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Fireworks 3 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide

Name: Fireworks 3 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide
Author: Sandee Cohen
ISBN: 9780201704525

by Sandee Cohen

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Overview

Fireworks for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide is now updated and revised to cover the latest features of version 3. Fireworks current features include an omnibus graphic tool set which combines different types of tools into a single interface: vector drawing, "natural media" bitmap tools, text editing, special effects, color management, animation, and HTML linking. It also includes "Live Effects," which are drop shadows, embosses and glows that update automatically.

Synopsis

Our best selling Visual QuickStart Guide is now updated and revised to cover the latest features of version 3. Fireworks current features include an omnibus graphic tool set which combines different types of tools into a single interface: vector drawing, "natural media" bitmap tools, text editing, special effects, color management, animation, and HTML linking. It also includes "Live Effects," which are drop shadows, embosses and glows that update automatically.

About the Author, Sandee Cohen

Sandee Cohen, a former advertising creative supervisor, has been teaching and training on the Macintosh for the past seven years. She teaches at the New School for Social Research Computer Instruction Center in New York City.She is also a contributing writer for several desktop publishing magazines. Her artwork has been used for book jacket covers, interior illustrations, maps, and technical illustrations.

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The Barnes & Noble Review
Want fast, simple answers and step-by-step techniques for creating great web images with Macromedia Fireworks 3? You'll find them in Fireworks For Windows & Macintosh: Visual Quickstart Guide. No fluff here, nothing fancy, not a lot of theory: just follow the steps, look at the screen shots, do it — and get the results you're looking for.

Sandee Cohen covers the length and breadth of the program: document setup, colors, path tools, selecting paths, working with objects, fills, strokes, effects, text, and more. There's a chapter on Fireworks' handy automation features, such as scripting and batching; coverage of importing and working with bitmapped artwork; optimizing your images; creating GIF animations; adding hotspots, links, and behaviors; and exporting the whole shebang for use in your web pages.

Occasionally Cohen allows herself to get a tad too cute (maybe you don't care her cat is named "Pixel"). But those lapses are rare. To paraphrase the old Ivory soap slogan, this book is 99 and 44/100 percent pure practical answers.

—bncom editor