{"id":24,"date":"2010-05-08T15:38:18","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T15:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/?p=24"},"modified":"2022-07-25T23:27:41","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T22:27:41","slug":"notes-to-remember-after-reading-adobe-fireworks-cs4-how-tos-100-essential-techniques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/2010\/05\/notes-to-remember-after-reading-adobe-fireworks-cs4-how-tos-100-essential-techniques\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes to Remember after reading Adobe Fireworks CS4 How-Tos 100 Essential Techniques"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/adobe-fireworks-book-essential-techniques.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-25\" title=\"adobe-fireworks-book-essential-techniques\" src=\"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/adobe-fireworks-book-essential-techniques.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"107\" height=\"137\" \/><\/a>So I just finished Adobe Fireworks CS4 &#8220;How-Tos 100 Essential Techniques&#8221; by Jim Babbage. I&#8217;ve used Fireworks for years, right back to when I was doing my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burkesys.com\/~sburke\/EducationalResources\/geometry\/\">Final Year Project<\/a> (see the Navigation when logged in). I use Fireworks for all my Web Design. I knew however that I wasn&#8217;t using all of Fireworks capability. After going through this book, here are the points I&#8217;ll check back on and make more use of.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Creating a Bitmap Mask with a Selection<\/li>\n<li>Understanding the Transform Tools &#8211; real life use of 9-slice scaling<\/li>\n<li>Creating a Custom Shape &#8211; Path panel: Fillet Points, Punch Out<\/li>\n<li>Masking an Image with a Vector Shape<\/li>\n<li>Text Basics &#8211; Auto-sizing text block V&#8217;s fixed with and changing between<\/li>\n<li>Using Type as a Mask<\/li>\n<li>Adding Text to a Path (Text -&gt; Attach to Path)<\/li>\n<li>Wrapping Text Around an Object (Punch Vector, then Attach in Path)<\/li>\n<li>Using Photoshop Live Effects. In particular Stroke! Great for making single or double outlines of text or objects.<\/li>\n<li>Working with Styles -&gt; The Styles Panel and pre-defined styles. Very Useful!!!<\/li>\n<li>Using Blend Modes (blending layers)<\/li>\n<li>Converting Bitmap Selections to Paths (Convert Marquee to Path and then Stroke)<\/li>\n<li>Creating Animation Symbols<\/li>\n<li>Adding Component Symbols to a Design (dragging in form and button elements. Export as html and css gives the correct html code for the form).<\/li>\n<li>Creating GIF Animations<\/li>\n<li>Tweening Animation<\/li>\n<li>Using the Kuler Panel -&gt; Window -&gt; Extensions -&gt; Kuler (clicking a color scheme sets up the colors in Fireworks).<\/li>\n<li>Site Prototyping &#8211; The Basics (setting up multiple pages and Master Page Layer)<\/li>\n<li>Sharing Layers Across Pages (Create a multiple page design -&gt; Commands -&gt; Demo Current Document: creates a flash-based slide show of each page.)<\/li>\n<li>Working with Metadata -&gt; File -&gt; File Info<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Overall it was a good brush-up on my Fireworks. After going over the Site Prototyping, I read up a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/sarthak\/2009\/03\/pages_panel_explored.html\">little more on pages<\/a>. I do thinks its useful and hope to do the full web design with multiple pages in one Fireworks png, however dealing with the Footer between pages of different height still isn&#8217;t ideal. The footer can&#8217;t go into the Master Page Layer. I suppose it&#8217;d be best created as a symbol and used across pages which can then be centrally edited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I just finished Adobe Fireworks CS4 &#8220;How-Tos 100 Essential Techniques&#8221; by Jim Babbage. I&#8217;ve used Fireworks for years, right back to when I was doing my Final Year Project (see the Navigation when logged in). I use Fireworks for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/2010\/05\/notes-to-remember-after-reading-adobe-fireworks-cs4-how-tos-100-essential-techniques\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,12],"tags":[14,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27,"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sburke.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}