Fireworks 8 or Photoshop CS2?

I have a golden opportunity that I need help with. I have
been using DW8 for a few months and have produced a few websites.
My boss apparently has taken notice of the sites and wants me to do
more websites for the company. BTW, I am an accountant, not a
website designer, but I really enjoy working with DW8. My boss will
support a graphics program for me. By support, I mean he will buy
the program, one or two books and a video tutorial. I have used a
trial version of Photoshop CS2 and Fireworks 8 and can’t
decide which one to choose. Does anybody have any real world
experience or suggestions? Here are the conclusions I have come to
so far:
PCS2 is a more complicated (hence more powerful) program and
can probably do more things. I have not spent much time with this
one yet. FW8 seems to work well with DW8 since both are Macromedia
programs. Don’t know where Adobe is going with the merging of
the two (PCS2 and FW8). What about suggested books and videos? I
have seen Lynda.com for tutorials and they seem to be pretty good,
as is Total Training. Any help would be appreciated as I
didn’t want to jump into a decision without giving it some
thought.

Mr. Brownie wrote:
<snipped some> PCS2 is a more complicated (hence more
powerful) program
and can probably do
> more things. I have not spent much time with this one
yet. FW8 seems to work
> well with DW8 since both are Macromedia programs. Don?t
know where Adobe is
> going with the merging of the two (PCS2 and FW8). What
about suggested books
> and videos? I have seen Lynda.com for tutorials and they
seem to be pretty
> good, as is Total Training. Any help would be
appreciated as I didn?t want to
> jump into a decision without giving it some thought.
>
>
Have a read of this:
http://www.pixelyzed.com/pixelforge/whychoosefireworks/
And if you do decide to go with Fireworks, Linda Rathgeber's
e-books
http://www.webdevbiz.com/pwf/razzle.cfm
http://webdevbiz.com/pwf/photomagic/
and her Playing with Fire
http://tinyurl.com/jhu5a are
amazing.
(PWF is for a couple of versions prior, FW4, but still a very
good
learning tool.)
Good luck, what a great opportunity for you! :-)
Bonnie
in California
8 ^ )

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Chuck Dell - 09:20am Dec 19, 2005 Pacific
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Joseph liftik - 11:12am Dec 19, 05 PST (#1 of 2)
Wait for Adobe update on ARC that will support D200.
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Excuse me, but what is ARC?
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