Course ID: 200026

Enhancing Web Imagery: an Introduction to Fireworks

Macromedia Fireworks is a graphics package with a difference! Designed especially for working with graphics going to the Web, Fireworks includes a variety of features for creating special effects and low bandwidth images for your Web site. This course uses Macromedia Fireworks to create vector graphics, edit bitmap graphics, optimize images, and create and assign rollover effects for the web. During this course, students will use Fireworks to:

• understand the differences between bitmap and vector graphics
• use Fireworks to create and manipulate complex vector graphics and apply effects, textures and patterns
• understand the gif, jpeg and png file formats to choose the right one for each kind of image
• import and modify text objects and merge them with vector graphics
• understand image resolution as it pertains to web-based graphics
• create hotspots to which you will assign links, alt text and link targets
• slice complex images into sections and use the Optimize panel and Fireworks' Preview modes to optimize the images individually
• create simple and customized rollover and disjoint rollover effects using effects, patterns and textures
• export a multi-frame Fireworks file with rollover effects as an HTML document

*This is a fast-paced course where participants must be comfortable with HTML

Includes:

30 days email support
course manual
90 days access to online course after class

Additional Options:

use your Macintosh