Design wisdom in red and grey.
Gradients and masks are all it takes to create lighting effects for circular shapes in Adobe® Fireworks®. Generate as many layers of shadows and highlights as you need. Let me show you how…
Continue reading ‘Rapid Fire #10: Circular Shadows & Highlights’
One of the things that make image editing apps exciting to use is the constant thrill of stumbling upon something unexpected, but produces interesting results. One such thing is Adobe® Fireworks®’ Satin Gradient, and how its (kinda) unpredictable behavior makes it easy to create abstract glowing light swirls with.
Continue reading ‘Rapid Fire #9: Fun With The Satin Gradient’
After a short hiatus, I’m back with a tutorial that shows you how to extract a logo and/or logotype from a raster image, using only Adobe® Fireworks®‘ Live Filters. With this method, you also have the option to re-color the lifted logo in anyway you want: solid, gradient, or textured. All of this, while avoiding the temptations of the quick-and-dirty Wand Tool 
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I’ve only worked on or played around with a Mac for a total number of hours that can be counted with my two hands, and most of those hours were spent testing how Web page layouts would hold up on Safari. So when Apple made available Safari 3 Public Beta to Windows users, it meant that I could finally complete my cross-browser testing suite (Swift just doesn’t cut it for me).
Lucida Grande is such a nice font to use in websites, but because it doesn’t come standard with Windows, we turn to Lucida Sans Unicode and Lucida Sans to make sure users get a similar look. Unfortunately, both typefaces have imperfections that make them less-than-worthy candidates for substitution. Oh, dear.
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