Adobe Fireworks Training Class

Adobe Fireworks Training Class: Course Topics

Module 1: Web graphics fundamentals

• Naming files
• Web file formats
• Color on the web
• Finding and applying colors to graphics
• Creating your own colors in Fireworks
• Using gradient fills

Module 2: Optimizing for the Web using Fireworks

• JPG, GIF and PNG
• Color Tables
• Dithering
• Transparency
• Matting
• Lossiness
• Matting

Module 3: Text in Fireworks

• Creating and formatting text
• Setting a text attribute
• Working on spacing, alignment, and orientation
• Applying your effects
• Styling your text
• Checking your spelling
• Setting text on a path
• Outlining your text

Module 4: Working with Bitmaps

• Using the bitmap selection tools
• Cropping and feathering
• Importing images
• Editing your images
• Optimizing and exporting images

Module 5: Working with Vectors

• Drawing tools
• Creating and modifying paths
• Auto Shapes
• Creating masks in Adobe Fireworks

Module 6: Creating Image Maps, Buttons & Rollovers

• Hyperlinking with hotspots and image maps
• Understanding states
• Creating rollover buttons
• Converting graphics to symbols

Module 7: Slicing in Fireworks

• Creating slices
• Exporting as tables or CSS

Module 8: Creating animation in Fireworks

• Creating and editing animations
• Adjusting your playback
• Working with tweening
• Animating with masks
• Exporting animations for the Web

Module 9: Understanding layers in Fireworks

• Getting familiar with Fireworks layers

Module 10: Exporting HTML and CSS

• Export settings
• Testing a project