Showing posts from: Adobe Fireworks Extensions

April 4, 2016

Responsive Landing Page with Marketo Integration

As a very varied part of my day job as a technical marketing consultant, there are many varied tasks that are required of me, to maximise conversions for landing page sign-ups and lead acquisition. To this end we decided to take the baseline landing page for free trial reigstrations and give it a facelift and introduce some interesting conversion increasing features. Here's the original landing page, a straightforward light landing page, with the minimum amount of form fields that were originally Read more [...]
June 23, 2013

Old Adobe Fireworks Extensions That Never Made It To Production: Flubber & Reflection

I was trawling through some old archives the other day and stumbled across a couple of old extensions that we were working on that never made it to production to see the light of day. Flubber (Lite Edition) This was inspired by the film 'Flubber' from 1997 starring Robin Williams, and although a quirky idea, never got farther then pre-production prototypes.               Reflector (Lite Edition) An extension that made it to production, Read more [...]
July 16, 2004

Resources for Extending Fireworks-Part 2-Extensions

Right out of the box, Fireworks, no matter the version, is an extremely capable web graphics program. As each new version adds more and more features, the list of things that you're able to do with Fireworks grows and grows. Still, there are ways to make even a good software program better, and the same is true of Fireworks. If you're looking to add capabilities, make things easier by automating tasks, enhance your productivity or creativity, or delve into the inner workings of Fireworks, then you'll want to examine the many ways that the functions of Fireworks can be extended. Read more [...]
July 9, 2004

A New Autoshape: Ribbon

Last week we introduced you to the Wave Auto Shape. This week we will introduce the Ribbon Auto Shape. As stated last week, these two Auto Shapes were created by Hiroshi Miyazawa, who works for Macromedia on the Fireworks QA team.

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October 30, 2003

Creating Isometric Illustrations with Super Guides 1.0 and Fireworks MX

Super Guides 1.0 is an axonometric projection template creator to allow you to create templates of any size, angle and opacity for your isometric illustration needs. Super Guides 1.0 picks up where the standard Fireworks MX guides end, and allows you to create a template for creating isometric illustrations. Read more [...]
April 19, 2003

Using FOTO with Fireworks MX : Soft Glamour Pro

In this tutorial, you will learn how to harness the power of one of the members of the new command set from Phireworx. Soft Glamour Pro is a powerful command, and is one of five of the members of FOTO. Read more [...]
April 11, 2003

Using FOTO with Fireworks MX : Pencil Sketch

In this tutorial, you will learn how to harness the power of one of the members of the new command set from Phireworx. Pencil Sketch is a powerful command, and is one of five of the members of FOTO. Read more [...]
March 9, 2003

Using FOTO with Fireworks MX : Color Glow Pro

In this tutorial, you will learn how to harness the power of one of the members of the new command set from Phireworx. Color Glow Pro is a powerful command, and is one of five of the members of FOTO. Color Glow Pro, adds a complex series of filters and layer manipulations of the original image to give a powerful glow to the image. Not only do you have control of the degree of glow applied, but you can specify optional glow tinting for added effect. Read more [...]
November 23, 2002

Getting the most out of the Soft Glamour 2 Command for Fireworks MX

Professional photographers are used to applying a filter called “Soft focus” (also know as a “Glamour” effect) to enhance fashion and advertising photo shots. The soft focus effect, instead of degrading an image like a simple focus manipulation will do, upholds a sharp version of the subject adding a soft glowing version of it and enhancing, this way, the overall atmosphere. read more

August 4, 2002

Using Juno with Fireworks MX : Vortex Creator

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to effectively use the new Vortex Creator, part of the Juno command set from Phireworx. With Juno you have easy access to creating amazing effects that will bring any composition to life. Before launching straight into the tutorial, if you haven't yet purchased Juno, now is an excellent opportunity to do so. Setting up the Workspace 1 Create a new Fireworks document. Some of the commands produce quite large results, so set the canvas size to 800 x Read more [...]