Résumé
Inside Fireworks MX is an insider's look at the bet practices for using and integrating Fireworks MX effectively and efficiently. Get advice from an expert Fireworks user, Abigail Rudner who is a 17year graphics veteran and has been using Fireworks since its inception. Fireworks is becoming much more important to web professionals because it is now being packaged along with Dreamweaver and Dreamweaver UltraDev, which makes it much easier to use with the web. Inside Fireworks MX has real-world examples supplied by step-by-step tutorials to build useful sites.
ContentsI. GETTING UP TO SPEED.
1. What's New and Different in Fireworks
MX.
What Is Fireworks? What's New in Fireworks MX?
2. Interface, Tools, and Workspace Overview.
Getting Started with the Welcome Panel. The New Property
Inspector. Panels and Panel Groups. More Panels, More
Control. Customizing Panels. More Fireworks MX Interface
Goodies.
3. Setting Up a New Document and Navigating the
Workspace.
Creating New Documents. Saving Files. Changing the Canvas
Color and Size. Changing a Document's Image Size. Working
with Ruler Guides. Working with Document Grids.
Magnification: Changing the View of Documents. Working with
Layers. Working With the History Panel.
II. THE MEAT OF THE MATTER.
4. Working with Vectors.
Working with Vectors. Introducing the Basic Shape Drawing
Tools. Working with Paths. The Pen Tool. Aligning and
Stacking Objects.
5. Working with Color Fills and Strokes.
Working with Color. Web-Safe (Browser-Safe) Colors.
Sampling Color. Working with the Color Table. Textures. A
Look at Pattern Fills. Blending Modes. Applying and Editing
Strokes.
6. Working with Text.
Working with the Text Tool. Missing Fonts. Creating Text.
MakingChanges After the Fact. Wrapping Text Along Paths.
Exercise: Adding Text to the Ciber Interface Navigation
Bar. Exercise: Designing with Text as Outlines. Editing
Text in Masks.
7. The Wonderful World of Live Effects.
Fireworks MX Effects. Bevel Effects. Shadow Effects. Glow
Effects. Blur and Sharpen Effects. Other Effects/.
Adjusting Color Effects. difying Effects.
8. Working with Bitmaps.
Importing Bitmaps. Starting to Paint with Fireworks.
Selecting: A Complete Overview. Modifying Selections.
Creating and Working with a Floating Pixel Selection.
Inverting a Pixel Selection. Basic Image Composition.
Modifying Selections Edges. Creating a Frame Selection
Around an Existing Selection. Editing Your Selected
Objects. Transforming and Manipulating Selected Objects and
Selections. The Modify Menu. Painting (Retouching Bitmaps).
Filters. The Find Edges Effect. Fun with Bitmaps.
9. Masking.
What Are Masks? Vector Masks. Bitmap Masks. Bitmap Masks
from Scratch.
III. MAKING IT MOVE AND GETTING IT OUT THERE.
10. Image Maps.
Creating Image Maps. Modifying Image Maps. Exporting Image
Maps. Understanding the Code Behind the Image Map. Building
an Image Map.
11. Working with Behaviors.
What Is a Behavior? Links. Understanding Triggers. Web
Layer Overview. Designing Entire Pages in Fireworks.
Creating HTML Layouts Using Fireworks Slicing. Hotspots and
Slices. Naming Slices. Actions. Using Behaviors in Your
Fireworks Document. Using the Behaviors Panel.
Understanding Fireworks Buttons. Creating Navigation Bars.
Adding Pop-Up Menus to Your Designs.
12. Animation.
GIF Animation Pros and Cons. Building an Animated GIF.
Working with Frames. Working with Onion Skinning. Graphic
Symbols and Tweening Instances. Modifying Symbols.
Modifying Animation Settings. Animation Symbols.
Optimization Considerations. Looping.
13. Optimization.
The Optimization Process. Optimization Methods. Optimizing
and Exporting to GIF. Optimizing and Exporting to JPEG.
Slicing. Setting Selective JPEG Compression.
Transparency.
14. Exporting.
The Export Preview and Export Dialog Windows. Shortcuts to
Exporting. Exporting Entire Documents as a Single Image.
Exporting Documents as Animated GIFs. Exporting Frames and
Layers. Exporting Symbols. Exporting and Importing Styles.
Exporting to Generate Code. Exporting Files for Work in
Another Application. Working with Flash. Working with
Macromedia Director. Exporting to FreeHand and Illustrator.
Exporting to Adobe Photoshop.
15. Automation.
Find and Replace. Find and Replace with Multiple Files.
The Project Log. Batch Processing.
16. Integrating Fireworks and Dreamweaver.
Web Authoring with Dreamweaver and Fireworks. Exporting
from Fireworks into Your Site in Dreamweaver. Starting
Dreamweaver. Inserting Fireworks HTML. Updating Fireworks
HTML. Inserting More Fireworks HTML Files. Editing an
Object in Fireworks for Dreamweaver. Optimizing Graphics
from Within Dreamweaver. Changing an Individual Graphic
Using the Round-Trip Method. Exporting a Fireworks File to
a Dreamweaver Library.
IV. APPENDIX.
Appendix A: What's on the CD-ROM.
Loading the CD Files. Exercise Files. Read This Before
Opening the Software.
Index
L'auteur - Abigail Rudner
Abigail Rudner is a highly regarded member of the Fireworks Advisory Board and an author of Macromedia tutorials on Fireworks. Abigail' is an experienced Designer working with such clients as Cambells, Tower Records, Apple Computers, Microsoft Corp, Autodesk, BITSource, Kinetix, Absolut Vodka, Wall Street Journal, Wells Fargo, Levi's, Bell Atlantic, Hewlett Packard, Lucent Technologies, and Deloitte Touche
Caractéristiques techniques
| PAPIER | |
| Éditeur(s) | New Riders |
| Auteur(s) | Abigail Rudner |
| Parution | 06/09/2002 |
| Nb. de pages | 560 |
| Format | 18,7 x 23,2 |
| Couverture | Broché |
| Poids | 975g |
| Intérieur | Noir et Blanc |
| EAN13 | 9780735711532 |
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