Category: Extensions
Trevor McCauley has released another(!) new Fireworks AutoShape called ‘“File Info”:http://www.senocular.com/downloads/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1101933160&archive=&start_from=&ucat=8&kind=8’.
This AutoShape creates a bar at the bottom of your document with common information regarding your file. The information is completely customizable and can be edited by clicking on the shape’s control point.
Properties include:
- File Name
- Date
- Time
- Layers
- Frames
- Width
- Height
- Resolution
- Resolution Units
- Platform
- Fireworks Version
Very smart.
Senocular (Trevor McCauley) has released a new Fireworks Extension ‘“Simple Linked Selection”:http://www.senocular.com/downloads/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1101750356&archive=&start_from=&ucat=8&kind=8’ which allows you to ‘link’ objects on your canvas meaning that as you select one object, all those ‘linked to it’ will also be selected.
Steven Grosvenor has finished work on his new ‘Twist and Fade’ command for Fireworks MX 2004.
Improvements in v4.0.8 include:
- More than 30% faster than previous version
- More granular control of the effect with Phase Shift, Horizontal and Vertical Scale and Motion Blur controls
- Preset Manager to save your favourite effects, preloaded with several interesting effects
- New Sliders with dual feedback, via slider for coarse changes, or via input boxes for exact changes
It’s free and you can download it here.
Jan Esmann is an artist who has written a collection of photo editing and restoration plug-ins for Fireworks. Plug-ins include:
- Black & White Studio
- Sharpness Editor
- Toned photos
- Dynamic range Compression
- Lens distortion correction
- Transparency Editor
- Contrast Editor
- Color correction
- Anti-aliasing
- Black definition
- Exposure correction
- Saturation Editor
- White-balance correction
- Radial density correction
- Noise Filter
- Edgeline drawing
- Posterizer
- Soft-filter
- Brightness Editor
The plug-ins are priced individually but you can also purchase the entire set for �100. No idea whether the plug-ins are any cop, but there seem to be a lot of positive testimonials on the his site.
Trevor McCauley writes:
When I was a kid I drew a lot. When I couldn’t think of anything to draw, I would close my eyes and randomly mark 12 dots on a blank piece of paper. Then I would connect the dots and examine the resulting shape to figure out what it could be – what I would attempt to draw next. This shape attempts to do the same. I called it Inspire as it acts like (and was influenced by) my inspiration technique as a child. All it does is creates a random shape on your screen.
If you feel you’re running out of ideas, maybe this shape can send some inspiration your way.
