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Dec 20
Shiny Holiday Ribbon
Just in time for the the holiday season, this Adobe© Fireworks© tutorial will show you how to create a silky, flowing ribbon; the type that you could slap onto your graphic elements to make them more festive.
Oct 9
Sticky Notes
Sticky notes are little pieces of bright-colored paper with an adhesive strip on the back, allowing you to jot down reminders, checklists, or *gasp* passwords and post them onto a surface. This Adobe© Fireworks© tutorial will show you how to recreate them digitally, with a certain degree of realism, for your own design projects.
Aug 14
Image Editing Tricks Part II
We conclude our two-part Rapid Fire special with a technique that will save you from manual-erase horrors that come with placing one photo over another. Using vector shapes and the Multiply blend mode in Adobe© Fireworks© allows us to create adjustable superimpositions and preserve the shadows of the superimposed image. This works best with photos [...]
Aug 14
Image Editing Tricks Part I
This dual serving of Rapid Fire demonstrates some basic image compositing techniques in Adobe© Fireworks©. This is the first of two parts, and will serve as a simple intro showing how to create and match perspectives using the Distort Tool. And what better example than putting a screenshot over an empty screen?
