Tom Green is really enjoying the new CS4 version of Fireworks. In this tutorial, he goes over some of the features that help with fast prototyping, like the fit canvas button and the optimizing panel. If you want to follow along, the image used in this tutorial is available for download.
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Tom is a professor of Interactive Multimedia through the Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning’s School of Media Studies. Like all faculty in the program, Tom believes his students deserve to be taught by instructors who are regarded as experts in their field and whose knowledge of their subject is current with industry best practice.
I know absolutely nothing about Fireworks. Your tutorial gave me some insight as to what it is used for. Thanks for your time!
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This is just the ticket for this newbie
Thanks for the tut, very nicely done. I love the action figure by the way, what is it?
Quick question- what’s the advantage to using the free transform vs. resizing the image?
Thanks again,
J
The Action Figure was on a table in front of a shop in the 798 Art District in Beijing:-)
As for your question I prefer to do stuff by the numbers and Free Transform really doesn’t allow that. If you simply want to “eyeball” it, which I also do, the Free Transform tool is the choice.
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[...] 26. Fireworks 101 [...]
Not very helpful; Tom goes way too fast.
[...] Introductory Tutorial on Fireworks This Fireworks tutorial covers important topics that will help beginners perform fast prototyping [...]
[...] Introductory Tutorial on Fireworks This Fireworks tutorial covers important topics that will help beginners perform fast prototyping [...]
Sorry to say that, but for long term user as me this “tutorial” its disaster.
You didn’t show anything that is new in Fireworks CS4.
1. Zoom thing you showed – nothing new – it is since … dinosaurs,
2. The way you’ve changed the size of image … waste of time – in this case you need to go to: Modify => Canvas => Image Size and bang.
3. That thing you can compare different exports … its even older then those dinosaurs.
[...] How to fast prototyping In this tutorial, the artist goes over some of the features that help with fast prototyping, like the fit canvas button and the optimizing panel. [...]
[...] How to fast prototyping In this tutorial, the artist goes over some of the features that help with fast prototyping, like the fit canvas button and the optimizing panel. [...]
[...] How to fast prototyping In this tutorial, the artist goes over some of the features that help with fast prototyping, like the fit canvas button and the optimizing panel. [...]
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