Now that Adobe Fireworks CS6 has been released, there is much interest in how to use it more effectively. Fireworks is a powerful tool, but it can be made even more powerful by adding extensions. I’ve been using Fireworks for more than twelve years, and here are some of my favorite extensions, the ones I…
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I’m excited to be returning to the Designer to Developer Workflow (D2W) Conference in Kansas City this May16-18 in the historic Country Club Plaza. This is a great conference for those of us working on multi-disciplinary teams and who are often moving among design, prototypes, and code. I will be teaching a half-day intensive class…
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Sending modified photos from mobile devices has become big business for apps like Instamatic and Hipstamatic, but what if you want to create similar effects for photos not on your mobile device? Adobe Fireworks, Live Filters, and Styles to the rescue!
There is often confusion between index and alpha transparency. What are they? When do we use them? How do we create them?