RC goes over the merging of graphic and paths, grouping of multiple layers, locking layers, and masking in Fireworks CS4.
[If you would like to follow along with RC, the project files for these lessons are available for download. Click here (25 MB)]
Author: RC Concepcion
Rafael Concepcion (RC) is an education and curriculum developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals, and the co-host of Layers TV - The How To Podcast For Everything Adobe. An Adobe Certified Instructor in Photoshop, Illustrator, and Lightroom, RC has over 10 years in the I.T. and ecommerce industries and spends his days developing content for all applications in the Adobe Creative Suite. RC has held training seminars in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America, and recently combined his photographic and web experience to teach with famed wildlife photographer Moose Peterson at the "You Can Do It Too" workshops in Mammoth, CA and at the Voices That Matter Web Conference in San Francisco, CA. RC also writes columns for Layers and Photoshop User magazines.
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The tutorial jumps and misses the part where you set the mask up.
perhaps an edit point?
great article…looking forward to more FW CS4 tuts
Hey Chess:
The mask doesnt happen until 2:13 into the video..
hope that helps..
rc
Man these are great but I think it would be even better if you put like 3 of them together into 1 or at very least put a link to the next one under the one thats finishing
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how do you group the bride image. I couldnt seem to pick that part up on how you did that.
Why did the masked image change from colored to black and white?
Can you mask an image (to make it fit into your shape/path) without changing it’s color?
I think that what he actually did was to use the image to mask the white shape… If you wanted it the other way, you need to have the white shape on top. Then the color would be preserved.
[...] Part 5Part 5 goes over the merging of graphic and paths, grouping of multiple layers, locking layers, and masking in Fireworks CS4. [...]
[...] Part 5Part 5 goes over the merging of graphic and paths, grouping of multiple layers, locking layers, and masking in Fireworks CS4. [...]
[...] Part 5Part 5 goes over the merging of graphic and paths, grouping of multiple layers, locking layers, and masking in Fireworks CS4. [...]
[...] Part 5 Part 5 goes over the merging of graphic and paths, grouping of multiple layers, locking layers, and masking in Fireworks CS4. [...]
Great series. But I agree, the masking segment is confusing.
Nice series of tutorials, but this one skips at 1:53, and the whole section on setting up the mask is missing, alas.