3D text can be made simply in Fireworks and there’s so many different ways of creating it, no two text graphics will ever look the same! It’s great for making text on your website stand out and it can even be used in your logos and avatars.


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Many times, when designing a website/poster/leaflet, you will have to cut out a certain part of an image and put it on a new background. This can be accomplished numerous ways using programs such as Fireworks and Photoshop but it can often be time consuming and the end result is not always that clean looking.


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In this tutorial we will learn how to remove a foreground object from a picture and keep the background with amendments to make it appear as though the object was never there to begin with.


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Our tutorial today is going to cover the some of the Adobe Fireworks’ useful tools and commands for making animation even easier and more impressive looking! We’re going to use symbols and tweening, a method of animation that became popular in Adobe Flash. We’ll also take a look at onion skinning and distributing to frames, all techniques that are useful for animation in Fireworks.


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Quite often, when searching for a relevant image to go on a new website we are designing, we’ll find one that’s almost right, but not quite! We might have a certain picture in mind but when we find it, the object in the picture is perfect but the colours are completely the opposite to what we wanted. Putting it into the design makes the image stick out like a sore thumb and the most important part - the content of the page - fades into the background.


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There’s nothing more eye catching on a website than an animated picture. Done right, it can make your webpage spring to life, often being the first thing that a user will look at. It can be a great way of saying “look here” should a certain section of your webpage need it. But how do you make animated graphics?


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One of the most useful tools in many desktop graphic applications is the pen tool. The pen tool allows you to draw straight or smooth vector lines, plotting out points on the canvas that are joined by paths. Take a square as a simple example: each corner is a vector point with paths inbetween those points that repesent the straight edges of the square.


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Peeling stickers and page curls are a very popular Web 2.0 style that make your images look like their coming off of the screen!


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