Adobe Fireworks Training Class

Adobe Fireworks Training Class Length: 1 day

This one-day course is for those who need to know how to use Fireworks for on-screen images. Learn to create images that look good and are optimized for the Web; also learn about compression, file formats, color, slicing, animations, and the creation of special effects, such as rollovers and image maps. Instructed by an Adobe Certified Expert and Adobe Certified Instructor for Fireworks.

This Fireworks for Web Graphics training class is available as a regularly scheduled class at AGI’s classroom location or as a private or custom Web Graphics class at your location.

This Fireworks for Web Graphics training class is delivered by the instructors who write the Digital Classroom series of books, so you learn from experts and instructors when you take a training class with AGI.

Adobe Fireworks Training Class Course Dates

All classes are led by a live instructor. Class times listed are Eastern time.

Please call 800-851-9237 or 781-376-6044 to schedule a course.

Contact AGI to request course dates.

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

There are no prerequisites for this Fireworks course.

Adobe Fireworks Training Class: Course Materials

You will receive a comprehensive course manual for this class developed by the Adobe Certified Instructors at AGI. AGI instructors that have created many of the official training guides and books for Adobe Systems.