However, this time the article will not focus so much on the tool itself, but rather on what can be achieved with it, and more specifically - what can be achieved with its visual/graphic design capabilities.
Web Designers need bitmap graphics from time to time to take a design from ordinary to extraordinary level. So today, I decided to share an excellent collection of free Photoshop Graphics for web designers.
These graphics will help you with color scheme techniques, making navigation bars, creating photo galleries and many other kinds of web design elements.
Fireworks Zone is the main resource for Adobe Fireworks enthusiasts with tutorials, articles, linkbase, commands, styles, textures, patterns, auto shapes. It is by far the largest and regularly updated Fireworks sites on the web.
Today's quick freebie is a set of simple circular shaped progress bars or preloaders. If you're going to make your visitors wait for content, might as well give them something pretty to look at. The download includes the PSD for both styles; the solid progress bar and the segmented alternative.
Refer to the tutorials and videos on this page to get started with Fireworks CS5. Some tutorials require Fireworks CS5, although some apply still to Fireworks CS4.
Adobe® Fireworks® CS5 software provides the tools you need to create expressive, highly optimized graphics for the web or virtually any device — from smartphones to kiosks to embedded displays.
These Adobe Fireworks extensions are mainly productivity tools. They won't help you make better-looking pictures; rather, they'll help you use Fireworks more efficiently.
And if you're an extension developer yourself, some of them will help you build your own commands and Flash panels. Download them all for free!
This tutorial takes a look at using Fireworks to create a feathered, bitmap masking effect using the bitmap selection tools and Layer Masking.
For anyone working as an elearning designer, Fireworks is one of the best tools for rapidly creating elearning storyboards. In the final part of our lesson, we'll take our masked silhouette and create a storyboard for an elearning course on Fireworks.
On the Fireworks Lab you can download free resource files for Adobe Fireworks. All files are layered PNG's which can be opened and edited with Adobe Fireworks CS4+.
The resources you can download here are free and you can use them where ever you want (personal and commercial projects).