Lynda - Fireworks CS6 Essential Training

Join Ray Villalobos in this course, Fireworks CS6 Essential Training, as he shows how to create custom web graphics and web site mockups with Adobe Fireworks CS6. The initial chapters explain the basics: how to get around in the interface and create and organize documents. The course proceeds to cover all the essential drawing features in Fireworks, from drawing simple lines and shapes to applying fills, strokes, and opacity values to objects. The course also covers how to move, scale, and otherwise
transform text and images as well as create symbols, use sprites, and integrate CSS and jQuery Mobile.

Topics include:

* Working with the menus, panels, and object properties
* Saving and exporting files
* Optimizing graphics
* Applying opacity, blending modes, and live filters to drawing objects
* Drawing vector shapes
* Masking objects
* Animating with states
* Using the 9-slice scaling tool
* Creating symbols and symbols for sprites
* Using batch commands
* Creating jQuery Mobile templates