Macromedia Fireworks 8 Video Tutorial - Training CD

This Macromedia Fireworks Tutorial Video course is aimed toward web designers who wish to add optimized graphics to their web sites. Fireworks is a very flexible web design application. It can create highly compressed low bandwidth images with no loss of quality, and it's equally at home producing buttons, roll-overs and even dropdown JavaScript menus. Authored by Michael Green, this video-based training course is designed to build the knowledge of an absolute beginner to a standard of competence where professional-looking graphics can be created. This is achieved using step by step instructions in conjunction with clear training videos. Topics covered in this tutorial video series include Vector Images, Creating Text, Symbols and Libraries, Layers, Working with Hotspots and Image maps, Creating Paths, Filters and Effects, Blending modes, Creating for Flash, Exporting HTML code, JavaScript Rollovers, and much more. You may also be interested in our Adobe Fireworks CS3 Tutorial Video. Available online or as one package on CD / DVD.

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Topics covered on this Tutorial Video
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Introduction and Setting Up

The Fireworks Interface

Creating Graphics: Foundations

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Working With Text

  • Creating Text Pt.1
  • Creating Text Pt.2
  • Anti-Aliasing
  • Getting Text from Outside Fireworks
  • Attaching Text to a Path
  • Reshaping Text on a Path
  • Transforming Text (or Any Object)
  • Inserting Special Characters
  • The Text Editor
  • Pasting an Image Inside Text

File and Edit Menus

  • File Menu Pt.1
  • File Menu Pt.2
  • Edit Menu: Undo and Redo
  • Edit Menu: Insert New Button
  • Add Swap Image to Button
  • Add Status Bar Message to Button
  • Add Pop-Up Menu to Button
  • Edit Menu: Symbols and Libraries
  • Built-In Symbols and Libraries
  • Intro to Hotspots and Slices
  • Insert Polygon Slice
  • Empty Bitmap
  • Insert Layers
  • Insert Frames/ Animation
  • Find and Replace
  • Copy / Clone / Copy as Vector

Other Menus

  • The View Menu Pt.1
  • The View Menu Pt.2
  • Select: Super / Sub / Similar / Feather
  • Select: Expand / Border / Smooth Marquee
  • Select: Marquee to Path and Vice Versa
  • Modify > Canvas > Image Size
  • Modify > Canvas > Canvas Size / Color
  • Modify > Canvas > Trim / Fit
  • Modify > Canvas > Rotations
  • Modify > Alter Path > Expand and Inset
  • Modify > Combine Paths > Join
  • The Text Menu
  • The Commands Menu
  • The Filters Menu
  • The Window Menu
  • The Help Menu

The Tools Panel (Toolbox)

  • Pointer and Subselect Tools
  • Marquee and Oval Marquee Tools
  • Lasso and Magic Wand Tools
  • Add / Subtract / Multiply Selection
  • Line Tool
  • Pen Tool
  • Redraw Path Tool
  • Vector Path Tool
  • Pencil: Auto Erase / Anti-alias
  • Pencil / Brush: Preserve Transparency
  • Scale / Skew and Distort Tools
  • Reshaping Paths with the Pen Tool
  • Freeform and Reshape Tools
  • Path Scrubber Tools
  • Paint Bucket and Eyedropper Tools
  • Rubber Stamp Tool
  • Replace Color Tool
  • Red Eye Removal Tool
  • Blur and Smudge
  • Dodge and Burn
  • The Image Editing Panel

Working with Color and Tone

  • Color Palettes
  • RGB and Hexadecimal Color Models
  • CMY / HSB and Grayscale Color Models
  • HSL Color Model
  • 3D Effect w/ Gradient and HSL Luminance
  • Color Bit Depth and Transparency
  • Web Safe Windows and Mac Color Palettes
  • Custom Color Palette / GIF Adaptive
  • Levels
  • Curves
  • Levels and Curves: Auto and Eyedropper

Using Filters

  • Intro: Paths / Strokes / Fills and Filters
  • Adjust Color
  • Blur
  • Noise
  • Bevel and Emboss
  • Convert to Alpha
  • Find Edges
  • Shadow and Glow
  • Sharpen
  • Eye Candy
  • Alien Skin
  • Styles

Layers / Masks and Blend Modes

  • Layers Pt.1
  • Layers Pt.2
  • Vector Masks
  • Bitmap Masks
  • Alpha Masks
  • Blend Modes Intro
  • Blend Modes / Opacity and Filters
  • Blend Modes and Masks
  • Combining Blend Modes Using Color Fill

Fireworks Workflow

  • Creating New Documents
  • Opening / Importing and Pasting
  • Zooming and Scrolling
  • Grouping and Combining Objects
  • Arranging and Aligning Objects
  • The Align Panel

Creating Animation and Interactivity

  • Tweening and Using Frames Pt.1
  • Tweening and Using Frames Pt.2
  • Animation Symbols
  • Flash vs. Animated GIF Export Pt.1
  • Flash vs. Animated GIF Export Pt.2
  • Slices and Hotspots Pt.1: Hotspots
  • Slices and Hotspots Pt.2: Slices
  • HTML Setup
  • Slices with Rollover / Single Image Pt.1
  • Slices with Rollover / Single Image Pt.2
  • Slices / Nav Bar / No HTML Frameset Pt.1
  • Slices / Nav Bar / No HTML Frameset Pt.2
  • Slices / Nav Bar / HTML Frameset Pt.1
  • Slices / Nav Bar / HTML Frameset Pt.2

Optimizing and Exporting

  • Optimizing: Creating Slices
  • Optimizing GIFs
  • Optimizing JPEGs
  • Index Transparency / Matte
  • Multiple Index Colors
  • HTML Slices
  • CSS HTML Rollovers
  • Integrating with Dreamweaver
  • Flash Integration for Exported Files
  • Import PNGs to Flash: with Editablity
  • Import PNGs to Flash: Maintain Appearance

Automating and Extending Fireworks

  • Extension Manager: Enabling and Disabling
  • Extension Manager: Download from Exchange
  • Creating Commands with the History Panel
  • Editing Commands
  • Batch Processing

Conclusion

  • Wrapping Up

Credits

  • About the Author

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Macromedia Fireworks 8 Training - VIDEO INFO

Macromedia Fireworks 8

Michael Thomas Green

9.5 hours - 148 Movies

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