Adobe Fireworks CS4 short course

Section A: Introduction
· Welcome to Fireworks
· Fireworks Start Page
· Interface Overview
· Toolbox
· Property Inspector
· Panels
· Customizing Fireworks Interface
· Opening Documents
· Rulers/Guides/Grids

Section B: Fills
· Working with Fills
· Solid Fill
· Subselection Tool
· Gradient Fill
· Pattern Fill
· Texture Fill
· Color Fill Live Filter
· Fill Edges

Section C: Strokes
· Line Tool
· Line Properties
· Pen Tool
· Curved Lines
· Converting Lines
· Freeform Tool
· Vector Path Tool
· Redraw Path Tool
· Removing Strokes

Section D: Text
· Creating Text
· Formatting Text
· Importing Photoshop Text
· Photoshop Import Options
· Attach Text In Path
· Importing Word Documents
· Attach In Path Command

Section E: Layers
· Creating Layers
· Layer Properties
· Duplicating Layers
· Duplicating Objects
· Deleting Layers
· Organizing Layers
· Exporting Layers
· Web Layers

Section F: Symbols
· Convert to Symbol
· Create Common Library Symbol
· Sharing Symbols
· Editing Symbols
· Button Symbols
· Scaling Button Symbols
· Creating Rollovers
· Defining Active Area
· Create Navigation Bar
· Animation Symbols
· Customizing State Animation
· Component Symbols
· Editing and Updating Symbols

Section A: Bitmap Graphics
· Understanding Bitmaps
· Marquee Tool
· Oval Marquee Tool
· Lasso and Polygon Tools
· Magic Wand Tool
· Pencil Tool
· Brush Tool
· Eraser Tool
· Red Eye Removal Tools
· Photoshop Integration
· Photoshop Live Effects

Section B: Productivity Using Prototypes
· Creating a Mock-Up
· Setting a Page Tag Line
· Creating a Navigation Bar
· Setting a Master Page
· Creating Pages
· Sharing Layer Pages
· Creating CSS-Based Layouts

Section C: Optimizing Images
· Understanding Size and Quality
· GIF
· Using GIFs
· Optimizing GIFs
· JPEG
· Optimizing JPEGs
· Quality Based Optimization
· Selective JPEG Compression
· PNG
· PNG 8
· PNG 32
· PNG 24

Section E: Image Slicing
· Rectangle Slices
· Slicing and Optimizing Guides
· Gradient Slices
· Polygon Slices
· HTML Slices
· Slice Properties
· Image Optimization with Slices

Section F: Exporting
· Export Options
· Exporting Images
· Exporting HTML
· HTML Table and Naming Options
· Other HTML Save Options
· Preview HTML Export
· Exporting CSS
· Exporting for Flash
· Exporting PDFs
· Preparing PDF Links
· PDF Export Options