Goodbye dear friend
May 07. 13Adobe Fireworks is dead
Archives / Tag: Fireworks
We all know it… it’s been a common accepted fact for far too long. We’ve been talking about the lack of interest from app developers at a regular local...
Source Code for my Fireworks Extensions
Jul 29. 11I will warn you, this ain’t going to be pretty but a few people have been asking. Feel free to tear these apart… do what you will with them… no license… no...
Still no real competition for Fireworks
Aug 26. 09With the recent announcement that Adobe will not be providing support for Creative Suite 3 (CS3) in Snow Leopard and my waning belief in Adobe’s ability to...
An open letter urging software developers to support Adobe Fireworks as a serious design tool.
Dear Adobe Fireworks, it’s not you, it’s me.
Feb 03. 09When we first met it was love at first sight, your combination of vector and bitmap tools, your web layer and slices… I just couldn’t resist.
Fireworks not dead (yet)
Feb 17. 06Very exciting news for Fireworks fans, Adobe have made an official statement in the Adobe forums which suggests we’ll see another version yet.
Creating Advanced Custom Fireworks Panels
Nov 17. 05Trevor McCauley has written a fantastic little (actually it’s 10 pages) tutorial on creating advanced custom Fireworks Panels using Flash.
Where’d those Fireworks Extensions go?
Jul 06. 05People (Alan) keep asking where all my Macromedia Fireworks Extensions vanished to. Well, they were victims of my re-design. However plans are afoot to...
Macromedia Fireworks Beta
Apr 11. 05The Macromedia Fireworks development team are looking for candidates to beta test the next version of Macromedia Fireworks.
‘Extrude Path’ Extension for Fireworks
Mar 11. 05Check out Trevors new Extrude Path Command for Fireworks.
Fireworks Best Practices Macrochat
Jan 26. 05On Friday just gone, Alan Musselman (Macromedia Senior Product Support Engineer) hosted a live Breeze Presentation on Fireworks MX 2004 Best Practices. The...
Re-design Step 2: Look & Feel Concepts
Jan 21. 05I’ve been playing about with some ideas for the re-design in Fireworks…
‘Pinwheel’ AutoShape for Fireworks
Jan 04. 05Trevor McCauley has released another(again!) new Fireworks AutoShape called...
Fireworks Tips & Tricks Revealed
Dec 23. 04Five designers interviewed are asked to reveal some of their favorite Fireworks Tips & Tricks in the December Macromedia Edge Newsletter.
‘File Info’ AutoShape for Fireworks
Dec 22. 04Trevor McCauley has released another(!) new Fireworks AutoShape called ‘“File...
Senocular (Trevor McCauley) has released a new Fireworks Extension ‘“Simple Linked...
Tutorial on Creating Fireworks AutoShapes
Dec 22. 04Trevor 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...
Twist and Fade 2004 released
Oct 19. 04Steven Grosvenor has finished work on his new ‘Twist and Fade’ command for Fireworks MX 2004.
‘Inspire’ AutoShape for Fireworks
Oct 02. 04Trevor McCauley writes:
Photo re-touching plug-ins for Fireworks
Oct 02. 04Jan Esmann is an artist who has written a collection of photo editing and restoration plug-ins for Fireworks. Plug-ins include:
‘Define Working Directory’ Command Panel
Sep 28. 04Trevor McCauley posts ‘another’ useful Fireworks extension: ‘“Define Working...
Fireworks gives Samuel warm fuzzies
Sep 28. 04Samuel Wan has posted some nice words regarding Fireworks as a UI sketching tool.
‘Orb’ AutoShape for Fireworks
Sep 28. 04A nice and simple new AutoShape from Steven Grosvenor which allows you to create a glassy orb, with control over shadow opacity, base color, overlay color...
‘3D Box’ AutoShape for Fireworks
Sep 27. 04Senocular (Trevor McCauley) has been busy again and this weekend posted another Fireworks MX 2004 AutoShape to his site.
Twist and Fade 2004 sneak peek
Sep 26. 04I hear from Steven Grosvenor that Twist and Fade MX 2004 is nearly ready for release.
How to steal Fireworks AutoShapes
Sep 23. 04Senocular makes an interesting post about a Fireworks MX 2004 command which allows you to ‘steal’ AutoShapes which are embedded into PNGs. Not only is this...
Fireworks ‘Heart’ AutoShape
Sep 20. 04Senocular has a new Fireworks AutoShape available on his site which allows you to easily create ‘Heart’ shapes. It consists of 4 points for controlling...
Fireworks ‘Ruler’ AutoShape
Sep 20. 04Senocular has written another clever little AutoShape for Fireworks, but this time it behaves more like a utility. The Ruler AutoShape allows you to measure...
Fireworks ‘Stroke Path’ Command
Sep 20. 04Senoculars new Stroke Path command lets you take a selected element in Fireworks (bitmap, vector drawing, group, etc.) and duplicate it along a selected...
Fireworks ‘Main Toolbar’ Source Files
Sep 15. 04I’ve made the source files for my Fireworks ‘Main Toolbar’ command panel available to download.
Team Macromedia (Fireworks)
Sep 15. 04Last month I was invited to become a member of the Team Macromedia programme for Fireworks.
New Fireworks ‘Color Palette’ Panel
Sep 06. 04Viktor Goltvyanitsa has released a new version of his Fireworks Color Palette Command Panel. Version 1.2 includes the following new features:
I’ve got Art Rage!
Aug 02. 04One of my friends at work pointed me in the direction of a painting application he found last week called ‘“Art Rage”:http://www.ambientdesign.com/’. The...
Phireworx ‘Image Edger PRO’
Jul 20. 04Steven Grosvenor has been busy. A couple of days ago he posted a new Fireworks MX / MX 2004 Command on his site called ‘“Image Edger...
