# Tip: Use Fireworks instead of Photoshop for web (Flash) images

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**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 22, 2005, 3:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tip-use-fireworks-instead-of-photoshop-for-web-flash-images/163462 "2005-09-22T15:28:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![jillymo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5f9b8f/32.png) [@jillymo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jillymo)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2005, 3:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tip-use-fireworks-instead-of-photoshop-for-web-flash-images/163462/1 "2005-09-22T15:28:20Z")

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Maybe this is something that has been posted before, or possibly many of you already do this but just in case…

I recently discovered that Fireworks does a much better job of compressing bitmaps while retaining quality than the Photoshop save for web feature, or ImageReady for that matter.

I am easily cutting the file size of my jpegs in half simply by exporting them from Fireworks. I know that when it comes to using bitmaps in Flash size really does matter 😃

Just though I was pass this on, if it is already common knowledge feel free to delete/ignore this entry.