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Fireworks is or was Macromedia's direct competition for Adobe Photoshop (before Adobe bought Macromedia). This application may be refered to as Adobe Fireworks or Macromedia Fireworks. Fireworks, like photoshop, is a "raster graphics editor." Raster graphics is more like photographic images, where "vector graphics" is more like stick drawing. Compression with raster graphics is limited by the shear amount of information stored in an image. Where in vector graphics much of the information is "calculated," "interpolated," or estimated based on mathematical formulae. If you need unique details you need raster graphics, if you need cartoon (or for more advanced users... comic book characters) like seen in animation, you need vector graphics. For a full study of "new media" tools and methods, you will need both. And eventually those who study new media will use applications that combine raster graphics, vector graphics, and 2D/3D/4D interactive animation.

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