Product Description

This self-paced guide to Adobe Fireworks CS4 is ideal for beginning users who want to learn key Fireworks concepts and techniques, while readers who already have some experience with Fireworks can use this book to learn Fireworks CS4's more advanced features and newest tools. Using step-by-step, project-based lessons, each chapter walks readers through the creation of a specific project, with successive chapters building on the reader's growing knowledge of the program.
With Fireworks CS4, users can collaborate with other Adobe Creative Suite applications to design and mockup basic Web pages or interfaces for rich Internet applications. Demo a design live for a client, or export the design as an interactive PDF and email it to them. Fireworks sports a new user interface, shared in common with other applications in Creative Suite 4. Export complete Web page designs as web standards-compliant CSS-based layouts, or as PDF

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8760 in Books
• Published on: 2009-04-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

About the Author
The Adobe Creative Team is made up of designers, writers, and editors who have extensive, real-world knowledge of and expertise in using Adobe products. They work closely with the Adobe product development teams and Adobe's Instructional Communications team to come up with creative, challenging, and visually appealing projects to help both new and more experienced users get up to speed quickly on Adobe software products.

Customer Reviews

Excellent as Expected
The Adobe Classroom in a Book series is, as one would expect, a dependable source of basic instruction on the fundamentals of a given software title. The Fireworks title is no different: eleven lessons that move from the most basic functions, to progressively more complex. Fireworks is, in my view, an undeservedly poor cousin of powerhouses Photoshop and Illustrator. The program is incredibly useful for preparing client comps and on-screen images. As a new Fireworks user, I have become a real fan of the program, and the CIB book was a very good introduction. The included CD features all the working files needed to complete the lessons, as well as two bonus chapters/lessons. If you learn best in a tutorial environment, where practice is emphasized rather than theory, you can't go wrong with this one.

powerful image manipulations
The Adobe Creative Team is very prolific. They keep coming out with extensions of graphics applications, building an expansive suite. The latest offering is Fireworks, as described here.

It's all about more powerful and more specialised techniques for image manipulation. The premier claim of the package is the integration of vector editing methods and bitmap methods. As expected, this is in the context of existing frameworks, where you can take advantage of standard ideas like layers.

Unsurprisingly, HTML and CSS examples are also given. An acknowledgement that many readers have to deal with editing web pages and images in those pages.

The book also goes into talking about commonalities with Photoshop and Illustrator. So that you can key off any experience you already have with those packages. Of course, you may first want to consult more comprehensive texts on them, Adobe Photoshop CS4 Classroom in a Book and Adobe Illustrator CS4 Classroom in a Book.