Photoshop Fill - A major integration issue?

Question

For the first time in a production environment, I was ready
to use FW CS3 to slice and dice a colleague's PSD. I opened it in
Photoshop and then in Fireworks for comparison - the two looked
nothing alike.
This particular colleague likes to take advantage of PS's
Fill setting (as opposed to opacity and I can understand why in
certain situations) - but Fireworks has no understanding of this
Fill concept so every layer that uses it is darker in FW. So what's
a guy to do?
Is this a known integration issue? Will there be a solution
for CS4? Can I wait that long? Is it ever really worth trying to
open a PSD in Fireworks?
I'm more than a little disappointed...
Matt
Firewoiks

Answer 1

I haven't tried this yet, but here's a thought:
PS is layer based, FW is object bases. As a result, in FW you
can
control the opacity of layers AND objects. Is it similar
enough to
Photoshop's Fill and Opacity in a layer? Maybe adjusting the
opacity of
the object will get you what you need? It might impact the
stroke on the
object, but you could possibly duplicate the object and
remove/mask it's
fill, so the solid stroke remains.
It's a workaround, and a bit more work, but it might solve
the problem
for now.
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Stowball wrote:
> Linda
>
> The problem is not caused by any colour mode or embedded
profiles - it's
> caused by Fireworks' lack of support for Photoshop's
Fill feature.
>
> The Fill feature is useful, because you can change the
opacity of the actual
> fill, without changing the opacity of any effects - like
strokes - that are
> applied to the layer.
>
> My colleague uses this method frequently in his his
designs.
>
> This PNG demonstrates it perfectly:
>
http://www.mattstow.com/downloads/fill_test.png
>
> And the original PSD can be found here:
>
http://www.mattstow.com/downloads/fill_test.psd
>
> This is a real issue for PS->FW interoperability - I
basically could not use
> FW for the task of preparing a design for the web.
>
> I'd be interested to hear how this will affect other
users.
>
> Regards
>
> Matt
>