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

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

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

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’

Fireworks Zone: Tutorial Design Contest

Our good friends over at Fireworks Zone are holding a tutorial contest for Adobe® Fireworks® users. At stake are three (3) copies of GenoPal Pro and other goodies for the Fireworks enthusiast. The deadline for entries has been moved to the 30th of March, 2008, so send in those awesome Fireworks tutorials, already!

Proceed to the contest page for more details.

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Rapid Fire #10: Circular Shadows & Highlights

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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