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If you haven’t visited yet the http://www.fireonthebay.org/ user group have a meeting every third tuesday of the month. Its a great way to interact with other fireworks users and get to pose some questions to the people in the know . Last months meeting was 10 coolest features of fireworks cs3 and was a great view from any perspective, if you missed it click hear to see the recording.

This month

• Date: Tuesday, March 18th, 2007 6:30pm
• Speaker: Tim Strickland
• Topic: Making Fireworks kuler
• Location: 601 Townsend St, San Francisco, California 94103 (Kojack Conference Room)

Making Fireworks kuler:

• kuler overview
• What’s new in kuler 2.0
• Prototyping kuler 2.0 with Fireworks
• kuler 3rd party APIs & applications

Fireworks Zone is holding a contest sponsored by GenoPal, the color selection software. Color plays an important role in design and to help you choose the right color, GenoPal is the color selection software you need.

The task: design a Fireworks tutorial will win a prize:
1st place: 1 copy of Genopal Pro v1.0 + 1 copy of DistriFusion Pro
2nd place: 1 copy of Genopal Pro v1.0 + Playing with Fire
3rd place: 1 copy of Genopal Pro v1.0

Contest will end February 28th, 2008

This is a tip good for poster art. Add a radial gradient in bold text to spice things up. If you’re tired of using borders and bevels, try this.

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Here’s a list of all the basic tutorials I could find. These are good for those who are brand new to Fireworks or to the world of graphic design via Fireworks. Enjoy.

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I have noticed a considerable demand for a tutorial like this, so I’ve decided to give it a try. It’s not easy, and the result is not perfect, but its a good attempt nonetheless.

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The good people at Macworld has reviewed Adobe Fireworks CS3 and have given it thumbs up.

If you design and develop Web sites, you can’t afford not to use Fireworks CS3.

See the article here.

Also, Adobe products will be compatible with Leopard.

In the meantime, I am waiting for my copy of Adobe Fireworks CS3 to arrive at my doorstep. I have been using Fireworks 8 for all my tutorials to date, just for your information.

Can anyone highlight any improvements that you find significant?

This next guest tutorial is written by Mark Lawson. He will show you how to make a simple marble/glass ball effect.

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This tutorial will show you how to create a barcode for any purpose.

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Draw a realistic enough picture of a planet in space completely from scratch with Fireworks. You don’t even need any images, its all there in your textures. This tutorial is inspired by this one.

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A tutorial which will give you step-by-step instructions to create a peeling effect. Great for placing in a corner of a website to reveal news or offers.

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