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Masking in Fireworks CS4

Tom Green — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:06:15 +0000

Tom Green covers the basics of using bitmap and vector masks in Fireworks.

Click here to download the files to follow along with this tutorial.

Fireworks CS4: Pages

Tom Green — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:19:59 +0000

Prototype websites and other interactive documents using Fireworks. This tutorial talks about creating a website using master pages and other page features. Download these files and follow along with the tutorial.

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Creating AIR Applications with Adobe Fireworks, Part 3

Tom Green — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:29:23 +0000

In the final lesson of this tutorial, Tom Green shows how to design a simple Flex application and export it from Fireworks.

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Prototyping and Creating AIR Applications with Adobe Fireworks, Part 2

Tom Green — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:13:20 +0000

In part 2 of this 3-part tutorial, Tom Green continues prototyping an AIR application using tools in Fireworks.

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Prototyping and Creating AIR Applications with Adobe Fireworks, Part 1

Tom Green — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:19:55 +0000

In the first part of this 3-part tutorial, Tom Green starts prototyping an AIR application using tools in Fireworks.

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Fireworks 101, Part 2

Tom Green — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:56:03 +0000

Tom Green shows how to make your life easier using these Fireworks productivity tips. This tutorial includes things like sharing layers between pages and creating dummy text.

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Animating Floating Text in Flash

Tom Green — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:55:13 +0000

Tom Green demonstrates this floating text technique by cutting the text out of the an image using Fireworks and then animating the text floating using Flash.

Click here to check out Tom’s tutorial on creating audio files to use with flash video, which is where this floating text technique was first discussed.

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Photoshop Image to Web using Fireworks CS4

Tom Green — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:25:10 +0000

Tom Green shows off how to bring a Photoshop image into Fireworks and export it as an html document.

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Fireworks 101

Tom Green — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:52:14 +0000

Tom Green is really enjoying the new CS4 version of Fireworks. In this tutorial, he goes over some of the features that help with fast prototyping, like the fit canvas button and the optimizing panel. If you want to follow along, the image used in this tutorial is available for download.

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Creating Rain in After Effects

Tom Green — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:39:06 +0000

In the first part of this two-part tutorial, Tom Green opens up a picture of the Swiss Alps, re-sizes the image in Fireworks, and creates a rain simulation in After Effects.

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Image Slide Show in Adobe Fireworks

Tom Green — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:05:53 +0000

How do you create a slide show without having to write a bit of code? The answer is Adobe Fireworks.

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Fireworks CS4 Symbols

Tom Green — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:18:57 +0000

Tom Green discusses integration between Fireworks and Flash CS4. In this tutorial, he creates a button in Fireworks and brings it into Flash to give it functionality.

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