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Acknowledgments Project Management: Charles Nadeau, Debi Robson Writing: Rosanne Conroy Editing: Melba Lancaster, Shawn Jackson, Lisa Stanziano Production Management: Patrice O'Neill Media Design and Production: Adam Barnett, Aaron Begley, John Francis, Paul Rangel, Arena Reed, Mario Reynoso Localization Project Management: Luciano Arruda Special thanks to Matt Hoffberg, Maureen Keating, David Spells, Marisa Bozza, Souvik Bose, Alan Musselman, Sheila McGinn, Andrew Wilson, Rosana Francescato, Masayo Noda, Kashka Pregowska-Czerw, Kristin Conradi, Bonnie Loo, and the entire Fireworks engineering and QA teams. First Edition: August 2005 Macromedia, Inc. 601 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94103 Contents Chapter 1: Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 System requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Installing Fireworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 What's new in Fireworks 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Guide to instructional media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Chapter 2: Fireworks Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 About working in Fireworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 About vector and bitmap graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Creating a new document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Opening and importing files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Saving Fireworks files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 The Fireworks work environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Chapter 3: Selecting and Transforming Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Selecting objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Selecting pixels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Editing selected objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Transforming and distorting selected objects and selections . . . . . . 69 Organizing objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .74 Chapter 4: Working with Bitmaps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .79 Working with bitmaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Creating bitmap objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Accessing common photo editing tools all in one place . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Drawing, painting, and editing bitmap objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Retouching bitmaps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Adjusting bitmap color and tone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Blurring and sharpening bitmaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104 Adding noise to an image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109 3 Chapter 5: Working with Vector Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Drawing vector objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .112 Editing paths. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 Chapter 6: Using Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Entering text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 Editing text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Applying strokes, fills, and filters to text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Attaching text to a path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 Transforming text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 Converting text to paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .161 Importing text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .161 Checking spelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Using the Text Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 Chapter 7: Applying Color, Strokes, and Fills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Using the Colors section of the Tools panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 Organizing swatch groups and color models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 Using color boxes and color pop-up windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 Working with strokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 Working with fills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182 Applying gradient and pattern fills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 Adding texture to strokes and fills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 Chapter 8: Using Live Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 Applying Live Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 Editing Live Filters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 Chapter 9: Layers, Masking, and Blending . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 Working with layers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204 Masking images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 Blending and transparency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 Chapter 10: Using Styles, Symbols, and URLs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235 Using styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .236 Using symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240 Working with URLs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .246 4 Contents Chapter 11: Slices, Rollovers, and Hotspots. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251 Creating and editing slices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252 Making slices interactive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260 Preparing slices for export . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269 Working with hotspots and image maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275 Chapter 12: Creating Buttons and Pop-up Menus . . . . . . . . . . . 281 Creating button symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282 Creating navigation bars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293 Creating pop-up menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293 Chapter 13: Creating Animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307 Building animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308 Working with animation symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308 Working with frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .313 Tweening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .318 Previewing an animation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .319 Exporting your animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320 Working with existing animations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322 Using multiple files as one animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323 Chapter 14: Optimizing and Exporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325 About optimizing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326 Using the Export Wizard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326 Optimizing in the workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .331 Exporting from Fireworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352 Sending a Fireworks document as an e-mail attachment . . . . . . . . . 370 Using the File Management button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371 Chapter 15: Using Fireworks with Other Applications . . . . . . . 373 Working with Macromedia Dreamweaver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374 Working with Macromedia Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392 Working with Macromedia FreeHand MX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399 Working with Macromedia Director MX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405 Working with Macromedia HomeSite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .410 Working with Adobe Photoshop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .413 About working with Adobe GoLive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .419 About working with HTML editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420 About extending Fireworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420 Contents 5 Chapter 16: Automating Repetitive Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421 Finding and replacing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .422 Batch processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .426 Extending Fireworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437 Flash SWF movies used as Fireworks panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443 Chapter 17: Preferences and Keyboard Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . 445 Setting preferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445 Changing keyboard shortcut sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...