Fireworks For Beginners: A Complete Getting-Started Toolbox
Despite sometimes feeling like the un-loved, adopted child to the Adobe Creative Suite family, Fireworks remains for a lot of professional web and user interface designers to be the most useful, productive tool in their arsenal, however due to the vast popularity of a certain other graphics application in the creative suite, it doesn’t gain anywhere near the recognition it deserves for what it does best.
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Learning to use Fireworks is one of those things that has been on my list for maybe 2 years now. There are still a lot of things I prefer about Photoshop, but it is basically indisputable that you can mock-up and complete a web design much much faster with Fw. Plus it has some other really sweet web-specific features that PS doesn’t have.
Anyhow, this is a great post, I will be reading it carefully
Don’t forget to mention the plugins QuickFire and Orange Commands. These to plugins make working with Fireworks even more of a dream.
After trying both ps and fireworks trials. I chosen fireworks mostly because it feels more nature to me for design mockups. The only thing i miss is resources like this, there seems to be very few fireworks resources and tutorials. Good article well written. thanks
This is great thank you. I can’t believe I’ve never noticed the Share Layers feature… It’s awesome!
Love seeing articles/tutorials about Fireworks! Keep it up guys!
Availaible resources http://fireworkslab.com/ and http://www.webportio.com is the best!
I’ve been using Fireworks for more than 10 years, and I can say it’s the perfect tool for webdesign.
It’s worth learning to use it. Simple and clever.
An aciant fan of Fireworks
thank
I use Fireworks exclusively. I use it for t-shirt designs, web designs and posters. I love it.
Hey,
Mason I must applaud you for sounding the alarm on this wonderful program. I like others have discovered this program and saw that it isn’t bad at all. I’m a new believer and making strides. Take a look at this battery I did: http://pixelignite.com/blog/view/battery_power
With each icon on a different layer, the source file!!!!
THIS IS AWESOME!!!!! HELPED ME SO SO MUCH!
THANKS FOR POSTING!!! :D
Great article. Love it!
It would be a nice point to add that you can use the properties inspector to resize a rounded rectangle without distorting the rounded-ness. This is a huge time saver.
Also, the 9 Slice section is a little confusing to me. This tool is not limited to bitmap objects. Anything can be 9 Slice sized.
Thank you for this amazing tutorial! This really sums up all of the reasons why you should work with Fireworks instead of Photoshop (or any other programme.) The effort & time you put into learning Fireworks will be the best ROI you ever had. At the company I work for we recently switched to using FW and now we have more (&more;) time for the fun stuff like coming up with great designs. And spend less (&less;) time to the boring stuff (repeting work, changing colors sitewide).
Functions I really love: Replace Color + Symbols + Snap to pixel! & The fact that you only save ONE document for all your pages & states!
I wish I had done this earlier..