Adobe Fireworks CS4 Classroom in a Book [Paperback]

Adobe Creative Team (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0321612191 | ISBN-13: 978-0321612199 | Publication Date: April 30, 2009 | Edition: 1

This self-paced guide to Adobe Fireworks CS4 is ideal for beginning users who want to learn key Fireworks concepts and techniques, while readers who already have some experience with Fireworks can use this book to learn Fireworks CS4's more advanced features and newest tools. Using step-by-step, project-based lessons, each chapter walks readers through the creation of a specific project, with successive chapters building on the reader's growing knowledge of the program.
With Fireworks CS4, users can collaborate with other Adobe Creative Suite applications to design and mockup basic Web pages or interfaces for rich Internet applications. Demo a design live for a client, or export the design as an interactive PDF and email it to them. Fireworks sports a new user interface, shared in common with other applications in Creative Suite 4. Export complete Web page designs as web standards-compliant CSS-based layouts, or as PDF

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About the Author

The Adobe Creative Team is made up of designers, writers, and editors who have extensive, real-world knowledge of and expertise in using Adobe products. They work closely with the Adobe product development teams and Adobe's Instructional Communications team to come up with creative, challenging, and visually appealing projects to help both new and more experienced users get up to speed quickly on Adobe software products.

Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Adobe Press; 1 edition (April 30, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321612191
• ISBN-13: 978-0321612199
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #426,378 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #11 in Books > Computers & Technology > Graphic Design > Web Design > Fireworks

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent as Expected, July 10, 2009

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SoCal Thom (CA United States) - See all my reviews

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The Adobe Classroom in a Book series is, as one would expect, a dependable source of basic instruction on the fundamentals of a given software title. The Fireworks title is no different: eleven lessons that move from the most basic functions, to progressively more complex. Fireworks is, in my view, an undeservedly poor cousin of powerhouses Photoshop and Illustrator. The program is incredibly useful for preparing client comps and on-screen images. As a new Fireworks user, I have become a real fan of the program, and the CIB book was a very good introduction. The included CD features all the working files needed to complete the lessons, as well as two bonus chapters/lessons. If you learn best in a tutorial environment, where practice is emphasized rather than theory, you can't go wrong with this one.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Basic guide to Fireworks cs4, November 11, 2009

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No book can make one creative and certainly this book does not intend to do so. It is a quick guide to the "how to?" of the basics of Fireworks. It is a step by step guide of the most important
tasks that needs doing using bitmap art. There are not many books written on Fireworks CS4, which makes this book a "no alternative, but to have". Using the know-how it gives, and combining
it with your own creativeness, you will get far, Especially if one is designing artwork for the Web, this book is will assist you in understanding how to optimize your files.

I recommend this book for absolute beginners in the use of the software. You follow the lessons and you'll be able to drive around Fireworks CS4 quite comfortably. Good luck!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Work through this book and you will know Fireworks, September 3, 2009

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I have enjoyed the Adobe Classroom in a Book/Macromedia Training From The Source and Lynda Weinman Hands-On Training books for years now. With the Lynda series migrating to by-subscription Online Training, the Classroom in a Book series is THE place for those who want to learn programs in Creative Suite CS4 and enjoy reading books as opposed to online tutorials. This particular entry in that series is really great. Is is not overly verbose, yet introduces so many Fireworks concepts and techniques that it covers more than way fatter books. The pages are in color, which is nice, and the lesson files work well. I agree with the other reviewer that has issues with the PDFs, but they are just bonus lessons. I highly recommend this title.