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Adobe Fireworks Tutorial – Creating A Candy Button

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In this Adobe Fireworks tutorial , you will learn how I created those nice looking icons ( twitter , rss , mail ) icons in the top right area of my header, and the social media icon pack I submitted here

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Creating a fancy text effect in Adobe Fireworks

This is the first youtube video I ever made , so you might encounter some video editing issues ( lol im still a noob using camtasia). The tutorial lets you create a fancy letter or text effect that you can use on your projects , and you can even you use any version of Adobe Fireworks , yes even fireworks 2 lol.

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Feathering in Adobe Fireworks

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Basically , feathering is changing the edge of fills , or the edge of your vector object to feather. By default the edge is set in Anti – Alias , but you can also change it to Hard or Feather. This is a very easy technique, but if done in the right way, could help  soften your images,  and add glows or highlights.

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Creating Grunge Text Using Adobe Fireworks

In the web, we have seen a lot of photoshop tutorials on grunge text / special effects but none in Adobe Fireworks. We do not have brushes in FW, but we can try a different approach on creating a grunge look using vectors. The key thing to note here is , experiment  on different approaches till you are satisfied.

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Pixelate Effect Tutorial

Have you ever wanted to create a pixelize look on your designs but you didn’t know how? Well here is your answer ! In this Adobe Fireworks tutorial you will learn how to install 3rd party plugins in adobe fireworks and use them.

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Most people don’t know that there are a lot of photoshop compatible plugins that can be used in adobe fireworks  and that  which I highly recommend using Richard Rosenman’s plugins.  Read More »

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Fancy Rss Button Tutorial

In this Adobe Fireworks tutorial , you will learn how to create a fancy rss button for your blog / websites.

Part 1 – Creating the fancy square.

1.) Start by creating a new fireworks document , 250 x 250 dimensions or more , choose a darker background color or black.
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Simple Orbs Tutorial

The Simple Orbs Tutorial is a very simple technique , yet it could add some dramatic touches to your design. It is just one layer object but you can replicate it over and over, and change the sizes.

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Creating A Night Scene in Adobe Fireworks 8

This was my first Adobe Fireworks tutorial for the Adobe Design Center two years ago. It teaches you to create starts, clouds and a shiny moon =) , too bad the Alien Skin Filters have been discountinued  on fireworks cs3 and cs4 , but I’ll do my best to make an updated version of this tutorial someday without using the Alien Skin filters.

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