Adobe Fireworks CS4: Basic and Advanced + Certblaster + Data (ILT Series) [Basic and Advanced Student Manuals w/ CD-ROMs]

by Laurie Perry

Contains both the Basic and Advanced Student Manuals. In this ILT Series course, students will learn how to use Fireworks CS4 to design effective, high-quality images for the Web. They will learn how to customize the Fireworks environment, create and modify vector shapes duplicate and merge shapes create and apply custom colors, gradients, and patterns import and modify bitmaps and format text and optimize and export graphics for the Web. In this continuing ILT Series course, students will continue to use Fireworks CS4 to design images for the Web. Students will create complex images by drawing shapes and paths, working with layers and masks, and applying effects and image adjustments. Students will also develop interactive buttons, rollovers, pop-up menus, image maps, and animation.

Spiral-bound

Published January 1, 2008

About the author

Laurie Perry is the author of "Drunk, Divorced & Covered In Cat Hair" -- the irreverent first-person narrative of a contemporary, displaced Southern woman facing life after her husband leaves her to "get his creativity back."

She is best known for her online diary, CrazyAuntPurl.com. It's a peek into the daily life of a woman who is trying to figure it all out, whatever "it" may be, with a fine assortment of wines, cats and post-divorce home improvement projects.

Her website has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, MSN.com, and has been nominated for a 2007 Webby Award. Perry has also been spotlighted in ForeWord Magazines ForePlay column, and Vogues "Knit 1" magazine.

Perry was born in Texas and has lived in the bayous of Louisiana, the backwoods of Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee. She now lives and writes in Los Angeles.

Her book is available in stores nationwide on October 11."