Dreamweaver® CS3 Bible

Chapter 24. Adobe Photoshop, Fireworks, and Bridge Integration

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Investigating the Photoshop and Dreamweaver workflow

• Exploring the Fireworks/Dreamweaver connection

• Using Fireworks from within Dreamweaver

• Dreamweaver Technique: Optimizing Graphics

• Working with image placeholders

• Dreamweaver Technique: Combining Images in Fireworks

• Sending a graphic to Fireworks

• Embedding Fireworks code

• Driving the Fireworks graphics engine

• Integrating Bridge

From the Dreamweaver user perspective, perhaps the most significant impact of the Adobe and Macromedia merger was the bringing together the two market leading tools: Adobe Photoshop in graphics and Dreamweaver in Web authoring. Web designers, especially those new to the field, have long tried to combine Photoshop and Dreamweaver in their workflow, under somewhat painful conditions. The two products—from two different parent companies—simply did not play well with each other. Now, to the delight of Web professionals around the globe, they do. In this chapter, you learn the various ways that you can effortlessly tie Photoshop and Dreamweaver together.

In the real world, Web sites—particularly the images—are constantly being tweaked and modified. This fact of Web life explains why Fireworks, Adobe's premier Web graphics tool, is so popular. One of Fireworks' main claims to fame is that everything is editable all the time. If that were all that Fireworks did, the program would already have earned a place on every Web designer's shelf just for ...