Special Edition Using Macromedia Fireworks MX

Chapter 8. Working with Color

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Introducing Basic Color Theory and Color Terminology	168
Creating Colors with the Mixer	174
Creating and Managing Color Palettes with the Swatch Panel	178
Fireworks At Work: Developing Web Site Color Schemes and Palettes in Coordination	183

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Introducing Basic Color Theory and Color Terminology

Using color is central to working within any image editing application. More specifically, a basic working knowledge of digital color—how computers encode and reproduce color—is vital in a number of diverse tasks. On a computer, colors are represented digitally, and everything you do with color, from darkening colors to mixing new ones, amounts to manipulating the numeric values that ...