I came across the new iCloud application from apple (which is in beta at the time of writing this tut) the logo replicates the brushed metal that permeates most, if not all apple products. I thought it would be a good excuse to show some techniques for creating brushed metal effects.
While creating the google plus icon recently I started to explore creating other icons.
Even though Fireworks is a great web workhorse its still possible to create some nice photo manipulation effects similar to photoshop. In this article i’ll go through a simple way to approximate the “tilt shift” effect we see all over flickr and alike.
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.
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.
Welcome to the very first tutorial of firetuts.com. I will show you how you can easily make one of those sleek abstract wallpapers you’ve probably seen before, with Adobe (or Macromedia) Fireworks. I shall give credit to Collis for the original tutorial for Photoshop. This tutorial, however, will also teach you a trick to color [...]