Beginners Macromedia Fireworks Course In Birmingham and Midlands
Preparing images and designing web graphics for websites
with Macromedia Fireworks.
This Macromedia Fireworks course is designed to give you an understanding of the tools and basic image editing and design techniques and the skills for optimising images and creating web graphics with with Macromedia Fireworks.
This Macromedia Fireworks course for beginners is available onsite in Birmingham and Midlands areas including Solihull, Bromsgrove, Redditch and Worcester, and for one or two people at our premises Cofton Hackett (South Birmingham). A similar Macromedia Fireworks course may be available around the UK with other trainers.
Custom one to one or small group Macromedia Fireworks training.
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Macromedia Fireworks beginners course - summary
Course duration: 1 day course
Level: beginners / intermediate
Software: Macromedia Fireworks 4, Fireworks
MX, Fireworks MX2004, Fireworks 8.
Numbers: One to one or small groups of up
to 4
Trainees in a group should have the same skill level and the same requirements.
Macromedia Fireworks beginners course
Image Editing & Web Graphic basics - 1 day course outline
Introduction to the tools and features of Fireworks
Using the tools and setting tool options
Using floating palettes including Colour, Fill, Stroke, Layers and Frames
Layers - working with layers, organising, naming, deleting and modifying
layers
Working with bitmap images and photographs
Cropping images to remove unwanted areas
Adjusting image brightness / contrast and colour balance of an image
Resizing an image using the image size command, and keeping images sharp
when resizing
Changing the colours in an image
Working with vector art and text
Creating basic shapes and choosing colours for fill and stroke (outline)
Working with text, setting text size and style, and choosing colours
Applying drop shadow and emboss effects to a selected object or text
Preparing Graphics For Web Sites
Designing web page buttons and other simple artwork for web sites
Creating artistic text headings for web pages
Using effects such as drop shadow and emboss on text and buttons
Methods for keeping down file sizes when designing
Animation
The basics of animation and creating a simple banner ad
Optimisation and exporting images and graphics
Optimising images and graphics
- getting file sizes as small as possible while maintaining
image quality
Exporting files in the correct format and with the correct optimisation
settings
Different file formats - JPG & GIF files - the differences and which
one you should use
Specifying the number of colours in a GIF file, and the relationship between
colour depth and file size
Creating areas of transparency
File naming & checking file sizes
Placing your Images on the web page *
Adding images to the web page
Setting alt tags
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See Also:
Dreamweaver and Web Design Introduction
- Web Design, Web Graphics & HTML
Preparing and Designing Images for Web Sites
with Adobe Photoshop