Fireworks ‘Main Toolbar’ Command Panel
Jul 17. 04I’ve finished the Fireworks ‘Main Toolbar’ Command Panel and it’s now available to download for free.
I’ve been tinkering during spare moments with a simple little command panel to replace the ever so ugly ‘main toolbar’ in Fireworks MX / MX 2004.
Phireworx ‘Batch Resizer’
Jul 13. 04Steven Grosvenor has released a new Fireworks MX / MX 2004 Command panel called ‘“Batch Resizer Percent”:http://www.phireworx.com’ (?).
A New Fireworks MX 2004 Autoshape: Ribbon
Jul 09. 04Hiroshi Miyazawa of Macromedia has developed another new AutoShape for Fireworks MX 2004 called Ribbon.
A New Fireworks MX 2004 Autoshape: Wave
Jun 22. 04Hiroshi Miyazawa of Macromedia has developed a new AutoShape for Fireworks MX 2004 called Wave.
Resources for Extending Fireworks
Jun 21. 04Kim Cavanaugh has written a couple of articles on extending Fireworks which are hosted at Community MX. The fist covers Filters (Plug-ins) and the second...
My Duplicate, Offset & Rotate Fireworks Extension is now free to download. Sales of this as a commercial package have pretty much dried up, so why not let...
Fireworks Extension Authors
Jun 14. 04Links to Fireworks Extension Authors have moved to the ‘“source // extensions”:http://www.nathanpitman.com/source/extensions.php’ section, but are also...
Fireworks Symbol wish
Jun 10. 04I wish Fireworks had the ability to edit symbols in place as you can in Flash. Allowing users to double click on symbols within the canvas to navigate...
New Phireworx Commands on the way
Jun 07. 04I hear on the grapevine from Steven Grosvenor at Phireworx that he has some new Fireworks MX Command panels on the way…
Some neat (free) Fireworks plug-ins
May 27. 04Via Digital Media Minute I came across a nice range of free and shareware Fireworks (and Photoshop) plug-ins wirtten by Richard Rosenman.
Fireworks API wish
May 24. 04So, I’ve been looking into writing some more Fireworks MX Extensions recently and something has cropped up. The one thing the Fireworks API really lacks is...
Extending Fireworks
May 07. 04Great new article on the Fireworks Developer Center about Extending Fireworks written by Kleanthis Economou. Go check it out.
Fireworks MX 2004 AutoShapes Tutorial
Apr 26. 04Macromedia have posted a nice tutorial on the Fireworks Developer Center on creating AutoShapes for Fireworks MX 2004. The tutorial covers:
Fireworks vs Illustrator via hicksdesign
Apr 26. 04I came across a post on the hicksdesign journal discussing the merits of Macromedia Fireworks over Adobe Illustrator. It’s an interesting read for anyone...
New Fireworks Command Panel: Auto Save
Apr 22. 04I’ve added Auto Save to the extensions list, it’s been around for a while but I just never got to putting it online. Based on an extension written by...
New Fireworks Command Panel: Calculator
Apr 22. 04I’ve developed a Calculator command panel for Fireworks. You can use the �x,y,w & h� buttons to grab information from the selected object/s on the canvas.
Fireworks Commands Wrapper
Apr 21. 04Kleanthis Economou has posted an updated Fireworks Commands Wrapper for Flash on the Macromedia Exchange. This allows you to author Fireworks Commands or...
Senocular identifies that some Fireworks MX extensions may cause Fireworks MX 2004 to unexpectedly error out and quit on startup. I’d be interested to know...
Fireworks Remote Procedure Calls
Apr 07. 04Macromedia has made documentation available online for the Fireworks Remote Procedure Calls or RPCs.
Great new Fireworks Extensions
Apr 03. 04Via Thierry Lorey at ‘Fireworks Zone‘ I came across a ton of new Fireworks Command panels and AutoShapes. Thanks go out to ‘Senocular‘ for these, it’s great...
Phireworx SmartTabs
Mar 23. 04Phireworx have just released ‘SmartTabs’ which is an AutoShape for Fireworks MX 2004.
Advanced New Document 04
Mar 02. 04Mr Edoardo Zubler has reworked his fantastic ‘Advanced New Document’ command for Fireworks MX. You can download the standard version from his site and...
Phireworx blog
Feb 22. 04Steven Grosvenor has started a blog on the Phireworx site for more regular ramblings regarding Fireworks, Extension development and such like. There’s also...
Super Nudge
Feb 05. 04Brian Edgin of Phireworx has released a nifty little new extension for Fireworks MX.
ShapeShifter Set 2 for Fireworks MX allows you to quickly and easily add callouts and speech bubbles to your active document. It’s free to download from the...
Use Duplicate, Offset & Rotate to:
Similar in functionality to Fireworks MX “New Document” dialog box, “Advanced New Document“ command enables you to create new Fireworks documents starting...
Phireworx have announced that Brian Edgin has joined them as a Senior Developer. Brian has spent the last two and half years doing interface and new feature...
Writing extensions for Fireworks MX is fun…
May 16. 03Writing extensions for Fireworks MX is fun. Last night I spent some time putting the final touches to a command panel that I’ve been working on for a long time.
Kleanthis has released a set of 4 new Fireworks MX extensions. I downloaded these some time ago, but totally forgot to report on them, they are:
Phireworx release ‘Super Guides’ for Fireworks MX.
According to Kleanthis Economou (Project Fireworks), FireFrame provides a convenient way to enhance the appearance of your photos and add artistic flare to...
Macromedia have added style guidelines for publishing Fireworks extensions to the exchange.
My Macromedia Fireworks extensions have been featured on the cover mounted CD-ROM of ‘Practical Web Projects‘ Issue 7.