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- Contents
- Getting Started
- Graphic Design Basics Tutorial
- What you’ll learn
- What you should know
- Copy the Tutorials folder
- View the completed file
- Create and save a new document
- Explore the Fireworks work environment
- Create and edit vector objects
- Import a bitmap and select pixels
- Add and edit Live Effects
- Work with layers and objects
- Create and edit a mask
- Create and edit text
- Export the document
- Take the next steps
- Web Design Basics Tutorial
- What you’ll learn
- What you should know
- Copy the Tutorials folder
- View the completed web page
- Open the source file
- Import a graphic
- Slice the document
- Create a drag-and-drop rollover
- Create and edit buttons to make a navigation bar
- Create and edit a pop-up menu
- Optimize the document
- Export HTML
- Test the completed file
- Take the next steps
- Fireworks Basics
- About vector and bitmap graphics
- About working in Fireworks
- Creating a new document
- Opening and importing files
- Saving Fireworks files
- The Fireworks work environment
- Changing the canvas
- Selecting and Transforming Objects
- Selecting objects
- Selecting pixels
- Bitmap selection tool options
- Creating pixel selection marquees
- Adjusting selection marquees
- Moving a marquee
- Adjusting a marquee selection with the Spacebar
- Adding to a pixel selection
- Subtracting pixels from a selection
- Creating a marquee from intersecting marquees
- Using thumbnails and modifier keys to modify pixel selections
- Creating an inverse pixel selection
- Feathering a pixel selection
- Expanding or contracting a marquee
- Selecting an area around an existing marquee
- Smoothing the border of a marquee
- Transferring a marquee selection
- Saving and restoring marquee selections
- Creating and moving a floating pixel selection
- Inserting a new bitmap by cutting or copying
- Editing selected objects
- Transforming and distorting selected objects and selections
- Organizing objects
- Working with Bitmaps
- Working with Vector Objects
- Drawing vector objects
- Drawing basic shapes
- Drawing freeform paths
- Drawing paths by plotting points
- Drawing straight path segments
- Drawing curved path segments
- Adjusting the shape of a straight path segment
- Adjusting the shape of a curved path segment
- Converting path segments to straight or curved
- Selecting points
- Moving points and point handles
- Inserting and deleting points on a path
- Continuing an existing path
- Merging two open paths
- Auto-joining similar open paths
- Editing paths
- Drawing vector objects
- Using Text
- Entering text
- Editing text
- Applying strokes, fills, and effects to text
- Attaching text to a path
- Transforming text
- Converting text to paths
- Importing text
- Checking spelling
- Using the Text Editor
- Applying Color, Strokes, and Fills
- Using Live Effects
- Layers, Masking, and Blending
- Using Styles, Symbols, and URLs
- Slices, Rollovers, and Hotspots
- Creating Buttons and Pop-up Menus
- Creating button symbols
- About button states
- Using the Button Editor
- Creating a simple two-state button
- Creating a three- or four-state button
- Using bevel effects to draw button states
- Converting Fireworks rollovers into buttons
- Inserting buttons into a document
- Importing button symbols
- Editing button symbols
- Setting interactive button properties
- Creating navigation bars
- Creating pop-up menus
- Creating button symbols
- Creating Animation
- Optimizing and Exporting
- About optimizing
- Using the Export Wizard
- Optimizing in the workspace
- Using preset optimization settings
- Previewing and comparing optimization settings
- Choosing a file type
- Optimizing GIFs, PNGs, TIFFs, BMPs, and PICTs
- Choosing a color palette
- Setting the color depth
- Removing unused colors
- Dithering to approximate lost colors
- Viewing colors in a palette
- Locking colors in a palette
- Editing colors in a palette
- Using websafe colors
- Saving palettes
- Adjusting compression
- Making areas transparent
- Interlacing: Downloading gradually
- Optimizing JPEGs
- Matching a target background color
- Saving and reusing optimization settings
- Exporting from Fireworks
- Using the Quick Export button
- Using Fireworks with Other Applications
- Working with Macromedia Dreamweaver MX
- Working with Macromedia Flash MX
- Placing Fireworks files into Flash
- Importing Fireworks PNG files into Flash
- Copying and pasting Fireworks graphics into Flash
- About exporting Fireworks graphics to other formats for use in Flash
- Exporting Fireworks graphics and animations as SWF files
- Exporting PNGs with transparency
- Importing exported Fireworks graphics and animations into Flash
- Using Fireworks to edit graphics imported into Flash
- About extending Fireworks with custom commands created in Flash
- Placing Fireworks files into Flash
- Working with Macromedia FreeHand
- Working with Macromedia Director
- Working with Macromedia HomeSite
- Working with Microsoft FrontPage
- Working with Adobe Photoshop
- About working with Adobe GoLive
- About working with HTML editors
- Automating Repetitive Tasks
- Finding and replacing
- Batch processing
- Changing optimization settings with a batch process
- Scaling graphics with a batch process
- Finding and replacing during a batch process
- Changing filenames with a batch process
- Performing commands with a batch process
- Specifying the batch process output location
- Saving batch processes as scripts
- Running scripts by dragging and dropping
- Using the Project Log
- Extending Fireworks
- Preferences and Keyboard Shortcuts
- Setting preferences
- Changing keyboard shortcut sets
- Working with configuration files
- About user configuration files
- About master configuration files that affect all users
- Locating configuration files
- Location of the Fireworks preferences file
- Customizing configuration files for all users
- About reinstalling Fireworks
- Viewing package contents (Macintosh only)
- Running Fireworks MX Classic (Macintosh only)
- Index