Nick Myers (June 23, 2008)
Get a perspective from one of the industry's premier design firms on how to use Fireworks to drive the design of interactive products.
Sheri German (June 2, 2008)
Complete a web design layout and create a style sheet using Dreamweaver.
Matt Stow (Apr. 14, 2008)
Use Dreamweaver CS3 and Fireworks CS3 to create a dynamic menu that is flexible and easy to update.
Learn about the latest features included with the new release of Fireworks CS4 beta.
Rick Jones (May. 27, 2008)
Learn about the new features that are included with the tenth anniversary release of Fireworks CS4.
Jim Babbage (June 2, 2008)
Leverage the export as PDF functionality in Fireworks CS4 beta to distribute click-through designs to your clients.
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Read about the upcoming cool features in Fireworks CS3 from Alan Musselman, Fireworks product specialist.
Nathan Smith (Mar. 10, 2008)
Find out why Fireworks is an excellent tool for designers and developers working in a collaborative enterprise environment.
Learn how to go from brainstorming session to final comp using the new tools in Fireworks CS3.
Vane Kosturanov & Vanco Stojkov (Feb. 19, 2008)
See how easy it is to create an icon in Fireworks and lend some professionalism to your website.
Spec out and build websites or desktop applications rapidly by creating comps of user interface designs.
Learn how to tell a story with your website design using the new features in Fireworks CS3.
Learn the benefits of wireframes and why Fireworks CS3 makes creating them so easy.
Follow these simple steps to get started in Fireworks:
Download and install Fireworks CS3.
Get started using the trial version of
Fireworks CS3. Note that some Developer Center articles and tutorials
require Fireworks CS3, although many apply still to Fireworks 8.
Learn about the Fireworks CS3 workspace.
Watch Using the workspace, a video by
Joseph Lowery that shows you how to use interface elements that are shared
between the Dreamweaver and Fireworks workspaces.
Familiarize yourself with Fireworks Help.
In Fireworks, select the Help menu, visit the Fireworks
documentation page, or use Fireworks LiveDocs.
The same Help documentation can be found in all three areas.
Watch and learn with video tutorials.
Watch other video tutorials in the Adobe
CS3 Video Workshop, an online video hosting application for videos that
also are included on the DVDs when you purchase Adobe Creative Suite 3. See
more below.
Master the finer points of Fireworks with tutorials and articles in the Fireworks Developer Center.
Communicate with other Flash users through our community resources.
The following video tutorials are part of the Adobe CS3 Video Workshop, an online video hosting application for videos that also are included on the DVDs when you purchase Adobe Creative Suite 3.
Joseph Lowery
Use interface elements that are shared between the Dreamweaver and Fireworks
workspaces, including panels, menus, and other interface elements.
Tom Green
Import files from Photoshop, including maintaining layer hierarchy, XMP data,
layer styles, and blending modes.
Tom Green
Learn what 9-slice scaling is and why it's useful; also compare a button that
uses 9-slice scaling with a button that does not use it.
Joseph Lowery
Learn how to preview, rate, filter, and manipulate the workspace for viewing
content, as well as efficiently use Bridge side-by-side with other CS3
applications.
Tom Green
Apply 9-slice scaling to a symbol in Fireworks, Flash, and Illustrator, and
learn how to best manipulate the guides.
Garrick Chow
Import, copy, and paste between Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and Flash; and learn
effective techniques for roundtrip editing between these three applications.
Michael Ninness
Rename a series of images all at once in Adobe Bridge and manage options for
batch-renaming.
Alan Musselman
Learn about the copy-and-paste workflow and roundtrip editing between
Fireworks and Flash, including how to copy and paste rich symbols from
Fireworks to Flash.
Tom Green
Learn how to modify Photoshop layers, layer effects, blends, and live effects
after importing them into Fireworks.
Tom Green
Use master pages and create multi-page layouts, as well as learn how to
create pages, navigate through them, and share layers to specified pages.
Tom Green
Create property scripts for rich symbols without having to know JavaScript,
as well as learn how to generate a property script, and then to use it with
rich symbols in Fireworks.
Tom Green
Batch-process your images and export a Flash web gallery using the new web
gallery tool in Fireworks.
Trevor McCauley
Quickly prototype a website interface using common interface elements, and
prepare the site for going into production.
Tom Green
Slice a button for a website using 9-slice scaling in Fireworks, and then
slice a scroll bar using 3-slice scaling.
For Fireworks 8 tutorials and articles, visit the Fireworks 8: Getting Started page ›
Check out these samples—fresh from the Fireworks community. Explore them to learn what you can develop with Fireworks CS3.
M. Hammad Bhatti
Create glossy buttons in Fireworks using simple layered effects. (New)
Rodger Fuller
This website concept design highlights Fireworks features such as the vector pen, filters, layer effects, masking, and powerful bitmap handling.
Andy Miller
Use this design to modify Joomla! CMS templates, or as a starting point for creating more advanced website layouts.
Ryan Smith
These samples show a simple website mockup and clean, attractive vector logos created only with Fireworks CS3.
Ryan Hicks
XD Brownbag Poster shows the usefulness of the gradient opacity controls in Fireworks CS3 and the Ellipse gradient's multi-handle directional controls. Use them to draw in a way that mimics the real behavior of light.
