Adobe® Fireworks® CS6 Classroom in a Book®: The official training workbook from Adobe Systems

4. Working with Bitmap Selections

Lesson overview

Making selections on a bitmap image is an important component of working with bitmaps. Bitmap selections isolate a specific area for alteration, protecting all other areas from being affected. For example, you might want to brighten a dark part of an image. By delineating a selection, you can ensure your change in pixel brightness is applied to the desired area only, not the entire photo. In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

• Create a selection with the Magic Wand tool

• Adjust the edge of a bitmap selection

• Apply corrective filters to a selection

• Make complex selections using the Lasso and Magic Wand tools

• Modify a bitmap selection

• Save a bitmap selection for future ...