One of the best places to find great web graphics other than just searching for images on the Internet is. The Internet is crammed with good graphics that you can nick or rip.Īnd even Picasso had a saying he said "Good artists copy great artists steal." So I'm gonna show you how to get a design, edit it, make it to your own so it's different and it's stands out. And yet it's one of the easiest things to create because once you understand where to find good graphics and recognize them. So I recommend you do everything I do on the screen and you're gonna master Fireworks very quickly and I start it from scratch just like you so let's get started! I need some cool web graphics I can use.Īnd web graphics are typically the place where people stumble and fall. And I'm gonna show you everything you need to know when we get there, but let's start working now because that's how you can actually learn stuff by doing, right? I just CLICK save.Īnd now you can see the Fireworks user interface. Your site folder name could be something like but I'm gonna NAME it as "site1"Īnd inside my site folder I CREATE a new folder for my Fireworks documents.įile name also could be something like your domain name but again I'm gonna NAME it as "site1"įile format is PNG as I mentioned before. Ok, you need a site folder for every website project so I just CREATE a new folder. CLICK Ok!Īnd I have a brand new document. Resolution: doesn't matter now because I define the canvas size in pixels.Ĭanvas color: actually you can change it anytime but I go with transparent. So I MAKE it 5000 pixels wide and 5000 pixels high. It's pretty much like the Photoshop PSD format.Ĭanvas size: actually, all my web graphics are gonna be stored inside this document and I need some real estate. Fireworks uses an enhanced version of the PNG format as it's native file format and it maintains all the information in the file all the layers and everything. So when you open Fireworks you are gonna see the START SCREEN as you can see right here. And you can download a free trial of Fireworks just sign up at and you can download a fully functional trial. Now you probably know Photoshop and Photoshop is great, I love it, it's the best photo editing program but Fireworks was designed specifically to create screen graphics and optimized graphics for the web.Īnd it's much better when it comes to creating web graphics so that's why web designers use it. In this video I'm gonna show you how to create web graphics using Adobe Fireworks. Download everything we made in this video (ZIP)
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