Fireworks 2 for Windows & Macintosh (Visual QuickStart Guide) - Softcover

Cohen, Sandee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0201354586 ISBN 13: 9780201354584

Publisher: Peachpit Pr, 1999

Synopsis

Macromedia Fireworks 2 is an all-inclusive tool for producing Web graphics and animations. Fireworks offers users the ability to create a graphic and add text, optimize the color palette for the Web, animate the graphic, create links and image maps, and finally preview the completed graphic. Now shipping with Director 7, Fireworks 2 promises to take the Web graphics world by storm with features like a powerful graphics tool set, HTML linking and Live Effects, which update automatically.

Fireworks 2 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide introduces novice and experienced Web designers to this powerful technology, using a practical, step-by-step approach that makes it easy to get started. Clear explanations and plenty of screenshots guide the reader to Web graphics profiency, and cross-platform coverage makes this an essential reference for all Web graphics producers.
Fireworks ships with Macromedia Director 7, now reaching a whole new audience
Revised edition covers all new Fireworks features.
Powerful, omnibus creative tool designed to address the entire Web-graphic production process
Practical, step-by-step tasks get users up and running quickly with this comprehensive program

About this title

Review:

With quick lessons in how to accomplish creative wonders, Fireworks 2 for Windows and Macintosh offers more than the usual product propaganda. Graphic designers and Web content creators will get quick lessons in how to accomplish creative wonders with this book's "Learn by the Numbers" approach for Fireworks. Every page is packed with annotated screen shots and includes color plates to illustrate special color, blend, and compression examples.

The book uses a solution-based approach, with each chapter comprising a series of how-to examples such as "Create a curved path segment" and "Change the object transparency." Readers will get explanations of key topics such as color palettes and compression algorithm basics. The book addresses both Macintosh and Windows versions of Fireworks with careful attention to the subtle differences between the two flavors.

All of the key Fireworks operations are covered in this book, from basic vector graphic design to exporting HTML files that include event-driven effects. Appendices show various styles and list useful keyboard shortcuts. This guide provides a quick taste of Fireworks and is a handy lookup tool for frequent users. --Stephen W. Plain

Topics covered: Macintosh and Windows color sets, vector graphic design, object manipulation, text formatting, importing and exporting, slices, animations, and behaviors.

From the Back Cover:

an all-in-one tool for producing graphics and animations. Version 2, which ships with Director 7, introduces a new interface, exceptional automation tools, and enhanced versions of the program's most popular features. If you want to get up to speed quickly, there's no better place to start than Fireworks 2 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide.

Novices and experienced designers alike will appreciate the book's practical, step-by-step instructions and easy-to-navigate format. Clear explanations and hundreds of screenshots help you quickly master topics such as optimizing an image's colors for the Web, animating graphics, and creating links and image maps. This guide's cross-platform approach makes it an essential reference for everyone who creates graphics for the Web.

About this edition

• Publisher: Peachpit Pr
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0201354586
• ISBN 13: 9780201354584
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280