All About Adobe Fireworks
Adobe
Fireworks is much like that -- it provides versatile features to create website
mockups, vector art, and interactive prototypes, but its simple interface makes
it quicker and easier than other design software like Adobe Illustrator.
What is Adobe Fireworks?
Adobe
Fireworks is software to help you create mockups of websites and user
interfaces, as well as wireframes and interactive prototypes. You can use
vector and bitmap editing tools, simulate interactivity, and export your mockup
in PDF format. You might also use it to create Rich Internet Applications
(RIAs), or collect design objects like the company logo to be used repeatedly
across projects.
Adobe
Fireworks CS6
Adobe
Fireworks CS6 provides tools for web designers to create mockups or graphics
for web pages. Once you've created a design or prototype in Fireworks, you can
export it as single-page or multi-page PNG file. Additionally, you can further
edit Fireworks code in Dreamweaver, Coda, or another code editor. Fireworks
also offers a variety of extensions.
A Fireworks file can be exported to
JPG, GIF, PNG8, PNG24, PNG32, TIFF, and other graphic formats, making it more
versatile than Photoshop for exporting options. You can also compress a file
for iPad or iPhone.
Basic
features of Adobe Fireworks include:
- The tools to create and edit
bitmap and vector images or objects
- The ability to create web effects
on a web page prototype, including rollovers and pop-up menus
- The option to animate your
graphics
- Pre-built custom templates for
website mobile, desktop, or web frames to get started with your next
design project
- The ability to create an animated
GIF
Why You Should Use Adobe Fireworks
Now
that we've explored basic features of Adobe Fireworks, let's consider six great
ways you can use the software for your own design purposes.
What is Adobe Fireworks used for?
Primarily,
Adobe Fireworks is used to create mockups of web pages. It offers options to
create interactive website prototypes, including tools to include buttons and
navigation bars, and then provides the ability to export the mockup in PDF
format. Additionally, you can use Adobe Fireworks to create and edit vector and
bitmap graphics, and design animated GIFs.
1.
Design Realistic and Interactive Website Mockups
If
you need to show a client how their website will look in-action, Fireworks
provides all the necessary tools. You can create buttons, navigation bars,
master and sub pages, and add text, symbols, and images. If your design team
works in Illustrator or Photoshop, you can import designs from those
applications into Fireworks. Your web pages will be editable in both vector and
bitmap modes. Plus, you can create interactive prototypes to simulate how the
design will interact with a user. When you're ready to show a client, simply
export your Fireworks design as a PDF.
If
you typically use Dreamweaver to create web pages, it's easy to use Fireworks
in conjunction. Dreamweaver has a command for importing Fireworks HTML, so you
can move back and forth between the two to create your ideal web pages or
graphics.
2.
Create Vector Art
Fireworks
offers a comprehensive collection of vector-based objects and shapes, such as
polygons and flow charts, to provide everything you need for most vector
editing tasks. You can easily modify a vector object, and you might find
Fireworks an easier user interface than Illustrator for vector creation.
3.
Use it for Online Designs
Matthew
Inman, an illustrator and designer, prefers to use Fireworks over Illustrator
or Photoshop when designing The Oatmeal's online
comics. If you need to create illustrations or designs for your
website, you might consider checking out Fireworks rather than Photoshop,
especially since Fireworks is a cheaper and sometimes easier alternative.
4.
Create Print Materials or Organize Your Print Layout
As
long as you modify your artwork's resolution in
Fireworks, you can print your designs for posters, flyers, business cards, etc.
It might be a good idea to use Fireworks as your design tool for print
promotional materials, particularly if you want to A/B test your products and
need a cheap and easy method to do so.
If
you need your print materials to be higher quality than Fireworks offers, you
can still create an initial layout in Fireworks to organize your text and
images on the page and experiment with different designs before creating the
final version elsewhere.
5.
Design Animated GIFS
While
Fireworks isn't inherently an animation software, it can meet your basic needs
for creating an animated gif. You can either use the gif as a website graphic,
or export the gif into a Flash player.
6.
Collect Design Objects
One
of the easiest ways to avoid tedious repetition when it comes to your design is
to use Fireworks' Symbols panel to collect your most popular design objects and
store them. For instance, you might save a company logo in the Symbols panel to
use across multiple web pages, or save a vector image you often use. When
you're ready, simply click, drag, and drop your saved design anywhere on your
Fireworks page.
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