Fireworks Basics
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Hello everyone! I hope everyone’s doing fine today. I will be starting my first tutorial series on graphics. I use Adobe Fireworks – very easy and intuitive in my opinion. I will be touching on the basics of the tools available for us. In the succeeding posts, we are going to know them more intimately.
I draw with vector graphics. You can google vector graphics to get a grasp of what it means as opposed to raster graphics, but all in all – vector graphics is considered lossless – because transforming (enlarging, zooming) vector graphics will not cause the unsightly blurring that happens with raster graphics. You can create any graphics of any size that you are comfortable with, and resize it later without fear of losing any clarity or detail. As such, I will be discussing with you several vector tools. Open fireworks and create a new document. Pick any size and choose white as your background. On the left pane, you should see a couple of icons.
The first set is your selection tools. It allows you to choose the objects that you’d like to work with. The next set are involve with bitmap (raster graphics), Read the rest of this entry »
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Hi there and welcome! I am an accomplished gamer, programmer and web designer enthusiast, an artist interrupted, a budding entrepreneur, and now a blogger. Through this blog, I will be sharing you my thoughts and I hope that you do the same. This blog will contain blogging tips & tricks, fireworks tutorials, photoshop tutorials, web design, graphics, and then some. As I’ve mentioned in my first post, I claim no level of proficiency in any of the tutorials that I will be posting, however, I pride myself in being a good instructor and I will try to make them as easy as possible for everyone.