Hot answers tagged adobe-fireworks
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I've always used Photoshop for my web designs but am going try Fireworks after reading Andre Reinegger's excellent comparison between the two:
http://www.reinegger.net/50_reasons_not_to_use_photoshop_for_webdesign.html
I think the most relevant of his reasons are scaling without distortion, the states panel and the user interface panel.
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There are some "rules" regarding color harmonies that you will find very helpful for this case and any future ones you might have regarding colors.
Color combination is really the most important part of color theory
and designing with colors, and also the hardest-- It always comes down
to your personal judgement and how you look at colors. There ...
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Head over to Adobe.com and do a bit of reading regarding features.
In general:
Photoshop = raster image editing (photographs) or digital painting (Illustration)
Photoshop Extended = Same as Photoshop + ability to use some 3D tools and basic video editing
Illustrator = Vector artwork (Logos, illustrations, etc.)
Indesign = Page layout (books, manuals, ...
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This is the Language Selection that the package has.
LS4 contains:
Deutsch - German
Español - Spanish
Español América Latina - Spanish
Français Canadien - French
Français - French
Italiano - Italian
Nederlands - Dutch
Português do Brasil - Brazilian Portuguese
Svenska - Swedish
LS16 has:
English
Japanese (not sure)
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the very definition of gray is that its lacking any hue. If there is no hue, there's no way to adjust saturation.
That said, most image editing software has a checkbox in the hue adjustment dialogue labeled 'colorize' that will do exactly as you want...it will give the gray a hue of your preference.
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It's true that a logo must look as good on a billboard as it does on a business card. That doesn't mean the same artwork will work in both cases.
It's not uncommon for the full-scale version of a logo to have detail that becomes completely lost or too fine and "busy" when scaled down. Stripes, strokes, even a typeface must be adjusted for tiny applications. ...
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"Also when I export PNG24 with alpha transparency in fireworks, it always adds background color, but in photoshop, it exports with alpha ."
You need a PNG32 for the alpha channel, so when you save a PNG24 with an alpha channel, PhotoShop actually makes it a PNG32.
In Fireworks, it actually let's you manually make the decision, so if you choose PNG24, you ...
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It's important not to over-complicate logos.
I believe it's more typical to design logos to be well suited for a broad range of sizes, as well as making it look good in both color AND black and white. When designing a logo you can't be 100% certain exactly what for the logo will be used for, so it needs to be as versatile as possible.
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Nope. What you are asking for is pretty much impossible. You can't render letterforms with only 3 vertical pixels. There have been attempts at making incredibly small screen type, though. For instance:
http://www.typophile.com/node/61920
That face has a 3px x-height. So pretty small. Is it readable? Not really. But a fun experiment.
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Fireworks has a pretty nifty shape interface that lets you either play with the points / beziers of a shape or grab sections of the shape as if they were pixels at will. So you could make a square, grab one corner and stretch it out, and then use a marquee tool to grab and delete a square section of the opposite corner. I was really, really surprised that ...
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Call me old school, different or just plain wrong but Photoshop should be used just for that: photo editing and retouching. Fireworks should be used for web design (the CSS exporting ability alone in Fireworks is heavily underrated much like Fireworks itself). Illustrator for, yep you guessed it: illustration work and logo's. InDesign for magazine/newspaper ...
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I have a love/hate relationship with Fireworks.
HATE:
Adobe treats Fireworks like Photoshop's retarded cousin.
It feels really unpolished and even has some bugs (out of memory is my favorite).
When you use it you can just feel how much potential a tool like this could have. Most of the time you'll be thinking: "Wow it would be so cool to have this or ...
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Do you want it small or do you want it readable? Anything smaller than 8 pt won't really be easily readable by anyone using standard (1024x768) screen resolution.
Remember that a logo is supposed to provide a graphic representation and good practice encourages redundancy (i.e. a text label below the icon). So for instance this button:
could mean many ...
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My experience with Fireworks has been good for web design, but I always go back to Photoshop. I wouldn't be so sure that CS2 is so out of date that you can't use it for web design.
I've used Expression Design for a few things and it is pretty capable as a vector design tool, but it really lacks the maturity that Photoshop and Fireworks have in tools, ...
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This is the way which i know....
From very starting first of all
create new layer (Your desired size)..
than fill it with your desired color
than convert this layer to smart object (its not necessary but if you need to
apply any more effect easily you can apply in this)
than go to filters apply extrude this will popup a window.
