Soft Glamour 2.0 for Adobe Fireworks CS3

Soft Glamour 2.0 is a non-destructive image effect, brought to you as a joint partnership between Phireworx and Aftershape Enhance image quality, giving the effect of using a camera with a soft focus filter applied. The effect is created on two separated bitmap images, leaving intact the original. The "Soft Glamour" extension has to be intended as a photo retouching effect, and for that reason it can be applied only Read more [...]

July 24, 2002

Building Functioning Flash Buttons With Fireworks Graphics

Thanks in large part to Live Effects, Fireworks makes beautiful buttons. Given its ability to export to SWF, a lot of people assume that they can create killer buttons in Fireworks for use in Flash. Unfortunately, the integration of the two programs doesn’t extend quite that far. But that doesn’t mean you can’t create buttons in Fireworks for use in Flash. It just means that you need to do a couple extra steps. Read more [...]

June 16, 2002

Creating Commands using Fireworks MX and Flash MX

Now that designers and developers can create interactive commands for Fireworks MX—with the help of new features in Flash MX—extensibility is about to become the hot topic in the Fireworks community. Fireworks MX already installs with several new work-saving commands, such as Align and the Data-Driven Graphics Wizard, but these are only the beginning. Read more [...]