Discusses how to use Macromedia Fireworks 2.0 to open and edit a wide range of bitmap and vector graphics formats, optimize and export to popular Web graphics formats, and get precise control over text with Fireworks' full-featured typographic capabilities. Softcover.
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Short Order Macromedia Fireworks 2 describes Fireworks as the Swiss Army knife of Web-graphics programs--it does everything for you. Since it can work with both vector and bitmap graphics, you no longer have to have a drawing and painting application open simultaneously. You can also apply 3-D effects to images or create GIF animations with the software. And Fireworks helps optimize and export graphics for the Web, including any necessary HTML and JavaScript.
Standalone task-oriented lessons on all these features make it easy for readers to follow along while sitting at the computer. Supplementary tips and notes show shortcuts and alternate commands and give insight and background information on how the application works. Introductory chapters cover opening documents, optimizing images, and batch processing. Middle chapters go over all the Fireworks tools that make it good at creating and manipulating images for the Web (including customization of the palettes, textures, and brushes). Next the book shows how to create image maps, 3-D rollover buttons (including "toggle groups" perfect for navigational bars), sliced GIFs, and GIF animations. The final chapter shows how to use Fireworks as your main graphics application, exporting art for use in Director or Flash, preparing artwork for print, and other uses. The presentations, even in the later chapters, break each step down into simple procedures. Beginners with some experience with Photoshop and Illustrator won't have any trouble following along.
The explanations are clear and concise (with several screen shots and illustrations per lesson), and users can easily substitute their own projects and artwork into the steps. Plus the book lies flat on the desk and shows only a few steps per spread--think of it as a good graphics "cookbook." You'll learn how to use Fireworks, and you'll get your work done in the process. (Note: changes in Fireworks 3 affect some lessons.) --Angelynn Grant
Topics covered: Step-by-step instruction on using Fireworks 2, including creating, manipulating, and optimizing art for the Web; batch processing; working with vector and bitmap images; retouching scanned images; working with text; customizing palettes and tools; creating images maps, rollovers and GIF animations; and using Fireworks for other uses beyond the Web.
From the Back Cover
Learn the "how-to" behind great-looking, fast downloading Web graphics through practical examples that teach the fundamentals of creating Web graphics in a visual, hands-on way. You are guided through levels of graphic creation in a visual approach that uses screenshots, concise, focused examples, and practical exercises that include importing and exporting graphics, editability, animation, tweening, and text and production issues. The book explains the processes that take advantage of Fireworks' strengths, while providing insightful information for dealing with its weaknesses. Includes Fireworks solutions in a step-by-step format that you can apply to your own work.
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29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Disapointment!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Short Order Macromedia Fireworks 2 (Paperback)
This book is a disapointment after reading the misleading Editorial review. Essentially, this book is a close takeoff from the macromedia book that comes with the Fireworks software. It is a cookbook approach that tells you what clicks to make for a given end result. Chapter 1 page 14, step 6 states "If you want to rasterize complex blends, and tiled fills, click the Groups Blends, and Tiled Fills check boxes in Render As Images to turn on preferences. Then select a threshold number for the number of objects or steps a selection must contain before Fireworks rasterizes it during import." This is page 14, involving Opening Vector Graphics. Anyone who thinks this is clear and explains very much to the uninitiated, will hardly be able to wait to get to page 315!Instead of creating simple tasks for the reader to perform, in graduated steps, to acquire the necessary skills to utilize the Fireworks software effectively, the authors have chosen to emulate the Fireworks user manual. The result is to produce an equally esoteric, and relatively uncomprehensible book for anyone seeking a clear understanding of a rather pricey piece of software! Please check it out for yourself! I wish you well!
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A good book for more advance users,
By Hanvan (Cupertino, California) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Short Order Macromedia Fireworks 2 (Paperback)
I don't have the user's manual for Macromedia Fireworks and found that this book has many features that are hidden in the program itself. The authors show a great understanding of animation steps beyond the rudimentary that anyone can do in Fireworks. One can learned the basics of Fireworks from cutting up graphics to basic animations from the tutorial that comes with the program. This book shows what you can do beyond the basics.A word of caution, this is a book for intermediate to advance users.
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