This Auto Shape allows you to adjust and visualize the angle of live effects on all selected objects, or all objects in the entire document.

Effect Light Source only works for native FW filters that have a directional parameter, including: Drop Shadow, Inner Shadow, Solid Shadow, Motion Blur, Inner Bevel, Inset Emboss, Outer Bevel, and Raised Emboss.

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The first Fireworks tutorial Contest of Fireworks history has taken place and Fireworks Zone is proud to announce the Winners:

• 1st : Siam Jai for his Custom Watermark Command tutorial
• 2nd : Ryan Smith for his superb Human Iris tutorial
• 3rd: Angelo Sabal for his Text Cut Effect tutorial

Read all the results and scores

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This new Fireworks tutorials enables you to create a simple one dollar coin using the punching technique, gradients and filters.

Check out the method for creating without filters a clean pixel bevel text that everyone knows and loves. Read tutorial.

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Alan Musselman is on Flickr and a you will able to see his office in San Jose (San Francisco).

Another picture during the TODCON 2007

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Here is a simple but very effective text effect which can be used to add a watermark to your artworks. See how to create a Custom Watermark Command.

Read Transparent Text tutorial.

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Submissions are now closed. Check out all the 8 entries!

A list of judges has been established:

• Aaron Beall
• Stéphane Bergeron
• Alexandar Bliznakov
• Jim Babbage
• Matt Stow
• Derren Whiteman
• Cheam

Voting will take place very soon.

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Last entry in the Fireworks Tutorial Contest, a realistic human iris with the pupil and the cornea is reproduced by using a host of Fireworks filters and the superposed layers technique. See tutorial.

With 8 entries in total, the next steps in the Fireworks Tutorial Contest are now to select the jugdes, define precisely the criteria to be used and then to select the winners by April, one month’s behind schedule.

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Another entry which is an animation. The tutorila shows how to glitter an image or a text by using the Noise effect and how to create an animated GIF. Read more.

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5th entry of the Fireworks Tutorial Contest which demonstrates a simple but powerful effect. Read more.

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Scientifics started cloning sheeps or mice but here with Fireworks we can clone people with a Lasso. Read more.

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