Duration: 1 Day
ADOBE FIREWORKS INTRODUCTION
Objectives
Adobe Fireworks is an immensely popular tool for creating and editing graphics for the Web. This one day course is designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to Fireworks allowing you to create animated gifs for banner ads, create rollover buttons quickly and easily, slice up larger images into manageable chunks and optimise your file sizes for the Web amongst a host of other features. This course is recommended for anyone who needs to produce professional looking web graphics.
Content
Module 1: Introduction
- The Fireworks palettes - finding your way around
Module 2: Fireworks Basics
- Creating basic shapes
- Using brushes and fills
- Colour definition
- Text formatting
- Working with layers
Module 3: Creating Web Ready Artwork
- Image resolution and the Web
- Different file formats
- Understanding bit depth
- Working with transparency
- Using web safe colours
- Matching HTML defined colours
- More complex drawings
- Brush and fill variants
- Applying filters
Module 4: Creating Gif Animations
- Working with frames
- Tweening and symbols
- Timing your animations
- Image Mapping
- Imagemap formats
- Attaching URLs to images
- Generating and exporting
Module 5: Working with HTML HTML basics
- The completed HTML document
Module 6: Advanced Features
- Creating rollovers
- Image slicing
- Setting up object properties
- Exporting with automatic Javascript
Module 7: File Optimisation
- Using Fireworks to optimise file sizes for the Web
- Different file optimisation techniques
- Batch file processing to save time
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