Fireworks CS5 Tutorials from Fireworks Zone
June 1st, 2010
Now that Adobe Creative Suite 5 is out you should already have your copy of Fireworks. If you’re wondering what new features were released in CS5 you can check out some tutorials over at Fireworks Zone. If you haven’t purchased a copy of Fireworks CS5 yet you don’t know what you’re missing. Get on it. Pronto.
A few tutorials you will find at Fireworks Zone are:
Device Central
Device Central provides designers and coders a comprehensive testing facility that approximates how pages and graphics will look on a variety of cell phones with different screen resolutions, color depths, memory constraints, and other performance characteristics.
It simplifies the mobile authoring workflow and allows developers to preview designs and test content on the desktop before loading it on the mobile devices for final testing.
Compound Shape Tools
Fireworks CS5 has 4 new Compound Shape vector drawing tools in the Properties panel. See Figure 1, towards the right edge of the property inspector panel: Add/Union, Substract/Punch, Intersect and Crop.
The Compound Shape is non-destructive as you can modify the result path by tweaking the individual paths with the sub-select tool. You can move, also scale, rotate and skew the individual paths that constitute the compound shape.
Document Templates
Although Fireworks ships with built-in templates, you can easily create customized templates for your project types and embed symbols and assets so that you always start from the same base to produce consistent work (and save some time.). You can create basic templates for ecommerce sites, mobile/iPhone apps, and even interactive Flash or Catalyst elements.
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