BASIC APPLICATION TRAINING
Macromedia Fireworks 4 | MX | MX2004
This one day instructor led training course is aimed at anyone who needs to use Macromedia Fireworks for the production of flat or interactive graphics/images for the web. It is designed to instruct the student in the fundamentals of the application and it's relationship with an HTML authoring application such as Macromedia Dreamweaver. The course consists of a series of hands-on exercises demonstrating the various tools and techniques which will be used to add the graphical elements to a website.
The outline below is presented as a guide to the elements that would generally be covered however we will always include any special or additional requirements that are identified prior to the course.
- Introduction to Fireworks
- Creating and opening a document
- Using the toolbox and palettes
- Bitmap vs vector images
- Saving a document
- Importing images
- Adding and editing vector objects
- Filling and stroking a shape
- Applying effects
- Re-sizing the canvas
- Using rulers and guides
- Using layers
- Creating and importing text
- Text on a path
- Formatting text and paragraphs
- Text as an element of design
- Creating an animated GIF
- Testing an animation
- Exporting a GIF animation
- Creating simple rollover buttons
- Using the button editor
- Using the Link Wizard
- Creating a disjointed rollover
- Adding a pop-up menu
- About image maps
- Applying hotspots
- Defining URL's
- File formats
- Choosing the colour palette
- Creating a transparency
- Saving as a GIF
- Optimising and saving JPEG's
- Using slices
- Exporting selected slices
- Exporting rollovers
