Adobe Fireworks User Resources

Adobe Fireworks is an ideal complement to Adobe Dreamweaver or other HTML editors, and even more so with the new Fireworks CS6. Learn how Fireworks CS6 makes it easier to create and update designs and themes for web pages, tablet apps, mobile devices, and more.

Learn how to use bitmap and vector masks in Fireworks in this tutorial where you create a fictitious web banner ad.

This tutorial will show you how to create different types of embossed text using Live Filters in Adobe Fireworks.

Here's a rotating text effect that you can use on your Web site or on banners.

Create special effects for buttons in Fireworks. Download the styles to create a jeweled button and learn how to create a brushed metal button with engraved text.

Create a variety of text effects including shiny gold, 3D, distressed, and gel.

Three steps to creating animated GIFs in Fireworks. Version unspecified.

From Macromedia Support, the top articles and technotes for learning the basics of Fireworks.

Tips for improving photos to bring out color and detail using Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro and Fireworks.

Good collection of tips for Fireworks 2.0 and 3.0 from Smart Webby Design.

Create and lay out thumbnails and hyperlinks for a photo album Web page using the Create Web Photo Album command. You must have both Fireworks 3 and Dreamweaver 3 installed on your computer for this command.

Create Web graphics with a simultaneous rollover and image swap. Version unspecified.

Use batch processing scripts to generate thumbnails for a single image or an entire folder of images. Fireworks 2.

Learn how to create rollover button that causes another element on the page to change.

Learn how to use Levels to adjust the midtones of an image in Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro and Fireworks.

Learn how to export sliced tables that contain animated GIFs in some of the cells.

Use feathering to give photos a soft edge.

Freebies from the companion Web site to the book, Fireworks 2 Bible by Joseph Lowery. Not much there now, but more is promised soon.

A chart of all keyboard shortcuts in Fireworks 2 for Macintosh and Windows.

Wendy Peck explores the variety of fun effects available in Fireworks including fill effects, live effects, and styles.

Twelve pages of tips to help the Photoshop user get started using Fireworks.

A complete overview of layers in Fireworks covering the basics, working with layers, using layer effects, and exporting layers as individual files.

An email discussion list for Fireworks users.

Macromedia's support and development center for tips, tutorials, and troubleshooting Fireworks.

Fireworks tutorials, extensions, and other resources.

Learn the basics of working with gradient fills in Fireworks.

Use tweening to create a growing line animation in any version of Fireworks.

Create a lens flare effect in Fireworks without expensive plug-in filters.

Get trial versions, patches, updates, templates, and more from Macromedia.

Clip photos into shapes then get creative with Fireworks' effects.

Create a grid sphere inside another grid sphere.

31 quick tips from Macromedia technical support to get you up to speed with Fireworks 2.

Learn how to design overlapping simple rollovers and swap-image rollovers within a single slice object using multiple hotspots. Fireworks 3.

Techniques for rough-edged text effects in Fireworks.

Place a picture into a circular frame.

Learn how to save custom fills and use transparency with gradients in Fireworks.

Tips for sharpening with the Unsharp Mask filter in Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, and Fireworks.

Learn how to create rounded corners two different ways, plus several approaches to drawing rectangles. More Shapes shows you how to create a cylindrical shape and a 3D cube.

Cut up a circle into equal wedges and make each slice a different color.

"25 dynamic, textured vector brush styles" by David Nagel.

A list of all Fireworks TechNotes from Macromedia Support.

Create an animation of text fading in and out.

A good collection of tips on Fireworks 4.0 from Smart Webby Design.

Macromedia Technotes for troubleshooting problems and errors in Fireworks.

Learn how you can simulate Web safe colors with the built-in Web dither fill feature of Fireworks 2.

How to put together a Web Photo Album with the free Web Photo Album 2 extension for Dreamweaver 4 and Fireworks 4.

Give your text a windblown look using textures.