Perhaps you have seen this design style on some posters where there’s an image superimposed inside a text and you also want to do that in your project. Doing it in Adobe Fireworks is very easy. Here’s how (I’m using Fireworks CS3 by the way): 1. First choose your font. A wide font or a [...]
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One time I was asked to create a flowchart diagram. I don’t have Visio which would make things a whole lot easier. I thought about doing it in Adobe Fireworks because it’s easy to create all sorts of boxes and move them around as compared to doing it in Photoshop. The problem with Fireworks is [...]
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Sunbursts is a nice effect as a background for your vector work. It will make your project look lively compared to with having only solid or gradient backgrounds. Here’s an easy way on how to create sunbursts on Fireworks. I will be using Fireworks CS3 here to take advantage of the Shapes feature. Before learning [...]
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The sticker peel-off is a commonly effect used in badges that you’ve probably seen already in some web 2.0 sites. You can use this effect on Twitter or RSS badges, version number of a site or a product… here are some samples to further illustrate. I’m going to show you how to create this simple [...]
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Here is a very simple digital technique on how to soften up your photos similar to what you often see in studio portrait shots. I usually see this in wedding albums where the bride and groom seem to have soft features. This works best on close up portraits especially if you want to make the [...]
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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 [...]
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