Introducing Adobe Fireworks CS3
Having worked on the Fireworks team at Macromedia prior to the merger with Adobe, I felt really good about being involved with such a great vector and bitmap graphics editing tool that had held its own against other tools on the market. In fact, on a personal level, I owe Macromedia and the Fireworks community big time for helping me make an honest living for the past 10 years as a professional web developer. I used Fireworks more than 4–5 hours a day—if not 10–15 hours depending on the scope of the project.

When I realized that Adobe would integrate Fireworks with Adobe Creative Suite 3 during the next development cycle, I knew this would mean a great deal for Fireworks developers. One big change would be integration with Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Adobe Illustrator CS3, which meant enhancing existing workflows with an emphasis on mocking up prototypes.
The Fireworks team has done a tremendous job with the release of Fireworks CS3. The amount of passion that the team and beta testers expressed during the development cycle was amazing to witness.
We completely revamped Fireworks to work on Intel-based Macs, integrated complex core libraries while improving performance, enhanced existing workflows, and added new features like 9-slice scaling.