Tapping the power of Fireworks 4

This full-color step-by-step techniques book is designed to be the ultimate Fireworks reference.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface

Chapter 1: Building blocks -- drawing shapes in fireworks
Rounding Square Corners
Triangulating Your Way
Dividing Ellipses
Penning with Fireworks' Redesigned Pen Tool
Understanding Paths
Creating Simple Paths
Closing a Path
Adding Points to an Existing Path
Removing Points from a Path
Mastering the Control Handles
Creating Compound Shapes
Drafting 3D Ellipses, Cylinders, and Rectangles
Punching New Forms
Stroking Is an Art
Creating Libraries of Reusable Shapes

Chapter 2: Coloring your web
Working with Web-Safe Color
Limiting Colors Can Be a Good Thing
Color Schemes for Your Web Site
Creating Translucent Images for Layering and DHTML Effects
Realizing Realistic Metallic Gradients
Clearing Up Alpha and Index Transparency Issues
Anti-aliasing with Color
Filling Bitmaps with Color
Painting with Light

Chapter 3: Manipulating typefaces in fireworks 47
Polishing Your Text
Creating Metallic Text
Embossing Metallic Texts
Copper
Pewter
Bright Silver
Drawing Gel Texts
Chiseling Text
Distressing Text
Emulating Natural Media
Dripping Text
Glowing Text
Shining Leather Text
Halftoning, Comic Book Style
Experimenting with New Procedures
Pasting for a Two-Tone Effect
Pasting with Images
Weathering Wood
Designing Logos

Chapter 4: Adding action to your pages
Rolling Words and Images
Adding Hotspots, Slices, and Behaviors
Exporting
Compounding Rollovers
Adding the First Hotspots
Adding Slices
Adding Behaviors
The Rollovers
Popping Menus, a New Fireworks Tool
Defining Content for Your Pop-Up Menu
Defining the Appearance of Your Pop-Up Menu
Exporting Your Pop-Up Menu
Kevin's Pop-Up Menu FAQ
Hotspotting a la Haroche
Working with Frames
Creating the Hotspots
Creating the onMouseOver states
Adding the Behaviors
Exporting the Behaviors
Twirling Knobs, Whirling Dials
Zooming In
Adding Hotspots and Slices
Adding Behaviors
Showing and Hiding in Version 3x (+) Browsers
Adding Behaviors
Adding URLs
Tabbing an Interface
Slicing It Right

Chapter 5: Processing and kneading photographic images
Choosing Images the Smart Way
Acquiring Images in Fireworks
Selecting with Marquee Tools
Manipulating Photographic Images
Selecting Bits for Extra Compression
Case Study 1
Case Study 2
Removing Red Eyes from Photographs
Emulating Darkroom Tricks
Fading Photo Edges
Using Masks to Fade Photo Edges
Tips for Working with Masks
Artistic Photo Edges
Masking Magic
Blending Mode Witchery
Using Color Fill to Blend

Chapter 6: A little razzle dazzle
Dazzling Glassworks
Creating a Wine Glass
The Bowl of the Wine Glass
The Stem and Foot of the Wine Glass
The Liquid
Highlighting
Adding Color to the Bowl
Creating the Stem
Arranging the Foot
Adding the Wine
Adding the Highlight
Texturing Metals
Pearlizing a Button
Mother-of-Pearl
Water Drops
Carving Jade
In the Baroque Manner
Leaded Glass
Coloring the Window
Let There Be Light
Lighting Effects
Magnifying Glass
Adding and Distorting the Text
Finishing off
Radio Knob
By Jupiter!

Chapter 7: Animating techniques
Flipping Pages
The Animation
Exporting
Adding the Animated Rollover to Your Page
Tweening to Fade Text In and Out
Setting Up the Banner
Adding the Symbol
Setting the Values
Breaking Down
Setting Up the Animation
Setting Up the Frame Delays
Animating on a Curve
Moving on the Rotation Point
Moving on the Circumference
Multitasking Text to Look Like Ticker Tape
The Shadow Box
Adding the Text
Animating the Text
Setting Up the Frame Delays
Animating Tutorials
Capturing the Screen Images
Distributing the Prepared Screen Shots to Frames
Animating the Cursor
Typing Animation
Assembling the First Frames
Adding the Text
Pushing the Button
Timing It Right
Stomping Foot
Finishing the Images
Creating the Animation
Exporting the Animation

Chapter 8: Keeping company with other software
Disjoint Rollovers
Setting Up
Adding the Behaviors
Show-Hide Layers
Drawing Layers
Attaching the Behaviors
DHTML on a Timeline
Creating the Pieces in Fireworks
Preparing the Canvas
Drawing the Body
Making the Body Look Realistic
Making the Control Button
Drawing the Shiny Ring
Adding Depth to the Body with Custom Hilites and Shadows
Making the Illuminated Buttons
Drawing the Antenna
Adding the Ball
Slicing and Exporting the Image
Assembling the Artwork in Dreamweaver
How the Antenna Works
Using Layers
Animating the Buttons
Raising the Antenna
Adding Behaviors
Lowering the Antenna
Wiring the Buttons
Set the Initial State of the Page
Animated Banners
Plan the Message
Prepare the Background Image in Fireworks
Working in SWiSH
Adding the First Text Effect
Adding the Second Text Effect
Setting the Scale Characters Effect
Exporting the SWF File
Flash Splash
Setting Up
Utilizing Frames, Keyframes, and Text
Symbols and Tweening
Layers
Creating the Illustration
Animating the Illustration
Reaching the Home Stretch
Ignite Wipe Animation
Preparing for the Storyboarding
Preparing to Animate
Sequencing

What's on the cd-rom?

Index

About the authors

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