Jim Babbage (contributor from CommunityMX) comes from the photographic world, and has spent many years as a professional studio photographer. His involvement with the Web began in the mid-90s when the company he worked for had just gotten online. Born and raised in Toronto, Jim teaches imaging, Web design, and photography at Centennial College's Centre for Creative Communications (www.thecentre.centennialcollege.ca). He is a partner in Newmedia Services (www.nms123.ca), a small communications company, specializing in the things he teaches. He is a regular contributing partner to Community MX (www.communitymx.com), where he's written many articles and tutorials for Fireworks, Dreamweaver, and other general Web topics. He has been a guest speaker at TODCON for several years.
Getting good quality text in a JPEG file has long been a concern for many designers. Fortunately for us, Fireworks MX and higher versions have a very useful feature to help with this called the Selective Quality. In Fireworks MX 2004 and higher, we also have the ability to adjust and c...Oct. 25, 2006 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 13,261
I've lately seen a few posts on the Adobe forums and here on CMX about batch processing in Fireworks. Considering the Fireworks 8 Batch Processing utility had some noteworthy revisions, I thought it would be a good idea to go over the wizard in detail. Streamlined and enhanced file ren...
Sailing, sailing over the bounding sea... Or in our case, inside a wine glass. We've all seen the ship-in-a-bottle knick-knack. Well, I'm here to show you how to set a sailboat afloat in a wine glass, using Fireworks MX or MX 2004, vector AND bitmap masks. Heave ho, matey, and don't fo...
