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Compression Comparison: Photoshop 6.0 vs. Fireworks MX

For this portion, I compressed each image to quality level 30 of each application. This basically just compares each applications "arbitrary" slider position.

We once again see Fireworks produce file sizes much smaller than Photoshops, but in this case, the Photoshop images look pretty good, while the image quality from Fireworks is completely unacceptable.

Photoshop: 28468 bytes

Fireworks: 9590 bytes

Photoshop: 51980 bytes

Fireworks: 13157 bytes

Photoshop: 27407 bytes

Fireworks: 8425 bytes

Photoshop: 61055 bytes

Fireworks: 15561 bytes

Photoshop: 64088 bytes

Fireworks: 22080 bytes

Photoshop: 15360 bytes

Fireworks: 6627 bytes

Photoshop: 16835 bytes

Fireworks: 6402 bytes

Photoshop: 18432 bytes

Fireworks: 5573 bytes

Photoshop: 13780 bytes

Fireworks: 6617 bytes

Photoshop: 14434 bytes

Fireworks: 6718 bytes