Fireworks for Windows & Macintosh (Visual QuickStart Guide) - Softcover

Cohen, Sandee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 020135361X ISBN 13: 9780201353617

Publisher: Peachpit Pr, 1900

Synopsis

A reference to the new program for Web designers, allowing manipulation of text, photos, buttons, banners, animations, and interface elements from one Fireworks file instead of from a myriad of applications. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Review

Fireworks, the new Web-graphics tool from Macromedia, is impressively versatile: you can create illustrations, edit photos, add text, build animations, apply image maps, and more. Ideal for beginners and intermediate users, this Visual QuickStart Guide helps you learn Fireworks quickly and easily. The book teaches you all about the interface and helps you set up new documents, work with color, create and manipulate paths and vector-based objects, apply fills and effects, use brushes, add and edit text, edit pixel-based images, import and export files, create image maps, work with slices (specially defined areas of images), create rollovers, and build animations. An appendix illustrates the default settings for textures, patterns, gradients, brushes, and effects, and another provides keyboard shortcuts. The book is full of clear step-by-step instruction, brief introductions to each task, and helpful screen shots. There are no obscure technical discussions to weigh you down--just explanations of features so you can get right to work. A full-color section illuminates a few issues regarding palettes, file formats, and color. --Kathleen Caster

From the Back Cover

Macromedia calls Fireworks "a new category of Web graphics production tools," and indeed it is something new under the sun: an integrated, all-in-one tool for producing graphics and animations for the World Wide Web. Whereas previously a Web designer might typically have relied on four or five separate applications to create a Web graphic--vector drawing program, bitmap image editor, file-conversion utility, HTML editor, and so on--Fireworks brings all the operations together into a single interface. In addition, Fireworks makes revisions far simpler and more efficient to achieve, with object-oriented effects that update automatically as images are changed and graphics that remain in fully editable form at all times. With abundant graphics and clear explanations, Fireworks for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide introduces novice and experienced Web designers to this new technology, using a practical, step-by-step, task-oriented approach that makes it easy to get started. But don't take our word for it! In a forward to the book, bestselling author Lynda Weinman writes, "This book delivers on its promise to get you up and running quickly, which is essential in the fast-paced world of Web development. I highly recommend this book if you want to use Fireworks to its best advantage."

Edition details

• Publisher: Peachpit Pr
• Publication date: 1900
• ISBN 10: 020135361X
• ISBN 13: 9780201353617
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 253