In this tutorial, you'll learn how to use Fireworks CS3 and Illustrator CS3 together. You'll create some illustrative vector elements to add to the final composition. You'll also mix in photos and light effects. Learn how to use a cool paper background and tips to improve your workflow.

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If you’re designing websites using Adobe applications, you probably fall into one of two camps: the one that’s already using Fireworks for fast prototypes or the one that soon will be. Fireworks has undergone an incredible transformation from a Web design application to an RIA (Rich Internet Application) layout prototyping tool. When Fireworks sits side by side with Photoshop and Illustrator, it’s easy to lose sight of what it can do. If you have one of Adobe’s Web suites, however, you’ll see that big yellow FW icon staring at you, taunting you, daring you to click it and find out its secret power.

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This Adobe® Fireworks® tutorial will show you how to create a silky, flowing ribbon; the type that you could slap onto your graphic elements to make them more festive.

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Text wrapping around shapes through Attach in path feature.
This tutorial was written for Fireworks CS4 and higher.

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Whether it’s signifying merit or signalizing new content, a golden seal graphic often does the trick. Utilizing two of the Adobe® Fireworks®‘ nifty features—Auto Shapes and Text On A Path—you’ll be stamping shiny seals in no time.

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This is a tutorial that shows you how to extract a logo and/or logotype from a raster image, using only Adobe® Fireworks®‘ Live Filters. With this method, you also have the option to re-color the lifted logo in anyway you want: solid, gradient, or textured. All of this, while avoiding the temptations of the quick-and-dirty Wand Tool.

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Gradients and masks are all it takes to create lighting effects for circular shapes in Adobe® Fireworks®. Generate as many layers of shadows and highlights as you need. Let us show you how…

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If you have experience working with Macromedia FreeHand or Adobe Illustrator, or if you have a background in 3D modeling and animation, you'll be excited to hear about the 3D Rotate command, an extension we created using the powerful JavaScript API included with Fireworks CS3, in conjunction with Adobe Flash CS3 Professional. It is not a panel that ships with Fireworks CS3.

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For a Fireworks enthusiast, there’s nothing more fun than spending time playing around with new techniques.
Collages are two-dimensional reliefs of artistically arranged materials such as photos, newspaper, wallpaper, printed text and illustrations, cloth, and string. While you can’t assemble a two-dimensional work on screen, Fireworks comes loaded with the tools you need to create the illusion of two, and even three dimensional objects. We’ll walk you through a few of them in this tutorial.

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This great tutorial will show you how to produce shiny glass letters.

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