Quote Originally Posted by delgondahntelius View Post
Does fireworks use vectors? ... I know nothing of this software at all...
Fireworks is the Macromedia raster editor. It is exceptionally good at preparing images for display on the web, but it lacks the versatility of Photoshop or Gimp. Macromedia's vector app is called Freehand.

When Macromedia was absorbed by Adobe, they kept Fireworks as part of the web-development kit because it was so good at its job. I imagine they'll eventually fold it into ImageReady, though.