INTRODUCTION
Fireworks simplifies the process of creating and optimizing graphics for the Web.
Traditionally, Web designers used a bitmap tool like Photoshop to create images, a vector-based
drawing program to create text, a hodge-podge of filters, utilities, and shareware to apply effects and
make image maps and animations, DeBabelizer to optimize JPEG and GIF graphics, and then a browser
for preview. Revising a graphic often forced designers to erase and start over.
Fireworks gives you the ability to combine vectors and bitmaps, apply Live Effects, optimize palettes,
and preview image quality. There’s no need to switch to other applications and utilities with Fireworks.
It is the start-to-finish solution for creating and optimizing Web graphics.
Using Fireworks, you can slice apart your Web graphics to mix compression types and file formats for
the fastest downloads possible. You can even incorporate rollovers into sliced graphics, set text blocks
as GIFs, crunch photos as full-color JPEGs, and automatically generate an HTML table to reassemble
your sliced graphics.
It also generates the JavaScript for rollovers, including image preloads for fast action when the mouse
moves over the button.
In this hands-on course you’ll learn how to use Fireworks’ features to create graphics incorporating both
bitmap and vector elements, using an exciting toolbox full of special effects. You’ll build buttons, and add
rollovers, and create a GIF animation. You’ll learn to optimize images, and use the Export Preview to
compare formats and palette choices before making a final decision. And you’ll learn to use Fireworks to
make image maps and slice graphics.
Fireworks comes with an extensive online Help system you can reference when you have a question.
Most of the tool palettes also feature Screen Tips that describe icon functions when you hold the cursor
over them. In addition, a PDF of the Fireworks manual is located at
program/macromedia/fireworks/using-fireworks for the Windows platform and in the Fireworks
application folder, using Fireworks directory for the Macintosh.
You can also check the Macromedia Web site at www.macromedia.com for software updates, news, and
tips to make your work more productive.
You’ll find Fireworks to be a versatile, useful tool which will make your Web design efforts easier and
more fun. We hope you enjoy it.
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FIREWORKS CURRICULUM
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