Editing using Fireworks

I am currently using Dreamweaver 2014.1 and trying to edit an image.
I pulled up the Properties windows but I only see the ability to edit in "Photoshop" vs. "Fireworks".
How can I edit using Fireworks vs. Photoshop?
Thank you in advance.

I'm sorry, but you cant. A bitmap file doesn't contain editable text, it only contains a grid of colored pixels. What you need to do is create a new image. For that, you'll need to know the color and the font.
If you don't have the hex code for the color, you can sample with the eyedropper tool. Since the font is so thin, sample at the thickest area you can find to minimize anti-aliasing color blending.
If you don't know the font, try one of these sites:
Identifont http://www.identifont.com/
WhatTheFont! http://new.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/
(It looks a bit like Century Gothic, but it isn't.)
Good luck!

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Hello,
I would like to know how to edit the text in the attached bitmap image using Fireworks. I have attached the image for reference. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Best,
C. Lee

I'm sorry, but you cant. A bitmap file doesn't contain editable text, it only contains a grid of colored pixels. What you need to do is create a new image. For that, you'll need to know the color and the font.
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WhatTheFont! http://new.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/
(It looks a bit like Century Gothic, but it isn't.)
Good luck!

Why Use Fireworks

We have recently started designing more websites at work and I'm wondering whether we should be using Fireworks. At the moment we use Photoshop and I'm struggling to see the advantage of using Fireworks. The differences between PS and FW seem to have got less and less over the years. I'd appreciate it if someone can tell me why I should be using FW over PS.
Thanks
Sean

Fireworks tool set and workflow is designed for Web layout. Photoshop's tool set and workflow is designed for image editing. Yes, over the years, Photoshop has had more Web tools added and Fireworks has had more image editing and effects tools added, but the basic philosophy of each application remains the same.
If you use Fireworks for what it's intended - and get good at it - you'll probably find that you are more efficient at producing Web layouts than you are when using Photoshop. The workflow is different, the approach is different, some terminology is slightly different (layers and sub-layers, for example, are used to organize objects, which can be vectors or bitmaps).
I've seen people try to approach Fireworks as some kind of "Photoshop Limited," which it isn't. (These people are often very frustrated by FW.) Fireworks is a different application with a unique, hybrid approach to layout, design, and export. It was never intended as a general-purpose image-editing application. The underlying, basic assumption with Fireworks is that you will use it to design a Web layout and produce Web graphics (plus some other things). Consequently, all the essential tools and menu commands you need for these tasks are integral to the application and easily accessed.

Edit with Fireworks

There is no "edit in fireworks" command on this context menu
even though I have Fireworks installed. I only have "edit with . .
." and it makes me choose the external program .exe file every time
I need to edit an image. How can I define an editor? I am sure
there is an easier way.

> If I have a jpeg with the source file as a PNG, I right
click (Windows)
> and
> click "Edit with Fireworks." It then says "Unable to
Launch
> Fireworks.....(and
> it points to the old Macrodmedia FW2004 file). I have
gone into Prefernces
> in
> DW and changed it using the browse feature after right
clicking "Edit
> With."
In PREFERENCES | File Types / Editors, Make sure you show the
correct path
to FW in the field called "Fireworks:". Then, under the
various desired
graphics file extensions, REMOVE Fireworks so that the right
panel is blank,
and then RE-ADD Fireworks.
Your other issue is a system issue, not a DW issue, and I
believe you were
given a solution earlier in the thread.
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>I am still having 2 issue which I cant seem to find a
solution for, not to
> mention the reason I bought CS3 was to make things more
effecient.
>
> If I have a jpeg with the source file as a PNG, I right
click (Windows)
> and
> click "Edit with Fireworks." It then says "Unable to
Launch
> Fireworks.....(and
> it points to the old Macrodmedia FW2004 file). I have
gone into Prefernces
> in
> DW and changed it using the browse feature after right
clicking "Edit
> With."
>
> The other issue as I have mentioned in above posts., is
when I open a
> jpeg
> (for example) in my Outlook or My Docs. I preveiw the
image, then I would
> righ
> click and it would give me the option to "Edit in
Fireworks" I am not
> seeing
> that option
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>

