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Macromedia® Fireworks® 8: Training from the Source
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Macromedia® Fireworks® 8: Training from the Source

by Patti Schulze
September 2005
Beginner content levelBeginner
304 pages
6h 54m
English
Adobe Press
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Chapter 1. Bitmap Editing

Macromedia Fireworks 8 is both a bitmap editor and a vector drawing program. By combining these drawing methods into the same application, Fireworks gives you a very powerful and versatile set of tools.

Bitmaps are images that are composed of pixels. As with paint on a canvas, you can’t just remove a mistake–you need to erase or “paint” over the mistake. Vector objects are images composed of mathematical lines and therefore can be moved and reshaped or even deleted with minimal effort.

Fireworks combines the look of bitmap images with the flexibility, control, and editability of vector graphics in a single environment. You can create soft, fuzzy drop shadows on objects and then change the shape of the object, and the drop ...

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