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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!

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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Rapid Fire #10: Circular Shadows & Highlights

Published on February 8, 2008 in Adobe, Design, Fireworks, Rapid Fire and Tutorial. 39 Comments

Before and after

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…

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Rapid Fire #9: Fun With The Satin Gradient

Published on December 18, 2007 in Adobe, Design, Fireworks, Rapid Fire and Tutorial. 12 Comments

Blue light swirls

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.

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Rapid Fire #8: Extracting Logos

Published on September 20, 2007 in Adobe, Design, Fireworks, Rapid Fire and Tutorial. 38 Comments

Before and after

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 (Icon).

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