Integrating Flash, Fireworks, and FreeHand f/x & Design
teaches how to bring together Macromedia´s popular Web-design tools into one integrated workflow. Learn how to prepare and export images made in FreeHand for use with Fireworks and Flash. Discover techniques for exporting Fireworks designs compatibly with FreeHand and Flash. And understand how to edit images generated in FreeHand and Fireworks within Flash. This book will allow you to become comfortable using the complete Macromedia environment to develop professional-level Web pages with interactivity. Real-world projects throughout the book enhance skills and techniques. An accompanying CD-ROM includes: trial versions of Fireworks, FreeHand, and Flash; movies demonstrating techniques discussed in the book; clip art demo with 500 pieces; demo plug-ins; and stand-alone, third-party applications.

Integrating Flash, Fireworks, and FreeHand f/x & Design: Solutions for Web design workflow

 Publisher: Coriolis Group www.coriolis.com

Author(s): Joyce J. Evans

Audience: Web developers

User Level: Intermediate to advanced

ISBN: 1588801632

Pages: 384

Price: 49.99 U.S. 77.99 Canada

Media included: CD-ROM

Date Published: September 2001

Product Description

Integrating Flash, Fireworks, and FreeHand f/x & Design teaches how to bring together Macromedia´s popular Web-design tools into one integrated workflow. Learn how to prepare and export images made in FreeHand for use with Fireworks and Flash. Discover techniques for exporting Fireworks designs compatibly with FreeHand and Flash. And understand how to edit images generated in FreeHand and Fireworks within Flash.

This book will allow you to become comfortable using the complete Macromedia environment to develop professional-level Web pages with interactivity. Real-world projects throughout the book enhance skills and techniques.

An accompanying CD-ROM includes: trial versions of Fireworks, FreeHand, and Flash; movies demonstrating techniques discussed in the book; clip art demo with 500 pieces; demo plug-ins; and stand-alone, third-party applications.

Key Features

Teaches how these three key Web-design tools work together effectively to produce interactive Web pages.

Enhances skills and techniques through the book´s real-world projects, allowing you to create functional and attractive content for the Web.

Points out the key features of each program and demonstrates which tools should be used most effectively for specific projects.

Learn how to export and prepare images made in FreeHand for use with Fireworks and Flash, how to export from Fireworks in a FreeHand and Flash compatible form, and how to edit images generated in FreeHand and Fireworks within Flash.

Includes case studies and accompanying tutorials demonstrating the techniques used to develop outstanding Web pages with these programs.

Media Features

·        Demo versions of Fireworks, FreeHand, Flash, and Dreamweaver

·        Hemera Technologies 500 pieces of clipart

·        Wildform SWFX for Flash text demo

·         Alienskin and AutoFX plugin demos

Why to buy this book

Integrating Fireworks, FreeHand, and Flash f/x & Design teaches how to streamline the use of these applications to maximize and optimize your Web design workflow.

This book addresses the difficulty users of the Macromedia Web studio experience and determines the best way to integrate these programs.  Showcases the complete Macromedia environment to develop professional-level Web pages with interactivity.

The author has pulled together the expertise from top designers in this field including Hillman Curtis, author of Flash Web Design; Scott Hamlin, author of Flash 5 Magic; Tracy Kelly, coauthor of Inside Flash; and Ian Kelleigh, the architect behind www.freehandsource.com.

Author Profile

Joyce J. Evans is a Web designer, technical editor, and an avid user of Fireworks, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and many more graphic programs. She has authored Fireworks 4 f/x & Design, contributed to Dreamweaver 4: The Complete Reference, and has reviewed over 150 graphic design titles. Currently, Joyce is writing Web reviews, tutorials, and articles for Web Review, DT&G Graphic Design, The Internet Eye, and Art Today.