Adobe Fireworks Training

Introduction To Adobe Fireworks Training Course:

The Fireworks was initially developed & was launched by Macromedia as Macromedia Fireworks &it was packaged with Macromedia Dreamweaver a leading WYSIWHG Web Editor. Adobe Fireworks is an bitmap & the Vector Graphics Editor which is mainly used by Web Designers & the Application Designers to create & design Web Interfaces & the Application interface for the Prototyping & Demonstration purposes. Adobe Fireworks integrates with the Adobe Dream Waver & the Adobe Flash & it has Adobe Photoshop integration tools. Its available as an independent software as part of Adobe CS6 & also comes bundled with the Adobe Creative Cloud Subscription service. Though Adobe has officially stopped adding features to its already rich web design editor it has a large world following and close to 44% web designers around the world Adobe Fireworks for Web & App prototyping purpose.

Adobe Fireworks Online Training Course Content

1: Bitmap Editing

Difference between bitmap & vector graphics
Fireworks interface
floating & docked panel groups
Property Inspector
Crop tool & Magic W&
Info panel
Select specific areas of an image
Lasso & Polygon Lasso tools &Marquee tools
Add & subtract selections in bitmap mode
Move, copy & save selections
Red Eye Removal tool
Scale an image
Change image size
Rubber Stamp & Smudge tool
Eraser tool

2: sing Vector Tools

Guides for placing & aligning objects
Draw with the Ellipse &Polygon tools
Scale & Rotate objects
Use the History panel to replay actions
Mask an object using Paste Inside
Add Live Filters
Group objects
Import graphics
Trim the canvas

3: Working with Layers & Text

Examine the Layers panel
Add & name your layers
Property inspector for precise positioning & sizing of objects
Rename, Show , hide & lock a layer
Auto Shape Rounded Rectangle tool
Add a texture & a drop shadow
Change the stacking order of a layer
Use single-layer editing
Use the default fill & stroke colors
Align objects
Add & format text
Use the spell checker
Use the Text Editor
Use the Line & Subselection tools
Use the Paste Attributes commands
Add arrowheads to a line

4: Advanced Techniques

Combine simple shapes into complex objects
Use techniques for saving & duplicating your actions
Create a CD
Create a gradient
Change the opacity of an object
Add text to a path
Convert text to a path
Use the Intersect & Crop commands
Applying Transformations

5: Creating Buttons, Slices & Hotspots

Use the Button Editor to create buttons
Add a new button from an existing button
Make changes to the button
Add links to buttons
Turn graphics into buttons
Add hotspots to an image to create an image map
Work with the Web Layer
Add slices to your page
Add frames to the document
Create disjointed rollovers
View your page in full-screen mode

6: Optimizing & Exporting

Examine the various color palettes available in Fireworks
Export wizard
Choose the right image format
4-up Preview Button
Set the target export file size
Optimize panel
Previewing in the browser
Save export settings
Save as HTML
Quick Export Button

7: Creating GIF Animations, Masks, & Pop-up Menus

Create GIF animations
Use onion skinning
Change the playback settings for an animated GIF image
Use tweening to rotate an item
Create symbols & use the symbol library
Create a base template for your pages
Use Group as Mask to isolate an image
Paint on a mask
Use text as a mask
Create a text slice
Add a pop-up menu
Edit the pop-up menu

8: Integrating with Adobe Dreamweaver

Batch process several images
Export & view your pages for Dreamweaver
Create a local site in Dreamweaver
Set Dreamweaver preferences
Add links in Dreamweaver
Edit a Fireworks page from Dreamweaver
Create a Dreamweaver template
Add text in Dreamweaver
Edit a Fireworks pop-up menu