With Fireworks you can easly design animated gifs, rollovers, swap images and other designs. Have a look on some of the tips we've shown below and please don't miss our step-by-step tutorials on Fireworks..
- Rollover Images
You can create rollovers
very easily in fireworks
Here's
how its done.
- Swap Images
You can easily create Swap images in Fireworks. It adds an interactivity with users when they rollover a link or image. This can make a site more interesting.
Click
here to
find out how to create swap images in Fireworks.
- Paste Inside
- Create the shape using the shape tools from toolbar (e.g. circle, rectangle etc.)
- Place the image within the shape.
- Select the image and cut it (Cntrl +X)
- Then select the shape and click on Edit>Paste
Inside (Cntrl+Shift+V)
- The image will be placed within that shape.
- Rounded Edges/Curves
Double click on the square tool and enter a value. 0 for no curve and 100 for a a
circle.
Square Tool:
- Feather
You can apply the 'Feather' to an image, then you will get a soft edges and a clean finish to images.
- Photo Optics
PhotoOptics is another feature.. You can adjust the brightness,
color, contrast and more, by using this.. Select
the image, go to XTras > PhotoOptics and play around with the options.
- Animated Gifs
Creating animated gifs is easy and fun.
- Transparency
By reducing the opacity of an image you can blend many images together to design great looking collages.
- Effects
Use the Fireworks Effects palette to make your graphics look professional. You can try with the drop shadow, inner bevel, outer bevel and glow.
