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Adobe Fireworks CS4 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques

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Adobe Fireworks is a pretty underrated app, and I just recently discovered it myself. Looking around online I found very little resources to tell me just what the heck this thing does. Even Adobe's website if missing the usual gloat about features.

I picked up this book to get a nice overview of what this program is capable of, and in that respect it delivers quite nicely. This is not a comprehensive guide, but, you should know that just by the title. The book is well written, and delivers just enough content where it counts.

I do wish that the chapter on 'Designing Interfaces' was a bit more in depth, but all in all I think the material is pretty well rounded, and definitely worth the $20 I spent.

The Fireworks CS4 How-Tos book has a lot of useful tips but it is very frustrating to find any support, errata, etc. for the book on the publisher's website (unlike the Friends Of Ed book series which has much better support). The URL given for animated gif in-depth tutorials at the Tweening Animation page doesn't work. After searching the site referred to at Community MX, I was unable to find any such articles.

This book is great. I'm new to graphic design, but I've been learning Dreamweaver for the last year. I wanted to make logos for my websites using vector sets from ShutterStock.com, and Fireworks is perfect for that. This was one of the only books available, so I bought it. It was easy to follow and points out what is already fairly intuitive about FW. After several steps, I was cruising along and able to do exactly what I set out to do. And I did it in one afternoon. I've also taken some of Jim Babbage's classes on Lynda.com, and he's a great teacher. He has a good sense of humor and it's obvious he enjoys his work.

If you are new to fireworks and need to learn the basics this book may be for you. However if you need to learn more advanced features I would not recommend this book. You can go online and get the same and more information by doing a Google search so save your money. Also, the black & white images leave a lot to be desired. Some before and after images in the book are so greyed out that it is close to impossible to see the difference. I can't really recommend this book if you have used Fireworks at all.

I've yet to sit down and go chapter by chapter with this book. However, I did flick through it and see some interesting information that I can use to help better my web design skills. The seller sold this to me in good condition and didn't have to wait to long to get it in the mail.

This book covers the basics in a clear and easy to follow way. Good resource book

The received the book in a timely manner. The item was advertised under "used" category but was practically new.