Adobe Fireworks CS5 Classroom in a Book, Safari

This Adobe-authorized, self-paced guide to Adobe Fireworks CS5 is ideal for beginning users who want to learn key Fireworks concepts and techniques, while readers who already have some experience with Fireworks can use this book to learn Fireworks CS5's more advanced features and newest tools. Using step-by-step, project-based lessons, each chapter walks readers through the creation of a specific project, with successive chapters building on the reader's growing knowledge of the program. With Fireworks CS5, users can collaborate with other Adobe Creative Suite applications to design and mock up basic Web pages or interfaces for rich Internet applications. Demo a design live for a client, or export the design as an interactive PDF and email it to them. Fireworks sports a new user interface, shared in common with other applications in Creative Suite 5. Export complete Web page designs as web standards-compliant CSS-based layouts, or as PDF.

Getting Started

Lesson 1. Getting to Know the Workspace

Lesson 2. The Pages, States and Layers Panels — Fundamental workflow tools

Lesson 3. Working with Bitmap Images

Lesson 4. Working with Selections

Lesson 5. Working with Vector objects

Lesson 6. Masking

Lesson 7. Working with Text

Lesson 8. Optimizing for the Web

Lesson 9. Using Symbols

Lesson 10. Prototyping Basics

Lesson 11. Advanced Prototyping

Lesson 12. Improving your workflow

Lesson 13.  Going Further