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I Have Good News, Bad News, and a New Fireworks Tutorial

Published on February 3, 2012 in Adobe, Design, Fireworks, Rapid Fire and Tutorial. 1 Comment

First, the bad news: with all the stuff that’s been going on with work, I’ve only been able to update this blog with tidbits, and only when I have time to do so. I’m afraid I won’t be able to post any Rapid Fire tutorials for a while.

But that doesn’t mean I’ll stop writing Adobe Fireworks tutorials, which brings me to the good news:

I’ve been given the opportunity by popular design resource Smashing Magazine to write Fireworks articles and tutorials. My new tutorial, Extracting Logos Using Levels In Adobe Fireworks is the first of many collaborations between me and the awesome people I get to work with. Expect more in the coming months, but for now, I hope you enjoy my debut article!

Fireworks Goodness: Qrayg’s Fw PNG Week Project (+ a Tip on Filename Conventions)

Published on February 2, 2011 in Adobe, Design and Fireworks. 2 Comments

Craig Erskine's Fw PNG Week Project

In March of 2010, Craig Erskine (a.k.a., qrayg.com) set out to create PNG vector files and offer them for free download to the Adobe Fireworks community. Ten months later, his Fw PNG Week project has consistently grown into a solid collection of 48 52 Fireworks vector resources, ideal for designers of application interfaces, websites, logos and icons.

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Graphika Manila 2010

Published on July 7, 2010 in Design. Closed

Graphika Manila 2010

Graphika Manila 2010 is the fifth installment of the Philippines’ premier multimedia design conference. Creative professionals and passionates will once again gather on August 7, 2010 at the SM Mall of Asia to be treated to a whole day of design wisdom and inspiration from both local and foreign talents. If you’re into art and design (and happen to be in the Philippines), you’d be a fool to skip this. (Last couple of times I did, I missed out on Pixar and ILM. Crap.)

For more information, go to http://www.graphikamanila.com/, or http://www.facebook.com/graphikamanila.

Rapid Fire #11: Dot Matrix Effect

Published on July 11, 2009 in Adobe, Design, Fireworks, Rapid Fire and Tutorial. 9 Comments

Sixthings dot matrix effect - final output

In this resurrection post for the Rapid Fire tutorial series, we make use of Adobe® Fireworks®‘s Grid Fill Texture to apply a dot matrix effect to any vector element.

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Arched Text: An Inkscape Tutorial

Published on November 11, 2008 in Design, Inkscape, Tutorial and Typography. 36 Comments

Sixthings Arched Text

This tutorial shows you how to create a baseline arch on a block of text and add some basic treatments to it, using open source vector graphics editor Inkscape. Basic knowledge of Inkscape is recommended. Continue reading ‘Arched Text: An Inkscape Tutorial’