About the brand ❤️
Adobe Fireworks was a hybrid bitmap and vector graphics editor originally developed by Macromedia and later continued by Adobe Inc. after its acquisition of Macromedia. Designed primarily for web and interface designers, it combined features of raster and vector editing to quickly create and optimize graphics for websites, application mockups, and interactive elements. Fireworks provided tools for slicing layouts, exporting HTML and CSS elements, and integrating with other Adobe products like Dreamweaver and Flash, making it a versatile choice for rapid web design workflows. Its intuitive interface allowed designers to handle both pixel-based edits and scalable vector objects in one environment, streamlining prototyping and graphical asset creation. Due to functional overlap with other Adobe Creative Suite tools such as Photoshop and Illustrator, Adobe announced in 2013 that active development would cease, and no further major versions were released after Fireworks CS6, marking the product’s discontinuation.
Founded: 1998
Closed: 2013
Headquarters:
San Jose, California, United States of America (the)
Owner: Adobe Inc.
https://www.adobe.com/products/fireworks.html