Publisher: Adobe

Version: CS5
Length: 2 day s
Course-ID: SX698LAM

Course Overview

You would like to have better control over editing vector and bitmap graphics and also make web graphics appear the way you had intended. In this course, you'll work with some of the tools and features of Adobe Fireworks CS5 to create and edit vector and bitmap graphics, apply interesting effects, add graphical text, optimize graphics, and export it as a HTML file.

Course Objective

You will use Adobe Fireworks CS5 to create vector graphics, edit bitmap graphics, optimize images, create and assign rollover effects, and create multiple pages for the web.

Target student

This course is intended for students who want to learn the basic techniques used to create grpahics for web pages. Students must be proficient in working with the Windows operating system.

Prerequisites

Students should also have basic Windows application skills, such as copying and pasting objects, formatting text, saving files etc.


Working in Fireworks
  • Vector and bitmap graphics
  • Creating a new Fireworks document
  • Opening and importing files
  • Working with HTML files in Fireworks
  • Saving and exporting Fireworks files
The Fireworks Workspace
  • Navigate and view documents
  • Change the canvas
  • Preview in browser
  • Undo and repeat multiple actions
Selecting and modifying objects
  • Selecting objects
  • Modifying a selection
  • Selecting pixels
  • Editing objects
  • 9-slice scaling
Bitmaps
  • Creating and editing bitmaps
  • Retouching and adjusting bitmaps
  • Blurring and sharpening bitmaps
  • Noise
Vector objects
  • Basic shapes
  • Auto Shapes
  • Free-form shapes
  • Compound shapes
  • Editing techniques
Text
  • Creating and selecting text
  • Formatting and editing text
Colour
  • Applying colours
  • Applying strokes and fills
  • Saving swatches
  • The Kuler panel
Filters and styles
  • Applying Live Filters
  • Editing and customising Live Filters
  • Styles
  • Symbols
  • URLs
Layers, masking, and blending
  • Creating and managing Layers
  • Masking
  • Layer blends
  • Transparency
  • Slices, rollovers, and hotspots
  • Creating, editing and exporting slices
  • Hotspots and image maps
Buttons and pop-up menus
  • Navigation fundamentals
  • Creating and editing button symbols
  • Pop-up menus
Animation
  • Creating and editing animation symbols
  • Manipulating states
  • Onion skinning
  • Tweening
  • Optimising animation
  • Twist and fade animations
Optimising and exporting
  • The Export Wizard
  • The Image Preview
  • Optimising in the workspace
  • Optimising different file formats
  • Export from the workspace