I found this week that Adobe Fireworks CS6 no longer activates with a Creative Cloud subscription. I’ve been a Creative Cloud customer since launch but now have to crack my copy of Adobe Fireworks CS6 to use it. Horrific thought for me since I hate using hacks to run software (who the hell really knows what is in there) but I can’t find another way to use it legally (no one has a copy for sale second hand).
I’d switch but I am very busy with work and can’t justify the time to learn new software right now while I still know all the features of Fireworks as I’ve used it since Macromedia introduced it.
I wish upon wish that Adobe had just made it possible to obtain a license key for it that worked offline.
Really upset at Adobe right now about this but also can’t imagine switching since everyone in the industry uses their file types.
I won’t invest my time in learning more of their products after this though.
I loved to develop websites in Fireworks and Dreamweaver. Man, those were good programs. This was during Macromedia times, though. I don't know how it changed with Adobe.
Obviously, nowadays web development is more complex than just throwing together some HTML, CSS and some PHP inserts. But the workflow these programs had was really thought out and pleasant.
I started out using Fireworks in 2003(?) when I bought Macromedia Studio, and find it's still faster for me to use than Photoshop for a handful of tasks. And the way its layers work has always been more intuitive than Photoshop to me.
So this sucks, as it's the one app I wouldn't want to let go of until I can find something to replace it. I suspect Sketch would, but I'm a Windows user.
Interesting, I didn't know that it had the tools to work with the myriad different device sizes and resolutions. I used it back in the day but I was just making static images to be sliced into image maps
I’d switch but I am very busy with work and can’t justify the time to learn new software right now while I still know all the features of Fireworks as I’ve used it since Macromedia introduced it.
I wish upon wish that Adobe had just made it possible to obtain a license key for it that worked offline.
Really upset at Adobe right now about this but also can’t imagine switching since everyone in the industry uses their file types.
I won’t invest my time in learning more of their products after this though.