Happy Newyear 2011 to everyone ! Thank you for supporting my blog and I hope you have learned a lot from my posts last year , expect 2011 to be bigger and better.
Let’s start of January by featuring a fireworks 8 designer , Lukas Koziorowski or also known as Monarxy. Lukas’ specialty in fireworks is in photomanipulation , using stock photos then adding vectors and effects to create wonderful artworks.
Vision Union is a Chinese website that focuses on China’s design industry , it also has tutorials in Adobe Fireworks that you might want to check out.
Ultraweaver
Joey Durham’s uber cool Adobe Fireworks site is back , after a few years of slumber. Ultraweaver is a site focused on Adobe Fireworks , Dreamweaver , Mysql, Php , Css and Html . Check his site regularly for new updates.
I’ll give you guys some tips on how to save your works as psd files, for better integration with Photoshop.
This is an open discussion where you can discuss about fireworks and photoshop for web use.
In the previous versions of Adobe Fireworks, we were able to use a limited edition of the Eyecandy Plugin from the Alien Skin Software site . It was only limited to 3 filters , but they were pretty good ones. From the same company that created the Eyecandy plugin , let’s take a look at another plugin they made called Xenofex 2.
It has 14 amazing effects to choose from and best of all it’s totally compatible with fireworks cs4. You can enable / disable the filter in the filters panel, incase you made a mistake and can apply multiple xenofex filters on an object. The plugin is not free though ( 129 usd ) , previous owners of Xenofex can avail a discount upgrade, but if you want to just try it, you can download a 30 day free trial.
We have already seen adobe fireworks design tutorials in websites today , but seldom are videos , in which gives us a better advantage than the step by step tutorials we normally see in websites. Here’s a compilation of videos in youtube I have recently seen and is something worth checking out.
I have been planning on posting my own youtube videos but I rarely have the time do so , or i dont know how to. lol. My favorite among the bunch would probably be the elegant swirl effect , I like the neat approach on how the swirl path became an object with a solid fill.
This article shows the new UI Fireworks CS4 and how to create custom workspaces by moving and manipulating document windows, panels and docks.
Video tutorials illustrate all the actions which are difficult to describe only by words. Learn to customize your workspace to meet your needs.
I found out Francesco Mugnai’s blog by accident from checking my google analytics info, when i stumbled into his blog post , i saw some really cool tutorials done in adobe fireworks, You can view his blog here.
And also dont forget to check the grass text tutorial listed there , I saw a photoshop version in psdtuts last year but I always wondered how it would be done in adobe fireworks, well here’s your answer, to view the tutorial directly , click here.
Here’s an interesting read for all you fireworks enthusiasts out there , one of the best list of adobe fireworks extensions.
We all know how powerful and how great Adobe Photoshop is, we know that all the best graphic designers use it, we also know that Photoshop when mastered lets you create amazing art.
Sadly, we also know it is very, very expensive. Its also very difficult for the novice to master and it takes a hell of a lot of your PC/MACs precious memory and storage. What is the answer? read more from the source
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