2011)
- Alternative 960px grid templates (incl. for Fireworks), by Robbie Manson (2010/Mar/25)
- Did you know FW could Tween Animate? Fireworks CS4 Tutorial (2010)
- Design to HTML/CSS using Fireworks to Dreamweaver workflow (P1): Exporting the design, by Dave Hogue (2010/Nov)
- Design to HTML/CSS using Fireworks to Dreamweaver workflow (P2): Modifying the HTML/CSS, by Dave Hogue (2010/Nov)
- Orange Commands for Adobe Fireworks, by Ale Muñoz (2011)
- Sneak Peek: Export as CSS3 for Adobe Fireworks (2010/Nov)
- Fireworks Linked Images [equals Smart Imported Objects in Ai/Ps], by John Dunning (2010/Nov)
- Functionality of Adobe Fireworks in your Design Workflow, Jake Rocheleau (2010/Oct/03)
- PNG8 alpha transparency using Adobe Fireworks, by RedTeam (2010/Nov/08)
- Adobe Fireworks CS5 review, by Rosie Khdir (pc-site.co.uk) (2010/Dec/02)
- Tips for Fireworks, by Larent Mottet (2012/Feb/09)
http://www.slideshare.net/NakatomiBE/tips-for-adobe-fireworks
- More Gradient Options with Adobe Fireworks, by James George (2011/Feb/23)
- What Are Index and Alpha Transparency?, by Dave Hogue (2011/Mar/27)
- Making Icons Using Alpha Converted Vector Groups (in Adobe Fireworks), by Rogie King (2011/Mar/07)
- Creaitive drawings in Fireworks, by Marcos Reis (2011)
- Cool Fw illustrations, by Martin Walker Design (2011)
- Open an image from Firefox in Adobe Fireworks, an extension for Firefox (2011)
- Fireworks 101 (basic tutorial about paths in Fw), by Gyorgy Fekete (2008/09/26)
- Photo Styles, by Mikko Vartio [free download] (2011/06)
- Photo Effects Styles, by Linus Lim [free download] (2011/06)
- Letterpress Text Styles, by Mikko Vartio [free download (2011/07)]
- Fireworks Text Styles, by Linus Lim [free download (2011/07)]
- Fireworks Tutorials, by Creare's web design blog (2011)
- Fw 4 for Ps users, by Randy Varnell (2000)
- Stop using Photoshop, by D. Trachtman (2011/Oct/02)
- Autoshapes for Adobe Fireworks, by Aaron Beall (2011/07)
- The iOS Design Cheat Sheet, by Ivo Mynttinen (2011/07)
- iPhone 4 (Retina Display) Template for Adobe Fireworks, by Glenn (2011/07)
- IOS icon guidelines & starter kit, by Matt Willett (2011/06)
- Using the Guides panel in Fireworks CS3, by Eugene Jude (2017/Apr)
Tips & Tricks:
Websites that offer cool free Fw resources
Beautiful interfaces and illustrations, created in Fireworks