Course description
Adobe Fireworks: New User
Adobe Fireworks is part of the Creative Suite collection
This two day training course provides a comprehensive introduction to Fireworks, allowing you to create a wide variety of visual elements for your web sites. You will learn to create animated gifs for banner ads, edit images, create rollover buttons, slice up content and optimise your files for the web.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
This Fireworks course is ideal for anyone who needs to produce professional Web graphics.
Training Course Content
Image Concepts
- About graphics on the web
- Planning graphic content
- Download times
- Image formats
The Fireworks Interface
- Setting preferences
- Using the menu bar/panels
- Working with image/object modes
- Creating a new document
- Importing images/graphics
- Magnifying
- Using the info palette
Working with Selections
- Using the selection tools
- Selection options
- Feathering
- Editing images
Drawing and Editing
- Working with the drawing tool
- Creating shapes/lines
- Working with the colour tools
- Using the colour table
- Using the colour mixer
- Working with swatches
Working with Vectors
- Using the modify bar
- Rotating/scaling vectors
- Grouping/splitting
- Arrange and align
- Merging vectors
- Masking with vectors
Working with Text and Styles
- Inserting text
- Using the text palette
- Typography and formatting
- Using styles and effects
- Saving styles
- Putting text on a path
Using Layers
- Working with the layers palette
- Creating/deleting layers
- Changing layer order
- Maintaining layers
- Sharing layers
Animating Graphics
- About animation
- Using tweening
- Working with symbols/instances
- Animated symbols
- Using the frames panel
- Frame x frame animating
- Frame timing
Working with Slices
- Setting up links
- Inserting slices
- Naming and exporting slices
Creating Buttons and Rollovers
- About JavaScript and behaviours
- Setting up a rollover
- Simple rollovers
Optimization
- Using the optimization panel
- Optimizing simple graphics/Quality images
- GIF vs JPEG – when and why
- GIF's and the colour palette
- GIF colour options
- JPEG's and quality settings
Why choose SquareOne Training
25 years' experience of delivering quality IT Training Services
All trainers Certified Microsoft Office Trainer (MOS) or higher
Public and in-house training throughout the UK
Expenses
This course is delivered on an in-house basis and is tailored to meet the specific requirements, interest and needs of any organisation or audience. For a custom training quote for your company, please give us a call on 0151 650 6907.
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