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New Fireworks user group - San Francisco Bay Area

jen dehaan — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 17:44:42 +0000

A brand new Adobe User Group, dedicated to Fireworks, is starting in the San Francisco Bay Area. The first meeting is October 23rd, 2007 at 7:00pm here at Adobe’s 601 Townsend office in San Francisco.

To sign up for the group, and RSVP for the meeting, go to their website here:

http://www.fireonthebay.org/

The user group manager is really cool, and I plan to be there too. You’ll also get to hear Alan Musselman speak, but don’t let that deter you from showing up. (oh ha ha…) It should be a good meeting, hope to see you there!

Getting started with Fireworks CS3 - tutorial

jen dehaan — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:27:41 +0000

Another good tutorial from the Vineyardesigns site, this time on getting started with Fireworks CS3. They have broken down the steps for creating and slicing a simple website layout into four easy-to-follow tasks.

http://www.vineyardesigns.com/resources/fireworks/index.shtml

If you have never used Fireworks CS3 as an image editor, or if you haven’t used an image editor before at all, this tutorial seems like a good place to start. Fireworks is really making itself into a good, full-fledged, prototype-making machine. If you’re creating sites, or prototyping apps, Fireworks is a good tool … and this tutorial is a good place to start.

9-slice scaling in Fireworks CS3

jen dehaan — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 23:00:07 +0000

A nice tutorial on how to use 9-slice scaling in Fireworks CS3.

With 9-Slice Scaling, objects can now be scaled, bigger or smaller, while retaining their right proportions. Before this ability in Fireworks, if an object such as the one below was scaled bigger it became distorted. See the comparison below when I tried to scale the button larger horizontally. As you can see there’s quite a bit of difference between the two.

Read the tutorial here: http://virtualclues.com/9Slice_Scaling.php