Fireworks
Fireworks has been a designer favorite for years. Now integrated fully with industry standard Adobe applications Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash, and including support for rich interactive PDFs, Fireworks has become the most popular and powerful tool for prototyping Web, mobile, and application interfaces.
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Add Some Noise in Fireworks! This is a little technique to add some subtle detail to your next project. Adding a little noise to the graphics provides some texture to the layout and gives it a depth that wouldn’t be there in a plain or…
- PNG compression on iPhone/iPad
I was having a discussion with a coworker about png compression for the iphone and wanted to resolve the issue of whether we should bundle Fireworks source assets in xcode for quick editing and recompiling, or if we should export…
- Stars and Sparkles
The star auto shape in Adobe Fireworks is a versatile auto shape and can be used to create polygons: sparkles, stars, triangles, stickers or even flowers. In this tutorial you learn how to use auto shapes and to create stars…
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When Pixels Snap: Antialiasing in Illustrator CS5 Over the years, designers using Illustrator to create web graphics have faced two main issues: Graphics and text often appear soft or fuzzy when exported, especially when compared to similar graphics or text exported from Photoshop Extra pixels are sometimes…
- Fw or Ps effects mapping flexibility
Fireworks CS5 allows for better importing of psd files. There is one small feature which is overlooked by many people that the effects in the psd file can be converted to native Fireworks effects or matained as Ps effects. In…
- Gift Ribbon – Download Of The Week
Our download of the week is a gift ribbon. It’s perfect for wrapping up your ebook ,software , books for gift promos and more. Here are some tips for using the ribbon image : To change the color of the…
- Web Icons
I am forever doing admin utilities for our web projects. CMS, Link managers, Photo Uploaders etc. With my limited art/fireworks skills I could never make anything that looked right :P. The other day I found a great website for icons. …
- 7 Reasons Why I Choose Fireworks Over Photoshop
My name is Russell McGovern and I use Fireworks to design websites. There, I said it. I could be wrong, but it feels like I’m in a small minority; among web designers, the application of choice seems to be Photoshop.…
- DeviantART Muro
DevianART Muro is the latest innovation from deviantART , the largest community of artists worldwide. It was released a few days ago in celebration with deviantART’s 10th year anniversary as an added feature to the members. So what does it…
- Adobe Fireworks Tutorial – Creating A Candy Button
In this Adobe Fireworks tutorial , you will learn how I created those nice looking icons ( twitter , rss , mail ) icons in the top right area of my header, and the social media icon pack I submitted…
- Text Kerning in Adobe Fireworks
Kerning refers to adjusting the space between two letters. In Adobe Fireworks , the default horizontal kerning or “tracking” is 0. If we use only 1 word , it can easily be kerned by using the justified alignment button or…
- Social Media Icon Pack – Fireworks Png Of The Week
Since we didn’t have a fireworks png of the week download last week , I decided to create a special social media icon pack to be used on websites and blogs. It has 28 icons total, 7 different icon styles…
- 4 Essential Extensions for Adobe Fireworks
Here are a few of my essential Adobe Fireworks’ extensions. As much as I love Fireworks and work with it almost everyday, I find that its native creative toolset still has some gaping holes when compared to other vector based…
- All the good Tweets about Fireworks CS5, and the CS4 patch
- Fireworks CS5, and the CS4 patch
- uigfx project: Flex4 primitives library / Fireworks extension
I just released a new project, called by Erick uigfx, that I have introduced in my previous post (in french). So : it’s a Flex4 primitives’s library, which allows you to extend standard graphics primitives. It’s also one (and more…
- Announcing Flash, Dreamweaver, and Fireworks CS5
Adobe Creative Suite 5 was announced yesterday. To get an idea of what improvements and new features you can expect from Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and Flash Professional, refer to the following articles: Introducing Dreamweaver CS5: CSS, CMS support, Site Setup, BrowserLab…
- Moving Fw assets across machines
If you have custom panels, extensions and other Fireworks assets you would like to move from one machine to another, just copy the appropriate sub-folders under the location mentioned below into the new machine: WINDOWS XP: <OS Drive>:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application…
- Fw Crash report looked at by engineers
If you are wondering what happens to the crash reports that you send with comments, they get a look by me or other engineers on the Fireworks team. We have to read all kind of langauge and data entered to…
- Fw CS5- state name changes
There is a small change in how States are automatically named when exported. This will also lead to some changes when slices are exported in the different states. The changes in beahvior from Fireworks CS4 to CS5 have been documented…
- Adobe Fireworks Tutorials From Vision Union
Vision Union is a Chinese website that focuses on China’s design industry , it also has tutorials in Adobe Fireworks that you might want to check out. Take note that the ten tutorials posted here were written in Chinese ,…
- Lubris Style Pack for Adobe Fireworks
This is my new style pack for Adobe Fireworks , with 20 fill styles , 2 stroke styles and 3 text styles to choose from. The Koz artwork I designed was made using different colors of the two stroke styles…
- Sparkle in Adobe Fireworks
This tutorial is for beginners using Adobe Fireworks. It’s an easy technique that can add finishing touches to your design. 1.) First we must start a new canvas, choose a dark color for your canvas color preferably black , and…
- Greenleaf Deviantart Journal Skin – Fireworks Png of The Week
The greenleaf journal skin was a project I made for my deviantart journal , www.blue2x.deviantart.com but I was never able to code it into css and use it as my own journal. Only premium members of deviantart can add a…
- New tutorials on Fireworks, Photoshop, and Acrobat
We recently added new content to Adobe Design Center. The new content from our most recent refresh is as follows. New Dialog Box: http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/dialogbox/ Adobe Magazine for Creative Professionals (September issue) http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/dialogbox/adobemag3.html New tutorials: http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/tutorials/ Typographic design with Photoshop Adobe…
- Koz – Fireworks PNG of The Week
Koz – something fresh for you guys to download, it has been a while since I last created fireworks abstract artworks, so here it is. The dot effect is just drawing a single path, and then changing the stroke style…
- Summer Time
Fireworks Zone is taking a break from July 11th to July 30th 2010 and you will be able to see me at Juan les Pins (South of France near Antibes).
- Holy Crap I’m a Mobile Developer: Materials
I’m posting all of the materials so that if you want to fool around with anything you saw in my demos, you’re all set. It contains: Fireworks Composition in PNG 6 FXP files for the various stages of the application…
- Export All States in All Pages
This Fireworks command allows you to export all states in all pages. Continue reading »
- Fireworks PNG of The Week – Adobe Strikes Team Logo
I made this logo in Adobe Fireworks just for fun , if ever Adobe had a soccer team, it would be the Adobe Strikers ! hehe I made this logo in Adobe Fireworks just for fun , if ever Adobe…
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