For the last few years I’ve had a education subscription to Adobe Creative Cloud. Mostly for Fireworks. FW is not going to survive past Mac OS 10.15, Catalina, 2019, 64 bit only. Yesterday I cancelled my sub. I’ll miss FW’s separation of layers & frames in gifs.
@johnjohnston I was at an Adobe-sponsored conference in NYC in 1998 when I saw a demo of Fireworks, soon to be released. Everyone in the room was so psyched. I couldn’t wait to own it.
End of an era.
@jean @wearsmanyhats I got FW as part of the macromedia education bundle. I think in 2004 It has always made sense to me. Sad to see it go.
@johnjohnston @wearsmanyhats Oops, you reminded me that FW was originally a Macromedia product. It was ImageReady that I first saw in a 1998 demo. That did seem like magic.
@wearsmanyhats I remember saying to one of the Adobe folks at the conference, “It must be so nice working with products that get people so excited.” (Now I don’t install anything from Adobe anymore. 😒)
It was fun being a web designer when things were first getting rolling. So much interesting creative software to make it easier to build things we were making pretty much by hand.