Angelo Sabal AKA Blue2x is proposing a tutorial, a PNG and a tip that help you change the look of Mozilla Firefox.

1. Extravagant – Personas Theme
2. Deathbringer
3. Photomanipulation Tutorial – Making Objects Stand Out

It will be 12 April 2010 for the launch ANNOUNCEMENT – they will then give the date then when the product will actually be available. Same happened for CS4.

Take your first look of CS5 on Monday, 12 April, 8 am PDT (Pacific Daylight Time) or 5 pm Paris time. Located in another zone

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check the Fireworks PNG of the Week – Terran Interface in blue2x.

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Ultraweaver from Joey Durham has been revamped as well was his Geekforum . Welcome back Joey.

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With the latest Angelo’s tutorial, you will learn how to create your own Gaming Clan Logo in Adobe Fireworks for your website.

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Financial sources expect Adobe CS5 to ship in April 2010.

If it is true, that means that from September 2009 on , Fireworks Team has still 8 months to run to fix bags of bugs and add the new features for CS5. Time is running out …

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Christian Robertson from Idle Mode is advocating Fireworks as the best tool for screen design and inviting webdesigners to stay away from Photoshop because of its complexity and because it has been designed for photos.

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A great collection from Smashing Magazine of Fireworks links, tutorials, articles, videos you can find on the web.

Fireworks, with no doubts, is gaining popularity since in April a best of was already released:

Adobe Fireworks Tutorials and Downloads – Best of

Check Fireworks Zone to find even more resources on Adobe Fireworks.

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Jeff Rothe demonstrates in his article: Save time exporting web images using Fireworks that slicing in Fireworks can cut your time in half when Photoshop and Fireworks are compared.

With Fireworks coming with the Creative Suite packages you have no excuse you don’t start using Fireworks.

Angelo Sabal is giving away 12 professional logos created with Adobe Fireworks.

Now, if you want a professional logo designer you know where to find him. http://blog.blue2x.com/

Over 46 Free Fireworks RSS Buttons to download offered by Angelo Sabal. Read more ..

Going back in Fireworks history, it seems that Fireworks 1 was launched around April, 1998 and today we are a few months late but we can celebrate a decade of Fireworks.

You can add more details to the Fireworks version table http://www.fireworkszone.com/fireworks-10th-anniversary_118.html where you can view all the Fireworks versions from Fireworks 1 to Fireworks CS4.

Fireworks 10th Anniversary coincides with my birthday on 20th September (I am a bit older than 10)

On this occasion, Adobe, is offering 3 Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium for Macintosh only (Sorry for the Windows people).

Please contact me to receive one of these boxes and don’t forget to add your postal address.

30 Tutorials That Will Teach You Fireworks is a collection of tuts with tol learn something new. I would like to mention that you will find a couple of Fireworks Zone’s tutorials. Read more.

Specky boy has compiled an extensive list of over 100 Fireworks extensions to show that Fireworks has also a great numbers of plug-ins as in Photoshop. Thanks for taking the time to put this list together.

In total, I would say, that you can find over 200 Fireworks extensions on the web. Go to Fireworks Zone Extensions section to find more extensions.

Adobe TV was introduced beginning of April 2008, read press release. Adobe TV is designed to educate, inspire, and entertain the creative community, it is immediately available online from the Adobe Web site at http://tv.adobe.com , or as a network with multiple shows in the new Adobe® Media Player 1.0 software.

In Adobe TV you can learn from the pros by watching videos and following along. It’s not quite as structured and comprehensive as Lynda, but it’s free. This a perfect site to visit between projects and refresh your knowledge and your skills.

As a special feature you can embed the videos in 3 sizes in your website and a link page is provided.

Related videos:

• Exploring the Developer Center with Alan Musselman
• The Cooper case with Nick Myers
• Rapid Prototyping with Danielle Beaumont
• Disc Glolf with Alan Musselman

Fireworks CS4 Public Beta announced

Please Alan cut your beard!

Digital Web Magazine posted an enlightening article where they gathered a team of 8 great designers, fans of both Photoshop and Fireworks, comparing and weighing pros and cons of Photoshop and Fireworks.

Each designer is giving his point of view and tips from their hand-on experience as designer, UI designer, etc. But the most striking is that Fireworks supporters are growing but at the end of day all depends how well you feel confortable with your app. Read More

Happy 4th of July everyone from Fireworks Zone. Even if I am not American (but French) I wish to celebrate with Americans online Indepence Day.

As you know the French entered the war in 1778, and assisted in the victory of the Americans seeking independence from Britain.

God Bless America

After launching NETTUTS and PSDTUTS (the magic crystal ball is breathtaking!) specialized in Photoshop tutorials, Flikr group is now launching Vectortuts which focuses on high quality vector tutorials (Fireworks, Illustrator, CorelDRAW, etc.).

This site looks promising and although is brand new Fireworks tutorials are already available.

They are looking for great vector tutorial writers, both regular and one off contributers, and article writers as well paid US$150 per tutorial.

Check out this article by Jim Babbage on the Fireworks Developer Center that teaches you how to use the new Acrobat PDF export feature!

• http://www.adobe.com/devnet/fireworks/articles/interactive_pdf.html

Read Aaron Beall’s introduction of Fireworks CS4’s new features in Edge of June:

• Get the scoop on the next release of Adobe Fireworks

In order to learn and test what’s new in Fireworks CS4 beta, check all the free resources available:

1. Jim Babbage video tutorials: Linda.com
2. Fireworks CS4 Beta – New Paths Panel in Fireworks CS4
3. Fireworks CS4 Beta – Fireworks Gets a Facelift!
4. Fireworks CS4 Beta – Productivity Features
5. Fireworks CS4 Beta – Wrapping Text Inside a Path
6. Nick Crossland’s favorite Fireworks CS4 New features
7. Matthew Keefe’s Fireworks CS4 Learning Center
8. Adobe Labs exhaustive list of the new features

You can still download Fireworks CS4 public beta on Adobe Labs