The Swatches Panel in Adobe Fireworks comes with a standard web-safe color palette like this: Although these are common, standard colors, most people find them limiting and want a greater range of colors, like this: You can create your own color palettes with custom swatches, save them, share them, and load them into Fireworks whenever…
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Adobe Fireworks has many powerful features, but some of them are not very well-known. This is the first in a series of posts that will reveal some of these features and briefly explain how to use them. Special thanks to Matt, Mikko, SiamJai, Aaron, John, Trevor, and the many users of Fireworks who have contributed…
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Creating web designs involves creating static comps of what the future web page could look like, so it can be very important to make sure that the comp represents images, icons, colors, and text in exactly (or nearly exactly) the same way that browsers will render it. One of the most challenging design elements to…
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My latest series of videos for Adobe Fireworks CS4 is now available over at Adobe TV. Check them out! Export CSS and Images Part 1: Creating the page structure and placing key content elements. Export CSS and Images Part 2: Using HTML component symbols and slices Export CSS and Images Part 3: Inserting placeholders for…
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