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Part Number ZFW70M200 Acknowledgments Project Management: Gary White Writing: Dale Crawford, Tonya Estes, Naheeda Ravjani Editing Management: Rosana Francescato Editors: Linda Adler, Mary Kraemer, Noreen Maher Production Management: Patrice O'Neill Multimedia Development: Aaron Begley Photography: Chris Basmajian Production: Adam Barnett, John Francis, Jeff Harmon Special thanks to Jeff Ahlquist, Doug Benson, Rob McCullough, Joe Merritt, Melana Orton First Edition: September 2003 Macromedia, Inc. 600 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94103 CONTENTS CHAPTER 1: Selecting and Transforming Objects ......................... 7 Selecting objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Selecting pixels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Editing selected objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Transforming and distorting selected objects and selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Organizing objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 CHAPTER 2: Working with Bitmaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Working with bitmaps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Creating bitmap objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Drawing, painting, and editing bitmap objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Retouching bitmaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Adjusting bitmap color and tone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Blurring and sharpening bitmaps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Adding noise to an image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 CHAPTER 3: Working with Vector Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Drawing vector objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Editing paths. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 CHAPTER 4: Using Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 79 81 89 90 92 92 93 94 95 Entering text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Editing text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Applying strokes, fills, and effects to text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Attaching text to a path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Transforming text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Converting text to paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Importing text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Checking spelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Using the Text Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 CHAPTER 5: Applying Color, Strokes, and Fills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Using the Colors section of the Tools panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Organizing swatch groups and color models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Using color boxes and color pop-up windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Working with strokes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Working with fills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Applying gradient and pattern fills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Adding texture to strokes and fills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 CHAPTER 6: Using Live Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Applying Live Effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Editing Live Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 CHAPTER 7: Layers, Masking, and Blending . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Working with layers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Masking images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 Blending and transparency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 CHAPTER 8: Using Styles, Symbols, and URLs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 Using styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 Using symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 Working with URLs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 CHAPTER 9: Slices, Rollovers, and Hotspots. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Creating and editing slices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Making slices interactive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 Preparing slices for export . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 Working with hotspots and image maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 CHAPTER 10: Creating Buttons and Pop-up Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 Creating button symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 Creating navigation bars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 Creating pop-up menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 CHAPTER 11: Creating Animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 Building animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 Working with animation symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 Working with frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216 Tweening. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220 Previewing an animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 Exporting your animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 Working with existing animations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223 Using multiple files as one animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224 4 Contents CHAPTER 12: Optimizing and Exporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 226 226 231 247 262 262 About optimizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Using the Export Wizard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Optimizing in the workspace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Exporting from Fireworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sending a Fireworks document as an e-mail attachment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Using the File Management button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHAPTER 13: Automating Repetitive Tasks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 Finding and replacing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 Batch processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 Extending Fireworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275 CHAPTER 14: Preferences and Keyboard Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281 281 284 286 287 287 Setting preferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Changing keyboard shortcut sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Working with configuration files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . About reinstalling Fireworks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Viewing package contents (Macintosh only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289 Contents 5 6 Contents CHAPTER 1 Selecting and Transforming Objects As you work in Macromedia Fireworks MX 2004, you manipulate vector and bitmap objects, text blocks, slices and hotspots, and areas of pixels. Using the selection and transformation tools, you can move, copy, delete, rotate, scale, or skew objects. In documents that have multiple objects, you can organize the objects by stacking, grouping, and aligning them. Select ...