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What’s New in Fireworks CS6

• Improved CSS support – Extract CSS code with the Properties panel and create CSS sprites from design comps. Mock up complete web pages and export layouts with external style sheets in one step.
• New jQuery Mobile theme skinning support – Create, modify, or update jQuery themes for mobile websites and apps, including CSS sprite images.
• Easy-to-use screen-based design tools – Quickly create, edit, and optimize your designs, web and mobile mock-ups, and more with easy-to-use vector and bitmap graphics tools.
• Intelligent integration – Import and export to Photoshop and Illustrator. Copy and paste from Fireworks to Dreamweaver. Work faster thanks to tight Integration with other Adobe solutions.
• Templates and styles – Save time, boost productivity, and increase standardization with templates for mobile apps, web content, and designs. Add customized styles to your library.
• Pixel-precise rendering – Keep designs crisp on destination screens with advanced rendering. Vector and bitmap objects appear sharper, even when converted from one mode to the other.

While creating the google plus icon recently I started to explore creating other icons.

I managed to create a fair list and If im honest I only tackled the easy ones but if you look at the file you’ll see I used the same basic method on all icons to create the shine effect.

In short it can be broken down into these steps.

1. Create gradient fill (brand colour mixing into lighter colour).
2. Add a “inner glow” with a darker or similar shade of the brand colour.
3. Add a border colour thats darker or similar shade of the brand colour.
4. Once you’ve got the logo shape then apply a drop shadow with a darker or similar shade of the brand colour

Below is the list of Icons in the source file.

• Google Plus
• Twitter
• Facebook
• Linkedin
• Myspace
• RSS
• Pod Cast
• Quora
• Flickr
• Yahoo
• Digg
• WordPress

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

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

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?