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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Fireworks team is planning a new Updater for Fireworks CS4. This Updater will fix the Snow Leopard crash on quit bug, as well as other high priority crash and data loss bugs that we’re aware of.

The Updater is expected to be available later in the second Quarter 2010.

The first Updater can be downloaded from http://www.adobe.com/support/fireworks/downloads_updaters.html

source:
Adobe Fireworks Team

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

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This article is a description of auto-sizing and fixed-width options for the text blocks. Watch the videos.

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A collection of 9 text commands to extend text options you can find in Adobe Fireworks.

The text commands have been created by Trevor McCauley and were first introduced in Fireworks CS3. The commands are undocumented.

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Fireworks should be the design tool of choice for Flash Catalyst because both have a lot of common features and because Fireworks is the undisputed champion of screen graphics.

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This command is intended for both Fireworks CS3 and 4.

In Fireworks CS4, Fireworks auto-converts all imported quotes to smart quotes, no matter if you copy them from Word or Notepad, CS3, Illustrator. The Only way you can insert straight quotes (single or double) in Fireworks CS4 is to copy/paste such quotes from Photoshop.

On the other hand, in Fireworks CS3 the only way to get smart quotes is to import them from another application.

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My friend Angelo Sabal offers a set of 9 nine free logos designed in Adobe Fireworks that you can use for your projects.

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In this article, renew your love for Adobe Fireworks! Check out an explosion of resources: 200 (mostly) free Adobe Fireworks resources that are gathered and categorized for easy reference.

A lot of the resources come from Fireworks Zone and it seems that Adobe Fireworks becomes more and more popular.

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A bit of typogragraphy today with straight quotes and smart quotes.

The problem is that since Fireworks CS4 you no longer get straight quotes. What you type are smart quotes and the quotes you want to import are automatically converted into smart quotes. There is a workaround.

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Stunning glass buttons, Vista styled, with a glowing effect.

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Basic Auto Shape that displays copyright information at the bottom of the Fireworks document. Very handy.

With the help of a developer this Auto Shape could be greatly improved.

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Grant Hinkson update of XAML panel was released on 07/13/2009 and has the following added features:

• CS4 Skinning
• Customizable path precision trimming (i.e. trim to three decimal places)
• Optional layout rounding (Margins, Padding, Height, Width all rounded to integer values)
• Support for Symbols (Rendered as ContentControl Styles)

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Matthew Inman is a designer and illustrator who is popular amongst internet geeks and dinosaurs. His work can be found on his website, The Oatmeal.

Extract of his interview concerning Adobe Fireworks:

“I use Adobe Fireworks to draw the comics. It’s intended for web design, but it’s also a very capable vector editing tool and it works beautifully if your work is going to end up on a website. Transitioning to print from Fireworks can be a pain though, because it wasn’t intended for that.

I don’t use photoshop and I’m actually pretty terrible with it. I have Illustrator and I was using it for a few months, but I ended up going back to Fireworks simply because I’m more comfortable with it and it’s better for creating web content.”

After Jon Hicks, another illustrator who is using Adobe Fireworks for his work …

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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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In this tutorial I will show you how to create Vista styled buttons with rounded corners using Adobe Fireworks.

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A very good article making comparison between Photoshop and Fireworks but this one goes into specifics and gives more details. It shows what is similar and what is different between the two.

People should follow this principle: you should use the right tool for the right job and Photoshop is not the right tool for webdesign, Fireworks is.

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Here is a list of 5 complete sets of components to help UI designers to create mobile phones (for iPhones or Android OS including T-Mobile phones ) prototypes or mockups.

Most of the components are vectors and you can download them for free in one place.

• Android 1
• Android 2
• iPhone Mockup Toolkit
• iPhone GUI
• Yahoo Developer Network Kit

And the winners of the Wallpaper Contest 2009 are:

#1 First place: Lucian Dragomir,
#2 Second place: Angelo F. Sabal,
#3 Third place: Zsolt Szekely .

Check all the contestants.

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