“The Classroom in a Book series is by far the best training material on the market. The companion DVD includes lesson files so readers can work along with the book. It also includes instruction on working with the Styles panel and several new enhancements to the Properties panel, including the new color selection and gradient editing features. This edition, fully revised for CS6, covers CSS extraction using the CSS Properties panel, jQuery Mobile skinning, and sprite creation.
In addition readers will learn how to demo a design for a client in real time, export the design as an interactive PDF, and export vector design elements as CSS3-only markup for use in websites. Readers will learn what they need to know to design and mock up Web pages or interfaces for rich Internet applications or tablet apps. The 14 project-based lessons in this book show readers step-by-step the key techniques for working in Fireworks. The common library has a great collection of new symbols, icons, buttons, menu bars, graphic and animation elements that you can access from the common library panel.Those creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Fireworks choose Adobe Fireworks CS6 Classroom in a Book from the Adobe Creative Team. Well organized Common Library with many new inbuilt objects: Adobe Fireworks CS4 has a new better organized common library. To make this work with Auto Shapes ungroup them. The text must be attached to a closed shape. You can use the Pen and Subselection tool to modify the path to your flow requirement and the text will follow that outline. Select both the text and the shape and go to Text > Attach In Path. You can now wrap text inside a vector object of any shape: A much awaited feature that's been now included in Fireworks CS4 is text wrapping! To try this first create a shape and some text. For this use the Properties panel to change settings for the entire slide show or for individual slides you select. You can add or delete the images, or by adding multiple albums to a single slide show. Slide Show Command upgradedĬreate and modify a Flash Slide-show from inside Adobe Fireworks CS4: Once you create a slide show, use the Slideshow Viewer to add images. To reverse a Gradient, first select the Vector Mask thumbnail, then open the Path Panel (Window > Others > Path) and choose the Reverse Gradients command option.
Select the bitmap or vector objects then go to Commands > Creative > Auto Vector Mask and then select the mask type and click Apply. You can later edit the appearance and other properties of the auto vector masks. For those of you who haven't used the align panel before, instead of spacing objects manually you can do this: select all objects then click align vertical center, set spacing to 10 pixels and click space evenly horizontally.Īuto vector masks can now apply predefined patterns as vector masks to bitmap and vector objects.
Now we are going to look at the last five prominent new features.Ĭontrolled spacing between objects: The Align Panel can now precisely control the space between two or more objects as you can set the spacing between objects numerically in the Align panel.
In the previous two pages ( & ) you learnt about eight new features of Fireworks CS4: the Pages Panel, Styles Panel upgraded, Path Panel and Smart Guides and Tooltips, CSS Export, PDF Export, Guide Measure and Measurement Auto Shape and 9-Slice Scaling tool.
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