Fireworks CS3 DVD: Table of Contents

Fireworks CS3 DVD: Table of Contents

Subject Duration

Introduction:

Welcome    

1) What's new in Fireworks CS3   

v       Photoshop CS3 Import

v       Photoshop Live Effects

v       Illustrator CS3 Import

v       Slice 9

v       Rich Symbols

v       FlexBuilder 2 Prototyping

v       New Layers structure

v       Common Library

v       Symbol Properties panel

v       Flash/Dreamweaver CS3 integration

v       Auto Shape Properties Panel

2) The Fireworks CS3 Interface   

v       The Windows workspace

v       The Macintosh workspace

v       The Preferences

v       Panels

v       Making room on the screen

v       New Commands- Create Slideshow, Create Symbol Script

v       Using the keyboard to select tools

v       Getting Help

3) Drawing in Fireworks CS3

v       Vectors and Bitmaps

v       Creating Basic Shapes

v       Combining shapes

v       Using Auto shapes and Auto Shape properties

v       The Pen Tool

v       Freeform Tool

v       Drawing lines

v       Rulers,Guides and Grids

4) Picking and using Color in Fireworks CS3

v       The new Color Palette Panel

v       The Color Mixer Panel

v       Using the Eyedropper tool

v       The Replace Color tool

5) Using Fills and Strokes   

v       Fill types

v       Creating gradients

v       Stroke Types

v       Stroke Settings

v       Custom Strokes

v       Adding arrows

v       Add Picture Frame command

6) Bitmap Painting Tools   

v       Making Selections

v       Using the Pencil Tool

v       Using the Paint Brush Tool

v       Using the Eraser Tool

v       Using the Rubber Stamp Tool

v       Using the Blur tool

v       Using the Sharpen Tool

v       Using the Dodge Tool

v       Using the Smudge Tool

v       Using the Burn Tool

7) Using text in Fireworks CS3  

v       Using the Property inspector to format text

v       Importing text

v       Spell checking and using the Spelling Set up panel

v       The Special characters panel

v       Text on a path

v       Converting text to paths

v       Converting text to a bitmap

8) Image Editing and Color Correction in Fireworks CS3

v       Using the Image Editing Panel

v       Using the Property inspector

v       Using Levels

v       Using Curves

v       Adjusting Hue/Saturation

v       Setting White and Black points

v       Adjusting Color in Channels

v       Using Unsharp mask

v       Red Eye removal

v       Using the Create Slideshow Command

9) Symbols in Fireworks CS3

v       Creating a Symbol

v       Applying 9-Slice Scaling

v       Reviewing the Common Library

v       Adding Symbols (Create a site flow chart)

v       Creating Rich Symbols

v       Using the Symbol Properties panel

v       Exporting Symbols to Flash CS3

v       Using the Flex Widgets

10) Masking in Fireworks CS3

v       Creating and using vector masks

v       Creating and Using Bitmap masks

v       Using hide and reveal

v       Using Text as a mask

v       Alpha masking

11) Special Effects in Fireworks CS3

v       Live Effects vs Filters

v       Using Photoshop Live Effects

v       Incorporating Photoshop Layer effects

v       Using Blends

v       Using Photoshop layer blends

v       Using styles

v       Using the Assets panel

12) Aligning and Transforming objects
in Fireworks CS3 

v       Aligning and distributing objects

v       Transforming objects

13) Layer Essentials in Fireworks CS3

v       The basics

v       Managing layers

v       Sharing layers

v       Importing multi layer Photoshop documents

v       Using Master Pages

14) Optimizing  techniques

v       Gif Optimization

v       JPG Optimization

v       Using the 2-Up and 4-Up View Panels and the Optimize panel

v       Optimizing in Image Preview

v       The Optimize to Size Wizard

15) Exporting a   Fireworks CS3 document

v       Using the Image Preview menu

v       Using the Export Wizard

v       Using the Export Area tool

v       Using the History Panel

v       Using Batch processing

v       Exporting for FlexBuilder

16) Slicing essentials   

v       Image slicing

v       Using the Ploygon Slice tool

v       HTML Slicing

v       Incorporating Slice Guides from PhotoshopCS 3

v       Exporting a Single Slice

17) Creating rollovers

v       Simple rollovers

v       Exporting rollovers

v       Complex rollovers

v       Creating image maps

v       CSS pop-up menus

18) Animation in Fireworks CS3

v       Frame-by-frame animation

v       Tweening

v       Animating masks

v       Animating images

v       Animating symbols

v       Exporting animations

v       Importing animations

19) Integrating with Photoshop and Illustrator CS3

v       Quick Export

v       Round tripping (Illustrator>FW. FW>Illustrator)

v       Round tripping (Pshop>FW. FW>Pshop)

20) Integrating with Dreamweaver CS3

v       Quick Export

v       Round tripping (DW>FW)

v       Building a simple page

v       Browser previewing

21) Integrating with Flash CS3

v       Quick Export

v       Round tripping (DW>FW)

v       Drag and Drop

22) I'm outta here