While attempting to make a nice looking website for my boss I've been messing around with photoshop to try and get all my graphical elements in place. And to tell the truth I was going nowhere quick. I reckon for seasoned photoshop users it would be a piece of cake setting up all the different backgrounds and such for a site but for me, having little photoshop experience it was a really frustrating process just trying to make up simple headers and that. So today I decided to have a go off Fireworks which I had lying around on my computer but had never really used. In about an hour I've put together a really nice looking header for my webpage which fits perfectly and all. This is also taking into account time taken to get used to the interface and tools as it was my first really using the program properly.
For beginners, if you have no experience in either program, Fireworks is really easy to pick up compared to Photoshop. It may not have some of the advanced features (correct me if I'm wrong) but if you are just doing up stuff for web then it works really nice.
A lot of the controls which are immediately apparent on Fireworks are geared specifically towards web such as image compression and such. Obviously these are probably available on Photoshop somewhere but on Fireworks they are used more in the main and you don't have to get lost looking for them in menus where they are viewed as secondary functions.
All in all worth a try if you've been struggling with Photoshop to get your desired results.
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