Adobe Fireworks Training 
City Desktop Training offers Adobe Fireworks training in Sydney at our centrally located training rooms. Custom or Onsite Training at your workplace can also be easily arranged.
About Adobe Fireworks
Fireworks is the solution for professional Web graphics design and production. Fireworks allows you to add interactivity to your web graphics to create links, create rollover buttons and animated gifs. It also allows you to optimise web graphics to reduce the file size without sacrificing quality.
Another option is that you can work with both vector and bitmap features together and whilst Fireworks is primarily a design application for screen graphics — you can export to applications such as Illustrator, and reuse graphics designed in Fireworks for print purposes.
Who should attend
Graphic Designers and Web Producers
Adobe Fireworks Essentials 1 Day Course Outline
Essentials
This course is ideal for users who want to learn key Fireworks concepts and techniques to save time throughout the Web design process, using the essential features—slicing, animation, export settings and optimisation.
Preview all your work, including rollovers, without leaving the workspace, and compare files as they would be exported.
Drawing with Fireworks
Fireworks blurs the distinction between vector graphics and bitmap image graphics. Objects drawn in Fireworks have editable vector paths, yet magnifying a Fireworks object reveals pixels, which redraw in response to vector editing.
Drawing path objects is the default mode, creating artwork with paths and anchor points. You can also draw, paint, and edit pixels using traditional bitmap techniques like painting and masking.
Optimising
The ultimate goal in Web graphic design is to create great looking images that download as fast as possible. Optimisation settings apply only to exported images. Therefore, you can work freely through the creative process of design without worrying too much about limiting colour usage or applying effects. Then compare optimisation settings that are best for your image when you are ready to export.
Course Topics
The Interface
- - Using the Tools panel
- - Using the Property inspector
- - Configuring panels and panel groups
- - Working with mutliple documents
Working with Bitmap images
- - Resolution and file size
- - Cropping images
- - Managing images on the canvas
- - Importing images
- - Distortion-free bitmap scaling
- - Adjusting tonal range
- - Using the Align panel
- - Adjusting brightness with the Dodge and Burn tools
- - Applying the Unsharp Mask Live Filter
- - Repairing areas with the Rubber Stamp tool
Working with Selections
- - Making and modifying selections
- - Using the Magic Wand tool
- - Selecting with the lasso tools
- - Converting a selection to a path
Working with Vector Graphics
- - About vectors
- - Basic vector drawing techniques
- - Changing the appearance of basic vector shapes
- - Scaling vector objects
- - Adding text
- - Working with Auto Shapes
- - Using the Pen tool to create paths
- - Editing paths
- - Creating custom shapes
- - Customising fills and strokes
The Layers Panel
- - About layers
- - Identifying objects
- - Naming objects
- - Rearranging objects within a layer
- - Adding and naming layers
- - Moving objects from layer to another layer
- - Creating sub layers
- - Protecting layers
Masking
- - About Masks
- - Designing the banner ad
- - Creating and editing masks
- - Final touches
Working with Text
- - Text basics
- - Anti-aliasing
- - Special text effects
Optimising for the Web
- - Optimisation basics
- - Optimising a single image file
- - The Fireworks web tools
- - Creating and optimising slices
- - Creating hotspots
- - Adding interactivity
- - Exporting composite designs
Using Symbols
- - Symbols definition
- - Graphic symbols
- - Button symbols
- - Animation symbols
Prototyping Basics
- - Exploring the Pages panel
- - Creating a page for a multipage mockup
- - Adding hotspots for interactivity
- - Creating a secure, interactive PDF
| SYDNEY | September | October | November | December | January |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe Fireworks Course CS5 / CS4 | |||||
| Fireworks Essentials | 22 | - | 29 | - | - |
