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User Manual: adobe Adobe Fireworks - CS4 - User Guide Free User Guide for Adobe Fireworks Software, Manual
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- Contents
- Chapter 1: Resources
- Chapter 2: Fireworks basics
- About working in Fireworks
- Vector and bitmap graphics
- Creating a new Fireworks document
- Opening and importing files
- Create Fireworks PNG files from HTML files
- Insert objects into a Fireworks document
- Saving Fireworks files
- Chapter 3: Workspace
- Workspace basics
- Navigate and view documents
- Change the canvas
- Undo and repeat multiple actions
- Chapter 4: Selecting and transforming objects
- Select objects
- Modify a selection
- Select pixels
- Options for bitmap selection tools
- Create pixel selection marquees
- Adjust selection marquees
- Reposition a selection while creating it
- Move an existing marquee
- Add pixels to an existing selection
- Subtract pixels from a selection
- Select part of an existing marquee
- Inverse a pixel selection
- Feather a pixel selection
- Expand or contract a marquee
- Select an area around an existing marquee
- Smooth the border of a marquee
- Convert, transfer, or save marquee selections
- Copy or move the contents of a marquee selection
- Edit selected objects
- 9-slice scaling
- Organize multiple objects
- Chapter 5: Working with bitmaps
- Creating bitmaps
- Editing bitmaps
- Retouching bitmaps
- Adjust bitmap color and tone
- Apply a Live Filter to an area defined by a bitmap selection marquee
- Adjust tonal range in bitmaps
- Adjust highlights, midtones, and shadows with Levels
- Adjust highlights, midtones, and shadows automatically
- Adjust a specific color in the tonal range with Curves
- Adjust brightness and contrast
- Change object colors by blending
- Adjust hue and saturation
- Invert an image's color values
- Change an object to grayscale
- Change an object to sepia tone
- Blurring and sharpening bitmaps
- Add noise to an image
- Chapter 6: Working with vector objects
- Basic shapes
- Auto Shapes
- The Auto Shape tools
- Draw an Auto Shape
- Add a shadow to an Auto Shape
- Change Auto Shape properties precisely
- Change Auto Shape properties by using control points
- Adjust Arrow Auto Shapes
- Adjust Arrow Line Auto Shapes
- Adjust beveled, chamfered, and rounded rectangle Auto Shapes
- Adjust Connector Line Auto Shapes
- Adjust Doughnut Auto Shapes
- Adjust L-shaped Auto Shapes
- Adjust Measure Tool Auto Shapes
- Adjust Pie Auto Shapes
- Adjust Smart polygon Auto Shapes
- Adjust Spiral Auto Shapes
- Adjust Star Auto Shapes
- Use additional Auto Shapes
- Add new Auto Shapes to Fireworks
- Free-form shapes
- Special vector-editing techniques
- Edit with vector tools
- Bend and reshape vector objects with the Freeform tool
- Distort selected paths with the Reshape Area tool
- Redraw or extend a selected path segment with the Redraw Path tool
- Change path appearance by varying pressure and speed with Path Scrubber tools
- Slice a path into multiple objects with the Knife tool
- Edit with path operations
- Create one continuous path from two open paths
- Create a composite path
- Break apart a composite path
- Combine selected closed paths as one path enclosing the entire area of the original paths
- Convert a path to a marquee selection
- Create an object from the intersection of other objects
- Remove portions of a path object
- Crop a path
- Simplify a path
- Expand a selected object's stroke
- Contract or expand a path
- Edit paths using the Path panel
- Edit with vector tools
- Chapter 7: Working with text
- Enter text
- Format and edit text
- About fonts
- Previewing fonts
- Specify a typeface size
- Make missing fonts available
- Choose a font family and style
- Insert special characters
- Insert placeholder text
- Apply color to text
- Set spacing between lines and letters
- Set text orientation and alignment
- Set paragraph indention and spacing
- Apply text effects
- Attaching text to a path
- Transform text blocks
- Solidify text
- Import text
- Select replacements for missing fonts
- Check spelling of text
- Chapter 8: Applying color, strokes, and fills
- Applying colors
- Activate, remove, or swap the stroke and fill
- Apply and organize swatches
- Create and modify colors in the Color Mixer
- Create colors using the system color pickers
- Manage colors with the Color Palette panel
- Select colors from a color pop-up window
- Sample colors from a color pop-up window
- Identify color values
- Dither to simulate web-safe colors and transparency
- Kuler panel
- Applying strokes and fills
- Applying colors
- Chapter 9: Using Live Filters
- Applying Live Filters
- Edit and customize Live Filters
- Chapter 10: Layers, masking, and blending
- Layers
- Masking
- About vector masks
- About bitmap masks
- Create a mask from an existing object
- Use auto vector mask
- Mask objects using the Layers panel
- Mask objects by using the Reveal and Hide commands
- About importing and exporting Photoshop layer masks
- Group objects to form a mask
- Select and move masks
- Edit masks
- Change the way masks are applied
- Blending and transparency
- Chapter 11: Styles, symbols, and URLs
- Styles
- Symbols
- URLs
- Chapter 12: Slices, rollovers, and hotspots
- Creating and editing slices
- Interactive slices
- Preparing slices for export
- Hotspots and image maps
- Chapter 13: Creating buttons and pop-up menus
- Navigation basics
- Create button symbols
- Edit button symbols
- Pop-up menus
- Chapter 14: Prototyping websites and application interfaces
- Chapter 15: Creating animations
- Chapter 16: Creating slide shows
- Chapter 17: Optimizing and exporting
- Use the Export Wizard
- Use the Image Preview
- Optimize in the workspace
- Optimize GIF, PNG, TIFF, BMP, and PICT files
- Optimize JPEGs
- Export from the workspace
- Export pages as image files
- Export a single image
- Export a sliced document
- Export an animation
- Export states or layers as multiple files
- Export an area from a document
- Export HTML
- Include comments in exported HTML
- Results of exporting
- Export Fireworks HTML
- Copy HTML code to the Clipboard
- Copy code from an exported Fireworks file and paste it into another HTML document
- Update exported HTML
- Export CSS layers
- Export XHTML
- Export files with and without UTF-8 encoding
- Set HTML export options
- Export Adobe PDF files
- Send a Fireworks document as an e-mail attachment
- Chapter 18: Using Fireworks with other applications
- Working with Dreamweaver
- Working with HomeSite, GoLive, and other HTML editors
- Working with Flash
- Place Fireworks graphics in Flash
- Import Fireworks PNG files into Flash
- Options for importing Fireworks graphics, vector objects, and text
- Copy or drag Fireworks graphics into Flash
- About the Flash library structure
- About importing Fireworks symbols in Flash
- About preserving visibility and locking
- Supported Photoshop layer effects
- Exporting Fireworks graphics to other formats for use in Flash
- Use Fireworks to edit graphics in Flash
- Place Fireworks graphics in Flash
- Working with FreeHand and Illustrator
- Working with Photoshop
- Working with Director
- About Adobe Bridge
- Share image metadata with Adobe XMP
- Chapter 19: Automating tasks
- Finding and replacing
- Select the source for the search
- Set options for finding and replacing in multiple files
- Find and replace text
- Find and replace fonts
- Find and replace colors
- Find and replace URLs
- Find and replace non-websafe colors
- Batch-processing
- Using commands for batch-processing
- Extending Fireworks
- Scripting
- Manage commands
- Chapter 20: Preferences and keyboard shortcuts
- Index