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Sep 09 12: Using the Color Picker in Adobe Fireworks; 3:01 pm Thierry Lorey Fireworks, Fireworks Tips, video tutorials ,bucket tool, color picker, Fill Color panel, tool box

Learn how to use the Color Picker inside and outside Adobe Fireworks interface.

This is my first Camtasia video with audio.

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Jun 09 30: Default Swatches in Adobe Fireworks; 6:30 pm Thierry Lorey Fireworks Tips, Fireworks Tutorials ,color, Fireworks, fireworks tutorial, graphics, swatches, web development, webdesign

Still looking for the default swatches in Adobe Fireworks?

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Jun 09 13: Closing Adobe Fireworks; 2:19 pm Thierry Lorey Fireworks Tips ,close Fireworks, icon menu, windows menu

How many ways can you close Adobe Fireworks?

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Jun 09 9: Component Symbols Tips in Adobe Fireworks; 6:25 pm Thierry Lorey Fireworks, Fireworks Tips ,component symbols, rich symbols

This post covers 2 important tips when you create a Component Symbol (formerly Rich Symbol) in Adobe Fireworks : name the graphics elements and do not group the graphic elements. Read more >>

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Mar 09 26: Fill a marquee with color; 7:55 pm Thierry Lorey Fireworks Tips ,marquee tool

This tip will show you how to fill a Marquee selection with color. Read more ..

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Mar 09 8: Scale proportionally; 9:00 pm Thierry Lorey Fireworks, Fireworks Tips ,scale tool

This tip will show you how to scale the size proportionally using Scale Tool and Numeric Transform Command. Read more..

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Feb 09 16: “Delete Objects When Cropping” option; 5:12 pm Thierry Lorey Fireworks, Fireworks Tips, video tutorials ,crop tool, cropping, preferences, resizing

Learn more about Delete Objects When Cropping preference which modifies your cropping and resizing experience.

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Aug 08 19: Masking; 7:10 pm Fireworkszone Fireworks Tips ,mask, maskee, masker, vector

Masking A brief but concise definition of the masking technique valid for all graphics app. Read more.

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Aug 08 13: From ellipse to circle; 10:23 pm Fireworkszone Fireworks Tips ,circle, ellipse

Ellipse Here are 2 basic tips to get a perfect circle out of an ellipse and to get a circle from the center.

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Aug 08 1: From Firefox to Fireworks; 12:32 pm Fireworkszone Fireworks Tips ,Firefox 3, fireworks

Firefox 3 Drag and Drop With the new Drag and Drop feature in Firefox 3 you can drag images from webpages to Fireworks which is a great time saver. This is the first time Firefox has an impact on Fireworks. Read more.

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Jun 08 13: Style from Pattern; 7:45 pm Fireworkszone Fireworks Tips ,bug, patterns, styles, workaround

Styles from Patterns Never tried to create a style out of a pattern? See how, the advantage and the downside.

Check from Pattern to Style

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Mar 08 27: Can you extract a Texture or Pattern from a PNG?; 5:41 pm Fireworkszone Fireworks Tips

I had to deal with this problem many times and I was curious to know so I asked Adobe. When you receive a PNG with a texture or pattern which is not in your texture/pattern folder you still can see it although the texture/pattern is not on your hard disk. Appearance is maintained as for the fonts. continue reading

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Jan 08 15: Zoom Tool; 12:14 pm Fireworkszone Fireworks Tips

Although the Zoom tool is the most frequently used tool in Fireworks it is far from being at your fingertips and definitely at the wrong place down at the bottom of the Tools panel forcing you to go up and down all the time and causing sore wrist.

On the other hand, developers have created a lot of workarounds to correct that issue to select, deselect, zoom in and out more rapidly. Read more

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Dec 07 5: Font Selection; 10:47 am Fireworkszone Fireworks Commands, Fireworks Tips

This is probably an issue that is affecting all Fireworks users and we all find the last 6-font selection being at the top of the recent font list to be annoying.

A Fireworks command can fix that. Read More.

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Dec 07 4: Wireframe vs Picture Border; 3:11 pm Fireworkszone Fireworks Commands, Fireworks Tips

Picture Border Among all Fireworks extensions 2 of them are dedicated to creating a border around a picture. A few years ago, Wireframe was released with a major drawback: the frame is applied not to the picture on the canvas but to the canvas itself so before applying a border you need to click on the Fit Canvas button. continue reading

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Dec 07 3: Share layers across frames on the Master Page; 4:05 pm Fireworkszone Articles, Fireworks Tips

Share layers across frames In Adobe’s Help Documentation (F1), you can read about Master page :

« A Master Page cannot have shared layers … » Which proved wrong. This is good news for those who are using Pages and Master Page feature frequently. Read more.

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Nov 07 26: Textures, Patterns and Styles; 10:50 pm Fireworkszone Fireworks Tips

Textures Patterns and Styles This short article will define briefly the relationship between 3 Fireworks extensions: Textures, Patterns and Styles.

In Adobe Fireworks, you can drop the pattern images (from the Patterns folder) in the Textures folder or drop the texture images (from the Textures folder) in the Patterns folder. continue reading

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Oct 07 31: Using Textures As Styles; 9:59 am Fireworkszone Fireworks Tips

Using background textures as styles in Fireworks is more convenient and easy than going to the traditional way: go to Property Inspector’s Texture Name option list, navigate through the endless list and select the texture you want to use.