If you want to put speech bubbles on your image similar to what you see in comics, Adobe Fireworks is a great tool which can accomplish that quite easily.
Fireworks has what they call Auto Shapes (started with MX 2004) that features control points for you to tweak to change various parameters of the shape.
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This is a short tutorial on how to create a glossy text effect style in Fireworks. The technique is a bit different than the “shiny” text effect in a previous tutorial but it’s not that difficult to do.
To give you an idea on what effect we would be doing, here’s a sample:
I got this from [...]
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You gotta love Apple and its inspiring designs. One of which is the style used for the iPhone apps. It is simple yet elegant and can easily blend into web 2.0 sites.
Here’s a quick tutorial on how to create such icons in Fireworks. Just a couple of design guidelines to help you out first:
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Badges are very useful on a design project whether if it’s for print or for web. You can use a badge to indicate something new, a release status (e.g. beta, 1.0) perhaps or anything you can just think of. There are many web 2.0 badge designs out there and this tutorial will teach you how [...]
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You may notice that Web 2.0 logos uses a lot of gradients on their text to create a “shiny” effect.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create something like the image on the right. I got it from G3 Fusion and the author calls the effect “Soft Floating Font” for who knows [...]
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Shiny web 2.0 buttons have been around for quite some time but they still look classy and lots of sites still use them. Here’s an example:
There are lots of Photoshop tutorials out there for this button effect but this guide is made for Fireworks which I think is more suitable for web design. I’m using [...]
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If you don’t know what “Aqua Spheres” are, it’s the shiny sphere with the translucent effect at the bottom popularized by Apple once again. The Aqua effect was first seen on the Mac OS buttons. If you add the effect on a shiny sphere then you’d get Aqua Sphere just like the sphere (without the [...]
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