DW CS3 and the "edit in Fireworks" button

Hi:
In using the edit in Fireworks button, my computer is looking
for DW8 to open, which was uninstalled a long time ago. The
preferences are set correctly to FW CS3, but it won't obey.
Any suggestions to re-train my system?
Thx, Ned

There's a workaround over on the Yahoo group:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/adobe-dreamweaver/message/60883
1. Open the Dreamweaver preferences -> File Types /
Editors
2. Select PNG in the extensions section, then select
"Fireworks(Primary)
3. Click on the minus Button to remove Fireworks as Editor
4. Make sure that Fireworks is removed from all the
Extensions that
list Fireworks as editor
5. Quit and relaunch Dreamweaver, get back to the File Types
/Editors
Preferences
6. Select PNG again and click the plus Button
7. Now navigate to Fireworks that has been installed on e.g.
D:\Progams\Adobe Fireworks CS3\Fireworks.exe
8. Repeat this with every Extension that should have
Fireworks as Editor
Charles Nadeau
Dreamweaver
Adobe Systems

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Thanks for your reply... I guess I thought I made myself so clear but somehow did not. I just got so used to going in Dreamweaver, clicking on a slice and pressing the Fireworks button that when I saw a pencil icon instead... I guess I just "over-thought" the problem.
I did not knowingly bring in PhotoPad, so I am not sure how it got into my system but I am getting rid of it. Here is what had happened. I have worked long enough on files that I do know you can't edit an .html file in Fireworks and that was what was so frustrating because I could not get to the png file even though it was the default editor. My mistake was that I had set the .png file to edit in Fireworks but forgot that the "slices" are .jpg and .gif. So.... when I went back to Dreamweaver and set the editor for those file types to Fireworks... it worked. I opened Fireworks... and then I could choose the .png file that created all those blasted slices, make my changes, and click the "done" button which took me back to Dreamweaver and updated my changes.
Thanks again!

What should i use fireworks for?

Ok, so im thinking of upgrading my current Adobe package with
CS2 to the new CS3 and i was looking at the Webdesign premuim. And
it comes with Fireworks. I do a lot of webdesign and I was
wondering what exactly would i use fireworks for?
What does it do better than using plain ol' Photoshop for
making templates and stuff? ect...
Thanks

Clandestinex337,
There is signficant difference between the Fireworks 8 and
Photoshop in terms of application feature and functionality.
Fireworks 8 is specifically designed for
web graphic
and
web photos
while Photoshop is specifically designed for high-end
professional print and if you will also for professional
photographers to edit high quality photo images.
Additionally, like others have said about Fireworks have
built-in vector-based and bitmapped-based, while Photoshop is
mainly bitmapped-based application. That is a major difference
between Fireworks and Photoshop in that respect.
If you understand, have some hands-on experience with
Fireworks and/or Photoshop, you will know the difference and
undeerstand the main or primary purpose of those two applications
-- whichever that fits right into your needs, your requirement and
things like that.
If you aim for webdesign projects and if you work a lot of
image files aiming for web graphic and web photos, then Fireworks
is for you.
I don't know if you have Fireworks or Photoshop installed on
your machine. If you do not have those two, perhaps that you might
want to test-drive those two for 30 days and let the experience and
hands-on tell the story and it speaks for itself.
quote:
Originally posted by:
Clandestinex337
Ok, so im thinking of upgrading my current Adobe package with
CS2 to the new CS3 and i was looking at the Webdesign premuim. And
it comes with Fireworks. I do a lot of webdesign and I was
wondering what exactly would i use fireworks for?
What does it do better than using plain ol' Photoshop for
making templates and stuff? ect...
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Sorry in advance if the following comment is missing the
point of your question.
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