I'm not sure how many users out there have Macromedia Fireworks, but I figure that a lot of them have very little clue on how to use it. So my goal in this topic is to show how you can make many great things in Fireworks. If you have questions, or would like to post a tutorial, feel free.
First tutorial is Making A Rope/Wire In A Few Easy Steps. Couple of things are needed if you do not already have them.
* Trebuchet MS Font Used In This Tutorial
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This is basically the end effect of what you can create.
At 9/17/06 01:06 AM, notwwwyzzerdd wrote: This is basically the end effect of what you can create.
i like them also im a sig maker but im not that good. i am decent but not that good so do one on how to make high quality sigs
After taking a course about it in school I'm actually really good at it. But I suck at drawing. \
God, I feel so out of place here.
"Will someone shove a pack of Skittles so far up this faggot's ass that he tastes the friggin rainbow?" -demonofthehiddenmist
Again, an example. Quick tip; if you colorize the first circle rather than making it desaturating it, you can also make some good-looking planets.
At 9/17/06 07:06 AM, Onnet wrote: This topic looks great, i will be checking back here alot, as i have fireworks, and there are very few good tutorials, on the internet for it, thanks =D
Yeah, i've never seen any good tutorials for it. I bought it, then never really used it, anyway, thanks for the tuts, keep em comming :D.
Uncle Ozcar aproves this topic :)
Kudos for you wwwyzzerdd :)
At 9/17/06 09:19 AM, Lopas1 wrote: Can you make a tutorial for fire, water and blood?
I've been working on one that has a little bit to do with water; Creating an Animated Rain Effect. Hope it's good enough.
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One of the few drawbacks is that filesize will sometimes come into question. The easiest way to deal with this is to specify 40 KB as your target filesize when exporting. Unfortunately, this will come at the expense of quality and vivid colors. My advice is if you're going to do a rainy sig, then at least make it look rather gloomy. I simply used a grayscale image because it was already such a high resolution to be able to meet filesize in full color. It is possible though, you just need to watch your colors and the amount of frames.
I still managed to make a fairly decent looking sig; albeit in grayscale, but at just under 39 KB.
At 9/19/06 12:11 PM, Lopas1 wrote: Example :
The Text goes behind the backgrounds...
It may be that you've animated the text for 1 frame less than the tank.
There's an easier way to share objects across frames without using a stationary animation.
At 9/20/06 02:14 PM, Lopas1 wrote: is this topic dead?
I hoped on more tutorials!!
I'm currently working on some more. I'm also working on a website templates, Photoshop brushes, and I have work in real life.
How about a Fireworks: Main and a Photoshop: Main?
At 9/20/06 05:24 PM, DashDingo wrote: How about a Fireworks: Main and a Photoshop: Main?
I really don't care. This is my personal Fireworks: Main. If a moderator feels that tutorials need to be archived in a single topic, then so be it.
At 9/21/06 12:25 AM, TheCrook wrote: I made a thread about this awhile ago, but I didn't get an answer, I made a animation in Fireworks for a ytmnd I was doing but now I need to know how to change the frame rate. Can you tell me?
Hope this answers your question.
Remarkable. Your rope looks fantastic your other tutorials are great as well. Makes me wish I had Fireworks.
Thread killer and proud of it :)
At 9/21/06 12:26 PM, McPaper wrote: Sorry to hijack!
my version.
At 9/21/06 12:26 PM, McPaper wrote: Sorry to hijack!
No prob. It makes me feel better that more people are posting here, so that it's not just one person explaining it all.
At 9/23/06 10:04 AM, Lopas1 wrote: Question:
How can i convert text to Bitmap, so i can smudge the text?
Modify > Flatten Selection.
At 9/23/06 11:23 AM, Truth wrote: Okay how do I make the filesize smaller?
File > Export Wizard (lol). Towards the bottom, there's a box that specifies what the target filesize should be. Simply enter in 40 KB.
Just a quick question.
Is it possible to do all those cool little smoke looking effects in fireworks?
Smoke.
Yeah, smoke's cool; But utterly pointless. Oh, here's how I do it.
can you have a tutorial on how to make cool backgrounds and cur characters out of images and blend them nicely?
At 9/21/06 01:35 AM, wwwyzzerdd wrote:
Hope this answers your question.
Can you have a movie with 2 different frame rates? Say half of the movie with 14 fps and then when it gets to an action sequence change it to 24 fps?
