Book description
This self-paced guide to Adobe Fireworks CS4 is ideal for
beginning users who want to learn key Fireworks concepts and
techniques, while readers who already have some experience with
Fireworks can use this book to learn Fireworks CS4's more advanced
features and newest tools. Using step-by-step, project-based
lessons, each chapter walks readers through the creation of a
specific project, with successive chapters building on the reader's
growing knowledge of the program.
With Fireworks CS4, users can collaborate with other Adobe Creative
Suite applications to design and mockup basic Web pages or
interfaces for rich Internet applications. Demo a design live for a
client, or export the design as an interactive PDF and email it to
them. Fireworks sports a new user interface, shared in common with
other applications in Creative Suite 4. Export complete Web page
designs as web standards-compliant CSS-based layouts, or as PDF
Table of contents
- Copyright
- What’s on the Disc
- Getting Started
- 1. Getting to Know the Workspace
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2. Working with Bitmap Images
- Lesson overview
- Resolution and file size
- Cropping an image
- Managing images on the canvas
- Importing images
- Distortion-free bitmap scaling
- Adjusting tonal range
- Using the Align panel
- Adjusting brightness with the Dodge and Burn tools
- Applying the Unsharp Mask Live Filter
- Repairing areas with the Rubber Stamp tool
- Review questions
- Review answers
- 3. Working with Selections
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4. Working with Vector Graphics
- Lesson overview
- About vectors
- Basic vector drawing techniques
- Changing the appearance of basic vector shapes
- Scaling vector objects
- Adding text to your design
- Working with Auto Shapes
- Understanding paths and the Pen tool
- Editing paths
- Creating custom shapes
- Customizing fills and strokes
- Review questions
- Review answers
- 5. The Layers Panel—Your Best Friend
- 6. Masking
- 7. Working with Text
- 8. Optimizing for the Web
- 9. Using Symbols
- 10. Prototyping Basics
- 11. Advanced Prototyping
- 12. Improving Your Workflow
- 13. Going Further
- Contributor
- Production Notes
Product information
- Title: Adobe Fireworks CS4 Classroom in a Book
- Author(s):
- Release date: April 2009
- Publisher(s): Adobe Press
- ISBN: 9780321639615
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