I don’t know CoJo… When I started to use that program (Fireworks) I already was into Photoshop, so it wasn’t so bad… The program is not complicated at all, you just have to paly in it little bit… but, if you just want to be able to shrink, resize, enlarge pictures, nothing is easier than Fireworks… Just load your BMP picture file (or whatever), go to EXPORT PREVIEW, choose the format (jpg, PNG, GIF etc…), choose how much colors do you want that picture to contain (more colors, larger phisical size of exported file), and click it on SAVE or SAVE AS… as simple as that…

Cheers !