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USING FIREWORKS
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© 2007 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. Adobe® Fireworks® Using Fireworks® If this guide is distributed with software that includes an end user agreement, this guide, as well as the software described in it, is furnished under license and may be used or copied only in accordance with the terms of such license. Except as permitted by any such license, no part of this guide may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or trans- mitted, in any form or by any means, electronic,
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iii Contents Chapter 1: Getting Started Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Adobe Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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iv Checking spelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 Using the Text Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Chapter 7: Applying Color, Strokes, and Fills Using the Colors section of the Tools panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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v Chapter 14: Creating Slideshows The Create Slideshow command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250 Building or editing a slideshow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250 Slideshow properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252 Creating a
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1 Chapter 1: Getting Started Adobe® Fireworks® CS3, a unique hybrid vector and bitmap tool, delivers the most efficient design environment for rapidly prototyping websites and user interfaces, and creating and optimizing images for the web. Fireworks CS3 offers the flexibility to edit both vector and bitmap images, a common library of prebuilt assets, and time-saving integration with Adobe Photoshop® CS3, Adobe Illustrator® CS3, Adobe Dreamweaver® CS3, and Adobe Flash® CS3 Professional softw
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ADOBE FIREWORKS CS3 2 User Guide Note: If you want to install the software on a different computer, you must first deactivate it on your computer. Choose Help > Deactivate. Register Register your product to receive complimentary installation support, notifications of updates, and other services. ❖ To register, follow the on-screen instructions in the Registration dialog box, which appears after you install and activate the software. If you postpone registration, you can register at any time b
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ADOBE FIREWORKS CS3 3 User Guide Most versions of in-product and LiveDocs Help let you search across the Help of multiple products. Topics also contain links to relevant content on the web or to topics in the Help of another product. Think of Help, both in the product and on the web, as a hub for accessing additional content and communities of users. The most complete and up-to-date version of Help is always on the web. Adobe PDF documentation The in-product Help is also available as a Portab
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ADOBE FIREWORKS CS3 4 User Guide • Standard HTML tags define content structure, for screen reading or text-to-speech tools. • Style sheets control formatting, so there are no embedded fonts. Windows keyboard shortcuts for toolbar controls Each control in the toolbar for in-product Help has a keyboard equivalent: Back button Alt+left arrow Forward button Alt+right arrow Print Ctrl+P About button Ctrl+I Browse menu Alt+down arrow or Alt+up arrow to view Help for another program Search box (Windows
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ADOBE FIREWORKS CS3 5 User Guide When you start the Video Workshop, you choose exactly the products and topics you want to learn. You can see details about each video to help focus your learning path. Community of presenters With this release, we invited the Adobe community to share their expertise and insights. Adobe and Lynda.com present tutorials, tips, and tricks from leading designers and developers such as Michael Ninness, Katrin Eismann, and Chris Georgenes. You can see and hear Adobe
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ADOBE FIREWORKS CS3 6 User Guide Plug-ins Plug-in modules are small software programs that extend or add features to your software. Once installed, plug-in modules appear as options in the Import or Export menu; as file formats in the Open, Save As, and Export Original dialog boxes; or as filters in the Filter submenus. Presets Presets comprise a wide variety of useful tools, preferences, effects, and images. Product presets include brushes, swatches, color groups, symbols, custom shapes, gr
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ADOBE FIREWORKS CS3 7 User Guide • Think Tank articles describe how designers engage with technology and what their experiences mean for design, design tools, and society. • In Dialog Box, experts share new ideas in motion graphics and digital design. • The Gallery showcases how artists communicate design in motion. Visit Adobe Design Center at www.adobe.com/designcenter. Adobe Developer Center Adobe Developer Center provides samples, tutorials, articles, and community resources for developers
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ADOBE FIREWORKS CS3 8 User Guide User communities Features forums, blogs, and other avenues for users to share technologies, tools, and information; ask questions; and find out how others are getting the most out of their software. User-to-user forums are available in English, French, German, and Japanese; blogs are posted in a wide range of languages. To participate in forums or blogs, visit www.adobe.com/communities. What’s new in Fireworks CS3 Create rich symbols This version of Fireworks i
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ADOBE FIREWORKS CS3 9 User Guide Add multiple pages to a single document In a never-ending effort to improve web-design workflows, Fireworks CS3 makes it easy to build complex multi- page web prototypes using a single PNG file. Each page contains its own settings for canvas document, size, color, image resolution, and guides. These settings can be set on a per-page basis, or globally across all pages in the document. Taking the multi-page concept one step further, Fireworks layers can apply to
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ADOBE FIREWORKS CS3 10 User Guide Work with Photoshop files With Fireworks CS3, you can directly import native files from Photoshop. Achieving a whole new level of function- ality, Adobe is redefining the concept of what integration should be. Fireworks design comps and images can now be saved as native Photoshop files and opened in either Photoshop or Fireworks CS3 with layer information preserved. Improved Photoshop compatibility Photoshop layer effects Photoshop provides a variety of effect
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ADOBE FIREWORKS CS3 11 User Guide Adobe Bridge Simplify file handling in Fireworks and within Adobe Creative Suite with Adobe Bridge, the next-generation file browser. Efficiently browse, tag, search, and process your images. Using Bridge and Fireworks together means you can take advantage of XMP metadata in your files. Adobe XMP (Extensible Metadata Platform) is a technology that assists the user in adding file information to files saved in PNG, GIF, JPEG, Photoshop, and TIFF formats, and fa
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12 Chapter 2: Fireworks Basics Fireworks CS3 is a software program for designing professional on-screen graphics. Its innovative solutions tackle the major problems facing graphic designers and webmasters. Using the wide range of tools in Fireworks, you can create and edit both vector and bitmap graphics within a single file. The advent of Fireworks freed web designers from having to jump back and forth among as many as a dozen task- specific applications. Its nondestructive Live Filters elimi
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ADOBE FIREWORKS CS3 13 User Guide You can also use the Fireworks tools to edit imported graphics. You can import and edit files in JPEG, GIF, PNG, PSD, and many other file formats. After you import a graphic image, you can adjust its color and tone, as well as crop, retouch, and mask it. Interactive graphics Slices and hotspots are web objects that specify interactive areas in a web graphic. Slices cut an image into different sections to which you can apply rollover behaviors, animation, and
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ADOBE FIREWORKS CS3 14 User Guide About vector graphics Vector graphics render images using lines and curves, called vectors, that include color and position information. For example, the image of a leaf may be defined by a series of points that describe the outline of the leaf. The color of the leaf is determined by the color of its outline (the stroke) and the color of the area enclosed by the outline (the fill) When you edit a vector graphic, you modify the properties of the lines and cur
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ADOBE FIREWORKS CS3 15 User Guide Creating a new document When you select File > New to create a new document in Fireworks, you create a Portable Network Graphic, or PNG document. PNG is the native file format for Fireworks. After you create graphics in Fireworks, you can export or save them in other familiar web graphic formats, such as JPEG, GIF, and animated GIF. You can also export or save graphics in many of the popular formats used off the web, such as TIFF, PSD, and BMP. Whatever optim
