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Matthew Inman loves Fireworks

January 16 th, 2010

Thierry Lorey

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Matthew Inman is a designer and illustrator who is popular amongst internet geeks and dinosaurs. His work can be found on his website, The Oatmeal.

Extract of his interview concerning Adobe Fireworks:

“I use Adobe Fireworks to draw the comics. It’s intended for web design, but it’s also a very capable vector editing tool and it works beautifully if your work is going to end up on a website. Transitioning to print from Fireworks can be a pain though, because it wasn’t intended for that.

I don’t use photoshop and I’m actually pretty terrible with it. I have Illustrator and I was using it for a few months, but I ended up going back to Fireworks simply because I’m more comfortable with it and it’s better for creating web content.”

After Jon Hicks, another illustrator who is using Adobe Fireworks for his work …