This command allows you to refresh the canvas of Adobe Fireworks.

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Ale Munoz created a collection of 62 commands called Orange Commands for Fireworks CS3 and CS4 to help him in his job as a web designer. A huge time saver and a must have.

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Here are 2 jsf Fireworks commands to crop a square from a rectangle. You can use them for batch processing.

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Thomas Burleson’s command creates a reflect effect in one click.

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The Interpolation panel gives you a quick access to interpolation options located in Fireworks Preferences.

With the interpolation command you can switch from an option to another one very rapidly without having to go to the Preferences. A huge time saver!

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The Evenly Space option in the Align panel was introduced in Adobe Fireworks CS4. See how it works.

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Shigenori Tanaka’s Campus Tools allows to modify the canvas setting “live” with the following features:

• Set new canvas and resize
• Modify canvas background color
• Modify canvas resolution
• Modify canvas size to A4

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Nathan Pitman’s Fireworks command allows you to Duplicate, Offset & Rotate the selected object(s) in a choice of directions. Read more..

Very handy command which should ship with Fireworks.

Auto Save will save your work automatically. Set the time of Auto Save from 01 (for 1 minute) to several hours. Then enable the Auto Save and Auto Save will regularly update the original PNG file. Definitely a must-have. Download.

Another auto save command, called Autobackup, is available as an AIR application. Download.

The Fireworks CS4 path panel (2) is a comprehensive description with illustrations and videos of over 50 vector and path tools that constitutes the Path panel. A Glossary helps you find a command and its definition.

Check out this in-depth article and describe us your experience with the different commands and express your comments to improve them.

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The new path panel in Fireworks CS4 has been updated and now consists of over 50 vector and path tools to create quality designs.

But due to poor documentation, even in the online Help, I feel that these new tools do not have the exposure they deserve and that they are not used as efficiently as they could be. There are some good articles to explain various bits of it, but there’s no comprehensive documentation like there really should be.

This article is an answer to fill the gap. In this first part, we will see the 9 commands of Combine Paths. Each command is commented separately and illustrated with examples.

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The blend paths command was launched with Fireworks CS3 and it is not the equivalent of Illustrator’s blend path: the blending of colours is less apparent, it is more a shape tweening instead. This command can create abstract effects but it is also a first step in the 3D since you can create wireframe objects. Read more.

In Fireworks CS4, Demo Current Document is a new command which enables you to generate rapidly a presentation of your mockup as a slideshow. Read more.

In the new Fireworks CS4, Take screenshot command is a universal tool for screen capturing. It enables you to take screenshots not only from Fireworks but of any other applications opened. Read more.

As the information structure is getting more complex in Fireworks with documents containing multiple pages, we get now a 4-level structure: one document can include several pages which at their turn have their own layers and frames.

As a result, the problem is how to relate those elements and DistriFusion Pro might be an answer.

DistriFusion Pro is an innovative command to help you organize your objects between Documents and Pages. It is a bridge between Document(s) and Page(s) enabling you to freely transfer objects: document-to-document ; document-to-page or page-to-page.

Download freely the DistriFusion Pro’s Manual to learn more and to see if it is meant for you.

This old Kleanthis command is still the best to duplicate a mirror-image clone in 4 directions with vector points on top of each other. Read and download.

DistriFusion Pro is an innovative Fireworks command to help you transfer objects between Layers and Pages thanks to 2 main features allowing you to distribute and to combine objects. DistriFusion Pro can be used with Fireworks CS3 and higher.

Download DistriFusion Pro instruction manual to see in detail all the combinations.

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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In my previous post I claimed that it was not possible to extract a Pattern from a PNG. Well that is no longer true since Trevor McCauley has created a new command called Save Patterns to solve that problem.

Extracting a Texture seems more complex but who knows? Read and download.

Star Auto Shape is certainly the most versatile of all Fireworks (Window > Auto Shapes) Auto Shapes capable of creating trendy badges, stars, flowers, sparkles, etc. with 5 control points. Read more.