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Macromedia Training Overview
Macromedia Fireworks MX: Level 2 is a hands-on instruction book that teaches you powerful techniques for creating and editing Web graphics and pages. You will learn advanced skills for working with vector graphics, photographic images and effects, slicing and rollovers, symbols and animation, and exporting to HTML.
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, we recommend you first take the following course or have equivalent knowledge:
- Macromedia Fireworks MX: Level 1
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 and edit paths. Students will create graphic effects such as text wrapping to a path. Students will create image effects, and learn techniques for sharpening images. Students will create complex rollover behaviors, and create animation and buttons using symbols.
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:
- Create and edit vector paths precisely and efficiently using the Pen and Subselection tools.
- Wrap text on a path and convert text to paths.
- Sharpen images and improve their contrast precisely.
- Create image effects such as cloning, masking, and patterns.
- Create and edit complex rollover behaviors, including multi-state navigation bars and drop-down lists.
- Use instances of symbols throughout a Website, and modify the original symbol to update all instances.
- Create animation and buttons using symbols.
- Modify HTML export settings to create files that match the format of the HTML editor application you use.
Course duration
1 Day
Macromedia Training Course outline
Lesson 1: Vector Paths
- Topic 1A: Vector Path Concepts
- Topic 1B: Drawing and Editing Rough Paths
- Topic 1C: Creating Paths Precisely with the Pen Tool
- Topic 1D: Text and Paths
Lesson 2: Image Effects
- Topic 2A: Improving Sharpness and Contrast
- Topic 2B: Editing Images
- Topic 2C: Patterns
- Topic 2D: Masking
- Topic 2E: Saving Effects and Styles
Lesson 3: Advanced Rollovers and Slicing
- Topic 3A: Triggering Rollovers from Polygonal Areas
- Topic 3B: Pop-up Menus
- Topic 3C: Behaviors
- Topic 3D: Navigation Bars
Lesson 4: Symbols, Instances, and Animation
- Topic 4A: Button Symbols
- Topic 4B: Graphic Symbols
- Topic 4C: Creating Animation
Lesson 5: Exporting Pages for a Website
- Topic 5A: Text Slices
- Topic 5B: HTML Export Options
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