A well-written, carefully organized tutorial on how to create and edit Web graphics with the industry's leading stand-alone tool.
Macromedia Fireworks is often sold in combination with Dreamweaver, and has earned a reputation as the best, most full-featured tool designed specifically for Web graphics.
Written by an expert graphics designer with over ten years of experience with computer graphics and a portfolio of Web graphics designed with Fireworks.
Covers the new version of Fireworks, expected in Spring 2002.
Sams Teach Yourself Macromedia Fireworks X in 24 Hours is written for Web designers who are looking for a book to quickly and easily get up to speed with Fireworks. The reader most likely has some experience creating Web pages and designing Web graphics, and probably plans on using Fireworks in conjunction with Dreamweaver. Readers will learn everything they would need to know in order to use Fireworks in a professional graphics production environment - everything from how to create and edit graphics, to using complex techniques like transformations, to optimizing graphics for use on Web pages, to create animations and interactive elements.
Jackson West is an interactive multimedia design consultant with over ten years of experience in computer graphics. He first came in contact with Fireworks while working at Shockwave.com and Macromedia, where he found that he could do everything with Fireworks that he was used to doing with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Image Ready.