Lance Christmann
The illustrations in this sample show how capable Fireworks CS3 is at creating 3D-like illustrations with 2D tools. Each illustration in this sample was created entirely in Fireworks CS3, using almost all vector objects, and is on a different frame of the source file.
Trevor McCauley
Pixel Building is an example of "pixel art" in Fireworks CS3 where elements are created on a pixel level and sport a pixelated look.
José Angel Rivera Domínguez
Bullet demonstrates the effective use of bitmap manipulation in Fireworks CS3 in combination with vectors.
José Angel Rivera Domínguez
Reflect Ball is comprised of editable vector objects that can easily be moved around or flattened into a bitmap for more custom effects using the bitmap tools in Fireworks CS3.
Angelo Sabal
Recolor is a complex design pushing the limits of Fireworks CS3 using both bitmap and vector tools.
Angelo Sabal
Blueprint Logos contains a large collection of logotypes created in Fireworks CS3 that you can deconstruct to understand how they were developed.
Tell us about your sample for inclusion in the Fireworks Developer Center.
Download software updates to Fireworks 8 and download the trial of Fireworks CS3. Also download Fireworks command panels, styles, and rich symbols to take your Fireworks design and development to the next level.
Get the latest updates and additions to Fireworks.
Browse and download extensions for Fireworks, or create and post your own.
The Create Slideshow command in Fireworks CS3 makes it easy to create professional-looking slideshows of your photos.
Alan Musselman
Access the Create Slideshow source files to customize the look and feel of the out-of-the-box slideshow players. (Requires Flash CS3 Professional.)
Add command panels to Fireworks to enhance existing functionality and for image enhancements, object manipulation, and more.
Viktor Goltvyanitsa
Define color values, blend colors in new ways, and swap color schemes using the improved features of this updated command panel in Fireworks CS3.
Eugene M. Jude
Use this tool when designing and aligning multiple objects on the canvas to produce a pixel-perfect layout.
Grant Hinkson
Use this tool to edit complex gradients with a level of
precision previously not available in Fireworks.
Grant Hinkson
Migrate your existing Fireworks artwork to your Windows Presentation Foundation projects using this command panel.
Steven Grosvenor
Create isometric illustrations of any size, angle, and opacity. Included is a user guide (PDF) to get you started.
Add commands (macros) to Fireworks to improve your workflow.
Import symbol libraries from Fireworks 8 or earlier editions and convert them to work in the Fireworks CS3 Common Library.
Quickly export your mockups and wireframes into a slick slideshow geared for giving presentations to clients or colleagues.
Create graphics with 3D perspective using this new command built with the powerful JavaScript API included in Fireworks CS3.
Use the new Create Slideshow panel in Fireworks CS3 to build a slick slideshow in three quick steps.
Fireworks commands by John Dunning
Check out these commands from John Dunning, some of which have been updated to accommodate the new sub-layer and page features of Fireworks CS3, and others of which are new.
Take a 16 x 16–pixel document and create a favicon from it to associate with a particular website or web page. (This command runs only in Fireworks for Windows.)
Perform common tasks when working with pages in Fireworks CS3. Besides deleting, duplicating, and renaming pages, you can distribute frames to pages, import files into pages, apply export settings to all pages, and go to specific pages in your mockup.
Work with lots of frames and layers without the tedium. Use keyboard shortcuts for common frame and layer menu commands, or to hide a layer on every frame. Move a selection to a new sublayer, move the top layer up or down, and stack left to right.
Manipulate groups with ease. Paste the contents of the Clipboard into a selected group without losing any effects that were applied to the group. Copy attributes of subelements of a selected group and then paste them into other groups that share the same structure.
Insert frequently used elements into your document, such as icons, background graphics, blocks of text, etc. This extension comes with a few Windows cursor icons in the QuickClips library.
Hide everything except the currently selected element(s). Toggle the solo effect on and off so you can look at elements by themselves as well as within the context of all elements.
Download the following styles (STL files) to incorporate new styles into your Styles panel.
José Angel Rivera Domínguez
Quickly apply high-quality paper styles that include Live Filters with custom textures to simulate old paper effects.
Apply these styles to objects for instant cool effects, and easily change the colors, Live Filters, and textures in the styles to match your layout.
Get started quickly with predesigned assets including OS-level controls, buttons, animations, themes, and bullets. All assets are part of the Common Library that is accessible across projects.
Danielle Beaumont
PaperGrams are hand-drawn flow diagram and wireframe elements, created in the spirit of pencil and paper. As rich symbols in the Common Library of Fireworks CS3, they can be intelligently scaled with symbol properties for background color and font.
Tell us about your download for inclusion in the Fireworks Developer Center.
Share your development knowledge, see what other developers are creating, and ask your coding questions in the Fireworks development community.
Don't see a Fireworks user group in your area? Apply to start one! The requirements for starting an official Adobe Fireworks user group are very basic: you must have an active website dedicated to the group and you must hold a monthly user group meeting. That's all!
If you are interested in applying to start a Fireworks user group in your area:
Engage with the Fireworks community using the following resources.
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