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Fireworks Glass letters tutorial
by Frank Beverdam (November 30, 2007)

Fireworks Glass letters tutorial This is a great tutorial that produces fancy glass letters as in the example below;
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Pop up menu
by Frank Beverdam (July 29, 2005)

Pop up menu

Web Thang has a great tutorial on how to create a popup menu.

Macromedia's Fireworks has a great new feature for building "pop up menu's" like the one illustrated below. In this tutorial we will look at the technique used to build this pop up, and explore some customisation options.

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Creating custom strokes
by Frank Beverdam (July 29, 2005)

Creating custom strokes

Another great tutorial from Macromedia.com; creating strokes tells you how to customize your strokes.

By customizing stroke characteristics, you can change the appearance of a path to create a variety of effects from a soft-edged airbrush look to a splattered paint effect.

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Creating Macromedia Fireworks MX documents from HTML
by Frank Beverdam (July 29, 2005)

Creating Macromedia Fireworks MX documents from HTML

Macromedia has got a great tutorial on how to create a Fireworks document from HTML.

Macromedia Fireworks MX offers a solution: the ability to reconstitute (or import) HTML tables, so that you can create new PNG source files for the content. Once in Fireworks MX, web content can be modified in any number of ways.

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Creating Swap Images in Fireworks
by Frank Beverdam (July 22, 2005)

Creating Swap Images in Fireworks

Smartwebby has a cool tutorial on creating swap images in Fireworks.

Using Swap Images is one of the most interesting and attractive graphic idea in designing a web site. We rate it 10/10 among our web design ideas. Macromedia Fireworks makes it so simple to create and use swaps for your web site. You must try it out!

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Creating an MXP Texture Extension for Fireworks
by Frank Beverdam (July 15, 2005)

Creating an MXP Texture Extension for Fireworks

Thierry Lorey has written an intersting tutorial on creating your own textures and packing them in an Macromedia eXtension Package (an MXP file).

 

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Extending Fireworks
by Frank Beverdam (July 15, 2005)

Extending Fireworks

Kleanthis Economou has posted a great tutorial on extending Fireworks;

Fireworks offers a plethora of tools and one of the best things about it is that you can do something in many different ways. However, the ability to customize it even further to address my specific problems or the conform to the way you like to work is the one thing that makes Fireworks an irreplaceable item in your toolkit.

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Mounded button
by Frank Beverdam (July 8, 2005)

Mounded button

First Circle Open a new document and with the Ellipse Tool draw a 80 px diameter circle. Add a White & Black gradient as in the left picture. Turn your vector object into a bitmap: right clic and

select > Flatten Selection (Convert to Bitmap) 

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Creating a Spinning Graphic
by Frank Beverdam (July 8, 2005)

Creating a Spinning Graphic This tutorial will show you how to make an object appear to "flip" in three dimensions. You're going to create a beveled rectangle for this project, but can be apply the same technique to a standard bitmap object too.
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Changing an Image Color in Fireworks
by Frank Beverdam (July 1, 2005)

Changing an Image Color in Fireworks

This is an effective technique for changing the color of an image or a particular area of an image. In this tutorial you will learn how to change the color of a particular area of the image.

 

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