What's The Best Program For Designing

[CoolMac]

templates,page effects,buttons,animations,banners,logos,etc.
better which are the best programs for these stuff?

[h1]

Photoshop or Fireworks.

[CoolMac]

fireaorks does fine if u want to add efects to images

[TRshady]

Photoshop is the best in my opinion.

But for smaller, more simple things like buttons, fireworks is great, specially for optimizing/exporting.

[{I}{K}{E}]

Fireworks is good and it's easier to use then Photoshop.

[CoolMac]

i got fireworks, now i need some crap animations

u know those kind of stupid small movies that can never be found on websites

and of course text animations,effects,.I tried Koolmoves and i liked it for example

[h1]

Dude. Now you just need tons of plugins for Fireworks.

[CoolMac]

it could help

i'll give a shot to plugins

[Amarjit]

I use both Fireworks MX 2004 and Photoshop CS. Photoshop I use for serious graphic stuff but Fireworks acts as a decent replacement to MS Paint. Use Fireworks first, get to grips with it and you'll find PS To be a cinch. You'll seen find that Fireworks is severely limited in comparison with PS though later on. I'd stay away from Paint Shop Pro, as basically it is a scaled-down version of PS. It's not quite as good as PS, but others claim to be easier to use.