Fireworks 4 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide (Visual Quickstart Guides) - Softcover

Cohen, Sandee

 
9780201731330: Fireworks 4 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide (Visual Quickstart Guides)

Synopsis

One of our best-selling Visual QuickStart Guides now includes the latest features of Fireworks 4, with updated coverage of animation, scripting Fireworks and Dreamweaver, writing JavaScript commands, and exporting graphics to Macromedia Director. A new chapter compares Fireworks with Adobe Photoshop as a Web graphics tool.

With Fireworks 4 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide, you'll learn how to design, create, optimize, and output Web graphics from Fireworks in no time, thanks to the signature Visual QuickStart approach: clear, step-by-step instructions with plenty of helpful screenshots. The book thoroughly explores Fireworks' omnibus graphic tool set, which combines vector drawing, bitmap tools, text editing, special effects, color management, animation, and HTML linking in one interface.

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About the Author

Sandee Cohen, a former advertising creative supervisor, has been teaching and training on the Macintosh for the past seven years. She teaches at the New School for Social Research Computer Instruction Center in New York City. She is also a contributing writer for several desktop publishing magazines. Her artwork has been used for book jacket covers, interior illustrations, maps, and technical illustrations.

From the Back Cover

Fireworks 4 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guideis fully updated and revised to cover the latest features of version 4, including new coverage of animation, scripting Fireworks and Dreamweaver, writing JavaScript commands, and exporting graphics to Macromedia Director. Fireworks' current features include an omnibus graphic tool set which combines different types of tools into a single interface: vector drawing, "natural media" bitmap tools, text editing, special effects, color management, animation, and HTML linking. It also includes "Live Effects," which are drop shadows, embosses and glows that update automatically. A new chapter compares Fireworks with Adobe Photoshop as a Web graphics tool.

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