Adobe Fireworks CS3

Fireworks is a Web graphics program designed to have all the tools Web professionals need to create everything from simple graphical buttons to sophisticated rollover effects.  It can readily import, edit, and integrate all major graphics formats, including vector (drawing) and bitmap (photographic) images.  Fireworks can also easily export images to Dreamweaver, Flash, as well as third-party applications. 

Since the sole focus of Fireworks is Web graphics, and it intentionally does not support developing images for print, it's a more streamlined application and relies less on print metaphors than programs such as the Adobe Photoshop / ImageReady combination.

This workshop will introduce Fireworks to the first-time or casual user.  After learning some of the basics of   "vector" and "bitmap" graphics, we'll learn how to work with paths, shapes, strokes, and fills (all of which fall under the "vector graphics" category).  You'll further learn how to combine shapes, work with layers and stacking order, as well as scaling, skewing, distorting, and cutting vector graphics, and even applying "effects" such as "glows" or drop shadows.  We'll then move to working with bitmap images (such as photographs):  importing, enlarging, and cropping images, in addition to manipulating selections, painting, and applying special effects to bitmap images. 

Fireworks also supports adding text to your graphics, and you'll learn how to apply effects to text, combine text with vectors, and convert text to "paths" for even more design flexibility.

As we move into Web-specific techniques, you'll lean how to select an image format (gif vs. jpeg) and "optimize" the image for the best balance between image quality and size (and thus download time).  You'll also learn how to create "hotspots" (multiple clickable links on a single image).  And last but certainly not least, we'll work with "slicing" an image and creating rollovers (areas of an image that "change" when the mouse rolls over them on a Web page). 

Adobe Fireworks CS3, Level 1
also applicable for users of earlier versions

Prerequisite: Basic knowledge of using your PC (Windows or Mac)
Instructor: Peter Kimble, Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE)
Hours: 7
CEU’s: 0.7
CPDUs: 7 (Illinois teachers are eligible to earn 7 CPDUs for this workshop) 
Fee: $149 (includes expanded "2-day" workbook)

This workshop will be offered again during the Spring 2009 term.

Please contact us via our contact form, or call (217) 333-4161 for more information.

 

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