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Fireworks

Essentials

 

Fundamentals

  • Fireworks' role in web site creation
  • The Fireworks interface
  • Document and optimisation display
  • The Fireworks tools
  • Panels and inspectors
  • Using context menus
  • Creating a new document
  • Viewing documents
  • Fireworks' use of symbols

Manipulating type

  • Using the text
  • Applying attributes and effects
  • Manipulating text blocks
  • Typographic controls
  • Converting text to paths
  • Transforming text
  • Attaching text to a path

Working with graphics

  • Bitmaps and vectors compared
  • Drawing lines and shapes
  • Drawing curves
  • Setting stroke and fill attributes
  • Transforming objects
  • Bitmaps and image edit mode
  • Using live effects
  • Using the selection tools
  • Optimising and exporting
  • Working with layers
  • Adjusting layer opacity
  • Layer blend modes

Hotspots and slices

  • Creating hotspots and image maps
  • Assigning URLs to hotspots
  • Slicing an image
  • Rectangular and polygonal
  • Naming slices
  • Adding interactivity to slices
  • Mixing GIF and JPEG formats
  • Exporting slices

Buttons

  • Fireworks' button states
  • Creating buttons
  • Assigning URLs
  • Using symbols
  • Exporting buttons

Animation

  • How animated GIFs work
  • Organising frames
  • Working with layers
  • Using tweening
  • Setting playback options
  • Optimising and exporting