In this you can ...
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"I want Raster+Vector"
The primary alternative would be to use a raster illustration program and a vector illustration program. Common in the industry would be Photoshop + Illustrator. For open source, maybe The Gimp + Inkscape.
Alas, Fireworks doesn't really have any direct competition. It is/was a tool designed specifically for on-screen graphics with ...
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Other than Photoshop, whose guides are monomanically monochromatic, guides in the rest of the CS applications pretty much follow the rule that when selected they will assume the color of the layer they're placed on.
If you have, say, three layers in AI or ID and place guides on each one, a simple marquee selection will expose their "true colors" so you can ...
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From a thoroughly pragmatic point of view, keep in mind that that resources in terms of support, tutorial materials, etc. available for Photoshop are about 50x what's out there for Fireworks and about 500x the resources for Expression. That's not something to discount.
Speaking of discounts (how's that for a great segue?), since you already have Photoshop ...
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It would appear that there are three main effects going on - a gradient fill, a shape outline, and a drop shadow. All three can be applied using Layer Styles in Photoshop. You should then be able to bring this layer into Fireworks either as a .psd file or as a .png. There may be a way to do it in Fireworks but doing it in Photoshop is much, much easier. It ...
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File → Export…
Choose Layers to Files from the dropdown. Under the Options… you can choose the target file type (or you can choose to use the document's optimization settings set in the Optimize window).
Then Fireworks exports the layers (all) as separate files.
Also note that Fireworks' layers are represented as folders in the Layers window, unlike ...
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The page you linked has a solution: to use a PNG with transparency, you need to fake it out for specific browsers ( from that link there is also a MS support page see: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;294714 )
The advantage the PNG has in this case is that it supports alpha channels which essentially allows 256 levels of transparency ...
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PNG is fine for transparency. In my experience it's a question of how many colors your image has, and how big it ends up being. For vector I tend towards GIF and for raster I like PNG, but there's no hard-and-fast rule.
Experiment in the Save For Web dialog in Photoshop and play around with the colors. See how many you can reduce it to without compromising ...
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This is one of those cases where it's a good idea to plan things out beforehand and do some math. There is no way to take a 128x128 image and reduce it to 40x40 such that your lines will end up as whole pixels, nor aligned with pixel boundaries. You also can't take a one-pixel line, reduce it to 40/128 (5/16ths) of its original size and still have a ...
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There is no universal "best" software for GUI design. It just depends on your software/workflow preferences.
Photoshop
I'm not sure what you mean by "multiple editable gradients", but if you know what you're doing, Photoshop provides all the tools you need to design any GUI you can imagine. No "tricking" of tools needed.
Despite its name, Photoshop has ...
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The programming framework you are using has no bearing on the resolution of images you are using.
For on screen graphics, resolution in the context of pixels/inch is determined by the device itself. All you need to do is make the image the pixel size you want it to be.
In other words, if you want an image 100px x 100px, set up your photoshop file to be ...
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If I understand correctly, you want to be able to sample a colour in one programme (PhotoShop) and have this go direct to the keyboard, say as a hex representation. Then you will be able to paste this directly into Fireworks, or indeed any programme that requires a colour as text. For this you require an external utility. The best I have found is Jay Prall's ...
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A quick solution is to use one of the large number of "pngfix" libraries. Depending on your dependancy issues, you could use a jQuery pngFix or a javascript less solution (HTC solution) iepngfix.htc
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I want to learn Fireworks and recreating the text effect on this logo has given me just the little kickstart I needed to play about with things.
As per lawndartcatcher's answer, type in your text in whichever font you wish.
Click your bucket fill colour palette drop-down and select 'Fill Options...'
Select 'Gradient' from the drop down, select 'Linear' ...
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It is capable for both pixel and vector editing with tools optimized for the needs of the web designer and for rapid prototyping.
For me it is the best/most useful tools from both Photoshop and Illustrator combined in one intuitive and easy to learn interface. So, if you are switching from Photoshop you will probably get it all in a day. I use it regularly ...
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I would say all of the above and a huge jump in time saved - if you are good at Photoshop you'll definitely be great at using Fireworks. Anything that's missing in Fireworks would have to do with Photo editing in Photoshop - What we do is start the layouts with Fireworks and whenever required use Photoshop for its awesome filters and then bring the results ...
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