Category: Fireworks
On Friday just gone, Alan Musselman (Macromedia Senior Product Support Engineer) hosted a live Breeze Presentation on Fireworks MX 2004 Best Practices. The presentation covered:
- Simple Rollovers and Disjointed Rollovers
- Side by side comparison of slice behaviors and button symbols
- When to/not to use popup menus
- Creating/duplicating a symbol and nesting symbols within a button
- Why/when to use batch processing
If, like me, you missed the live broadcast, you can watch back the archived presentation.
I’ve been playing about with some ideas for the re-design in Fireworks…
Trevor McCauley has released another(again!) new Fireworks AutoShape called ‘“Pinwheel”:http://www.senocular.com/downloads/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1103905435&archive=&start_from=&ucat=8&kind=8’.
The Pinwheel Auto Shape creates a ‘Pinwheel’ consisting of 2 to 16 consecutive spirals placed revolved around a common center. It consists of 5 control points to control size (inner and outer radius), rotation, spiral count, spiral style (solid, checker, and wire which can be cycled through by clicking the Style and Count control point) and spiral curvature.
As an additional feature, you can use the sub select tool to alter the path of the primary spiral (the one previewed when altering the shape that is formed between the control points) and have all other consecutive spirals mimic the change. Altering the shape with control points after doing this will undo the effects.
Five designers interviewed are asked to reveal some of their favorite Fireworks Tips & Tricks in the December Macromedia Edge Newsletter.
*Fireworks is an indispensable tool for ‘rapid prototyping’ and gives absolute flexibility while still allowing me to maintain a library of shared symbols and styles,* says Pitman.
*Symbols are massively underused and can save you hours and hours when you’re working on large projects.*
:)
Trevor just doesn’t let up. As a part of his relentless one man conquest to populate the world with Fireworks AutoShapes he has taken it upon himself to write a tutorial for mugs like me so that we might be able to aspire to developing something with the quality and flair of his offerings.
I think a big reason there aren’t more Auto Shapes out there is because people just don’t know how to make them. Hopefully this will shed some light on the subject.
Trevor McCauley
What a guy. :)
