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?
Jul 17
Quick ‘N Dirty Outlines
This tutorial will show you how to use readily available corroded fonts to achieve a marker- or chalk-stroke effect with which to frame or emphasize your design elements in Fireworks.
Jul 17
Photo-Realistic
Make your digital images more convincing and lifelike with just a handful of gradients and custom shadows. Once you’re done, your pictures will look like real photo prints, you’d swear they popped out of the screen.
Jul 17
The Making Of A Star
Whether it’s signifying merit or signalizing new content, a golden seal graphic often does the trick. Utilizing two of Fireworks’ nifty features—Auto Shapes and Text On A Path—you’ll be stamping shiny seals in no time.
Jul 16
Sunburst effect
This tutorial will show you where to download the filter, and show you how to use it to make sunburst effects.