Posts Tagged Fireworks

Should You Learn Photoshop or Fireworks? (and more!)

In this week’s question time I talk about whether it’s best to learn Photoshop or Fireworks, what software I use to create these Question Time videos and I offer advice for designers who are just out of school and are looking for design work.

This week’s questions

Hi Chris, I would love to hear your thoughts on the various design programs. I started out using Fireworks (Macromedia) for designing and just can’t get my head around Adobe Photoshop. However it seems that every designer in the world is using PS.

Hi Chris, I was just wondering what software you use to make/edit your ‘question time’ videos?

I’ve just got out of school, do you have any advice for someone wanting to go out there on their own? How did you get started?

Interesting design links

8 Things They Don’t Tell You About Being a Web Designer

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Building Mobile Web Apps the Right Way: Tips and Techniques

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Export CSS and HTML Using Adobe Fireworks CS4

For the last couple of weeks we have been working with Adobe Fireworks to create a layout for a fashion website. We started out by laying out the page, then I demonstrated how to add multiple pages and utilize symbols to create global navigation items. Today, I will show you how to convert our layout into a fully functioning html page that includes CSS. I will then show you how to make some minor tweaks using Dreamweaver.

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Working With the Path Palette in Adobe Fireworks CS4

When most people think of working with paths, it’s likely that they are thinking about Adobe Illustrator. What a lot of people don’t realize however is that Adobe Fireworks CS4 comes with some really nice tools to help you manipulate paths and points. In this brief video tutorial I will demonstrate the capabilities of Adobe Fireworks CS4’s Path Palette.

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Improve Your Workflow Using Symbols and Adobe Fireworks CS4’s Multi-Page Functionality

You may remember a while back when I demonstrated how to design a fashion website using Adobe Fireworks CS4. Today, I will build upon that tutorial and show how to create a secondary page using Fireworks’ multi-page functionality. I will then demonstrate how to improve your workflow by demonstrating how to use symbols to make global changes to this document.

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Quick Tip: Apply a Pattern Overlay to a Gradient in Adobe Fireworks

One of the reasons that I enjoy working in Fireworks so much is the ease in which it allows you to apply basic effects to objects. In this brief video tutorial I will demonstrate how to apply a pattern overlay to a gradient in Adobe Fireworks. This technique is very useful for creating all sorts of objects in Fireworks including backgrounds, headers, banner ads, and just about any other type of design you can think of.

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