Learn about the Preview All Pages feature.

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Although an apostrophe is a valid character to name a file when you click on water drops’.png in the startup screen, it does not load and does not give any error message. A single apostrophe is causing the problem.

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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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Still looking for the default swatches in Adobe Fireworks?

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How many ways can you close Adobe Fireworks?

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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 >>

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

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

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

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

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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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.

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

Check from Pattern to Style

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Installation is rapid and management is easy: you can delete those you don’t want to show, you can group your favorites.

Nevertheless, if you want to know everything about Fireworks textures you can read my article in Community MX: All You Should Know About Textures