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Macromedia Training Overview
In this course, you'll use Macromedia Fireworks to create vector graphics, edit bitmap graphics, optimize images, and create and assign rollover effects for the Web.
Target Student:
This course is designed primarily for new or prospective Web designers who want to create, modify, and optimize graphics for use on Web sites using Macromedia Fireworks.
Prerequisites
To ensure your success, you must have a basic understanding of your computer's operating system. For example, you should know how to launch an application, create and save files, and copy files from CDs and other media.
Delivery Method:
Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities
Benefits:
After completing this course, students will be able to create, modify, and optimize graphics for use on Web sites. Students will be able to create graphics that include rollovers, text, hotspots, and other visual effects.
What's Next:
After completing this course, students can learn more by taking the Macromedia Fireworks MX: Level 2 course.
Hardware/Software Requirements
You will need
- 300MHz Intel Pentium II Processor.
- Windows 98 SE, Windows Me, Windows NT® 4 (Service Pack 6), Windows 2000 or Windows XP.
- At least 64 MB of available RAM.
- A color monitor capable of at least 800 x 600, 256 color display.
- At least 80 MB of available hard disk space.
- A CD-ROM drive.
- Adobe Type Manager version 4 or later with Type 1 fonts.
- Macromedia Fireworks MX.
Performance-Based Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Understand the differences between bitmap and vector graphics.
- Use the Info panel to precisely scale objects.
- 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 bitmap (raster) graphics and modify them.
- Create selections within bitmap images using the Lasso, Marquee, and Magic Wand tools.
- Import and modify text objects, and merge them with vector graphics.
- Understand image resolution as it pertains to Web based graphics.
- Show and edit rulers, grids, and guides in order to position items with precision on a Web page.
- 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
Course duration
1 Day
Macromedia Training Course outline
Lesson 1: The Fireworks Environment
- Topic 1A: An Overview of Fireworks
- Topic 1B: Vector and Bitmap Graphics
- Topic 1C: Fireworks Environment Elements
- Topic 1D: Navigating in Fireworks
Lesson 2: Creating Vector Graphics
- Topic 2A: Vector Drawing Tools
- Topic 2B: Drawing Basic Shapes
- Topic 2C: Modifying Vector Graphics
Lesson 3: Transforming Vector Images and Effects
- Topic 3A: Combining Shapes
- Topic 3B: Applying Effects
Lesson 4: Bitmap Images
- Topic 4A: Bitmap Basics
- Topic 4B: Editing Bitmap Images
- Topic 4C: Effects with Bitmap Images
Lesson 5: Using Text
- Topic 5A: Creating Text
- Topic 5B: Merging Text and Graphics
Lesson 6: Optimizing Graphics for the Web
- Topic 6A: Web Graphic File Formats
- Topic 6B: Optimizing Images
Lesson 7: Hotspot Links
- Topic 7A: Creating Hotspots
- Topic 7B: Assigning Links to Hotspots
Lesson 8: Slicing and Rollovers
- Topic 8A: Slicing
- Topic 8B: Rollovers
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