These two tutorials show you how to create a nice bar with a metalic design, of course you can vary with the colors to get gold designs, bronze or whatever you like to see. These 2 tutorials can be used perfectly together.

This tutorial will teach you how to create water drops in Fireworks. It isn't difficult, but if you don't know how to fix it, try this tutorial. Of course you can give your own style to the water drop. For example try something else than a water drop, try a liquid metal drop or a toxic drop, just experiment with it.

Create a convincing lighting effect that rivals Photoshop's built in filter.

Often when creating more difficult selections, you'll find that by combining your bitmap selection tools you can more efficiently create your selection. In this example we'll look at isolating an object by combining the Lasso, Oval Marquee and Magic Wand Tools. QuickTime video version available too.

In this tutorial, you will create a Fireworks command using the History panel. The History panel stores all of your actions in Fireworks as you work. You can then group a sequence of these actions, and save them as a command. The History panel, therefore, is great for recording sequences of actions that you use over and over. You just perform the sequence once, save it as a command, and then the next time you need to perform that sequence of actions, just run the command from the Commands menu and make Fireworks do all the work.

Now that designers and developers can create interactive commands for Fireworks MX—with the help of new features in Flash MX—extensibility is about to become the hot topic in the Fireworks community. Fireworks MX already installs with several new work-saving commands, such as Align and the Data-Driven Graphics Wizard, but these are only the beginning.

Don't miss out on the extensibility excitement as Fireworks users of every skill level begin to share with the world their cool tricks and step-saving scripts. Many of these future commands will be able to receive specific settings and design requirements. In this tutorial, Steven Grosvenor (creator of the new Twist and Fade command) shows you how to plan, design and create (in Macromedia Flash MX) these user-input Fireworks MX commands.

Macromedia Fireworks MX features several new interactive commands—such as Resize Selected Object, Add Arrowheads, and Twist and Fade—that can significantly improve your productivity, not to mention your creativity. In this tutorial, the developer of Twist and Fade demonstrates how to use this intriguing command to convert a few simple shapes instantly into twirling, swirling, dazzling graphics. With multiple settings and options, the command's interactive menu offers endless creative possibilities.

Learn how to create rollover images in Fireworks and Dreamweaver.  It's extremely simple and great fun.

Learn how to create animated gifs using Fireworks.  It's simple and fun.  Cool Graphic animation for the web.

Make a very convincing Mac Aqua style button in only two layers.