Unfortunately at this moment, Sketch is only available for MAC users. The company behind it created “Sketch” with an aim to build a better app for graphic designers. Sketch is a professional vector graphics app with a beautiful interface and powerful tools. Though there are no real alternatives to Fireworks that have every single feature Fireworks has to offer, the only options users now have are to use Photoshop or Illustrator or looking into something totally different such as: Sketch But for those of you who simply cannot imagine themselves using Photoshop or Illustrator for their web design projects, then you better start looking for an alternative.
If you prefer planning ahead, then this would also be the right time to invest time in learning and mastering another tool such as Photoshop or Illustrator.
– The Web Platform and Authoring team Way Forwardįor users like me who are dependent on Fireworks, we can continue using the software as long as possible which in reality could be at least a year or 2 if not more.
Due to this overlap and as well as our change in our product development focus, we have decided not to update Fireworks to CC and instead will focus on developing new tools to meet our customer’s needs.” At the same time we have shifted to focus our engineering teams on building smaller, more modular, tools and services for specific tasks in web design. “Over the last couple of years, there has been an increasing amount of overlap in the functionality between Fireworks and both existing and new programs like Photoshop, Illustrator, and Edge Reflow. Reason stated by Adobe for closing development of Fireworks…
Adobe plans to update Fireworks to be compatible with next major releases MAC OS X and Windows but these plans may change.Adobe will be releasing fixes, including “File not found” issue on Mac OS 10.8.Adobe promises to offer security updates for Fireworks.