Fireworks

COURSE OBJECTIVES

This course is intended for anyone who wants to use Fireworks to create beautiful, editable graphics from scratch as well as touch up and enhance digital photographs. In addition, learn how to use Fireworks to simplify the process of creating compact professional-looking graphics for the Web and also optimize graphics for Web distribution. The course covers several animated or interactive graphic page elements, such as image rollover buttons and navigation bars. Special attention is devoted to ways on exporting sophisticated whole-page Web layouts to Dreamweaver.

WHAT DO YOU ACHIEVE?

Students will be able to:

  • Use Fireworks as a web design & an animation creation tool
  • Create simple graphical buttons, sophisticated rollover effects and pop-up menus
  • Import, integration & editing of vector & bitmap images in all the major graphic formats
  • Create animated rollovers & pop-up menus with Fireworks's intuitive visual tools
  • Create sophisticated web navigation

COURSE DURATION & STRUCTURE

The duration for an individual tutorial is 5 hours
Further details may be verified at the counter

WEEKLY COURSE OUTLINE

  • Introduction to Fireworks as a graphic tool
  • Overview of the interface. This will include windows, tools & menus
  • Feature of Fireworks
  • Docked Menus
  • The Fireworks Toolbar - Pointer Tool, Sub selection, Scale
  • Duplicate Graphics
  • Learn the difference between vector & bitmap graphics
  • Create art using vector paths, strokes, fills & Fireworks Live Effects
  • Bend text around paths
  • Use special effects, such as shadows, bevels, and textures
  • Optimize and export graphics for use on the web
  • Learn how to choose between GIF & JPEG
  • Use Fireworks visual environment to compare the visual effects of different approaches to compression
  • Use indexed transparency to make pixels disappear and create the illusion on non-rectangular graphics
  • Slice complex images into smaller units, optimizing some slices as GIF and others as JPEG
  • Design a whole-page Web layout in Fireworks
  • Create buttons and a navigation bar
  • Create an animated GIF
  • Use disjoint rollovers to create an interactive map
  • Export complex, interactive pages as functional pages for use in Dreamweaver