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Refining Your Design In Adobe Fireworks

From Benjamin De Cock
May 7th, 2012
85 Comments

While certainly not as well known as Photoshop, Adobe Fireworks is a great tool for creating user interfaces, website designs and mock-ups, wireframes, icons and much more. However, most designers who have been using Photoshop for years may find Fireworks a bit awkward at first. Fireworks does have a slightly different ...

Extracting Logos Using Levels In Adobe Fireworks

From Jose Olarte
January 20th, 2012
45 Comments

In all the years that I’ve been using Adobe Fireworks, I have always had to perform one task in every project: remove the background from a logo. Most of the time, it’s because the client doesn’t have the original raw file that their previous designer used to create their company’s ...

The Power of Adobe Fireworks: What Can You Achieve With It?

From Michel Bozgounov
September 17th, 2010
229 Comments

Our recent article covering the new features of Adobe Fireworks CS5 provoked a very interesting and intense debate. But because comments ranged from “Fireworks is the best tool for screen design!” to “What exactly is Fireworks?”, we thought that another article on this topic might be very useful to Smashing ...

Adobe Fireworks: Is It Worth Switching to CS5?

From Michel Bozgounov
May 22nd, 2010
221 Comments

Adobe Fireworks is the Swiss Army knife for many developers and Web, UX, UI and graphic designers. The application is known for its versatility, excellent blend of vector and bitmap tools and powerful built-in wireframing and prototyping options. Also, according to the SoDA 2010 Digital Marketing Outlook survey, Fireworks has ...

The Ultimate Round-Up of Fireworks Tutorials and Resources

From Paul Andrew
July 27th, 2009
91 Comments

Fireworks was originally created as an image editing and web design application by Macromedia, for quick web mock-ups, and optimizing images for the Web. It has since been transformed into a powerful environment for designing and prototyping applications that integrates easily with Dreamweaver, Flash and Photoshop &ndash making it, perhaps, ...

Adobe Fireworks Tutorials and Downloads – Best of

From Sean Hodge
March 18th, 2008
127 Comments

Adobe Fireworks is the industry leader for prototyping and rapid site building. Some of you may not be aware of this, as you may be using Photoshop for each phase of web-site production. The articles, tutorials, and resources gathered here will convince you of the power of this application. For rapid ...