Fireworks, the new Web-graphics tool from Macromedia, is impressively versatile: you can create illustrations, edit photos, add text, build animations, apply image maps, and more. Ideal for beginners and intermediate users, this Visual QuickStart Guide helps you learn Fireworks quickly and easily. The book teaches you all about the interface and helps you set up new documents, work with color, create and manipulate paths and vector-based objects, apply fills and effects, use brushes, add and edit text, edit pixel-based images, import and export files, create image maps, work with slices (specially defined areas of images), create rollovers, and build animations. An appendix illustrates the default settings for textures, patterns, gradients, brushes, and effects, and another provides keyboard shortcuts. The book is full of clear step-by-step instruction, brief introductions to each task, and helpful screen shots. There are no obscure technical discussions to weigh you down--just explanations of features so you can get right to work. A full-color section illuminates a few issues regarding palettes, file formats, and color. --Kathleen Caster
From Library Journal
Macromedia's Fireworks is one of the several new graphic programs designed just for web graphics (e.g., Director, Flash, and DreamWeaver). Fireworks produces vector graphics based on the formulas for drawing an image rather than the image itself. Because Macromedia offers Fireworks on a free 30-day download, there will be many more users than buyers, and these users will need a book. This QuickStart has exactly what a user needs to get launched with Fireworks.
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