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Winners of the Fireworks Tutorial Contest

Fireworkszone — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:16:00 +0000

The first Fireworks tutorial Contest of Fireworks history has taken place and Fireworks Zone is proud to announce the Winners:

1st : Siam Jai for his Custom Watermark Command tutorial
2nd : Ryan Smith for his superb Human Iris tutorial
3rd: Angelo Sabal for his Text Cut Effect tutorial

Read all the results and scores

One Dollar Coin Tutorial

Fireworkszone — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:40:08 +0000

This new Fireworks tutorials enables you to create a simple one dollar coin using the punching technique, gradients and filters.

Check out the method for creating without filters a clean pixel bevel text that everyone knows and loves. Read tutorial.

Alan Musselman on Flickr

Fireworkszone — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:18:50 +0000

Alan Musselman is on Flickr and a you will able to see his office in San Jose (San Francisco).

Another picture during the TODCON 2007

Transparent Text

Fireworkszone — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 18:19:51 +0000

Here is a simple but very effective text effect which can be used to add a watermark to your artworks. See how to create a Custom Watermark Command.

Read Transparent Text tutorial.

Fireworks Tutorial Contest

Fireworkszone — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:17:47 +0000

Submissions are now closed. Check out all the 8 entries!

A list of judges has been established:

Aaron Beall
Stéphane Bergeron
Alexandar Bliznakov
Jim Babbage
Matt Stow
Derren Whiteman
Cheam

Voting will take place very soon.

Human Iris

Fireworkszone — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:41:07 +0000

Last entry in the Fireworks Tutorial Contest, a realistic human iris with the pupil and the cornea is reproduced by using a host of Fireworks filters and the superposed layers technique. See tutorial.

With 8 entries in total, the next steps in the Fireworks Tutorial Contest are now to select the jugdes, define precisely the criteria to be used and then to select the winners by April, one month’s behind schedule.

Add Glitter

Fireworkszone — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:45:15 +0000

Another entry which is an animation. The tutorila shows how to glitter an image or a text by using the Noise effect and how to create an animated GIF. Read more.

3D dots

Fireworkszone — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:11:49 +0000

5th entry of the Fireworks Tutorial Contest which demonstrates a simple but powerful effect. Read more.

Cloning People

Fireworkszone — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 19:36:53 +0000

Scientifics started cloning sheeps or mice but here with Fireworks we can clone people with a Lasso. Read more.

Custom Watermark Command

Fireworkszone — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:29:20 +0000

The 4th entry in the Fireworks Tutorial Contest is showing how to create a custom command from the history panel.

Very handy for those who have to reduce the size and apply a watermark to scores of images. Read more.