| Keeping pace with Macromedia's aggressive software development schedule, Peachpit Press has published Fireworks 3 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide less than a year after its highly regarded and bestselling Fireworks 2 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide. Fireworks 3 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide (ISBN 0-201-70452-8; $18.99) is the latest addition to Peachpit's popular Visual QuickStart series, known for its practical and concise step-by-step coverage of all the important functions of an application.
The book successfully applies this approach to Fireworks, an application that lets users create editable Web graphics, animations, and page comps and that automatically generates the HTML and JavaScript coding required for distributing the final files over the Internet or other network.
In Fireworks 3 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide, author Sandee Cohen focuses her wide experience in graphic arts production and training on making new users comfortable with the program's interface and tools. Beginners and intermediate users alike will learn how best to prepare Web graphics, thanks to easy-to-follow chapters that use illustrations as much as text to clearly explain FireworksÕs features. Like the other books in the Visual QuickStart series, Fireworks 3 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide is designed so readers can quickly find what they need without wading through a lot of text.
The topics covered in this book include:
- Creating and modifying graphics and text effects
- Importing artwork from other applications
- Animations: creation, import, and export
- Using effects and filters to add interest to Web pages.
- Building interactive interfaces: buttons, nav bars, rollovers, hotspots, and links
- Optimizing color and compressing artwork for the Internet
- Automating the workflow for Web page production and maintenance
- Exporting HTML, Flash, and bitmap files for the Web or print
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