1. Unbelievable Vector Illustration.
Creating Realistic, Bitmap-Looking Vector Art! Getting Started. Building Unique Vector Shapes. Adding Texture and Color. Pasting Objects Inside Other Objects. Modifications.
2. Brilliant Bitmap Collage.
Building World-Class Compositions. Getting Started. Altering a Bitmap Shape. Massaging Pixels. Removing the Fringe Around a Bitmap. Adding an Interesting Background. Adding Images Inside the Shell. Modifications.
3. Exporting Excellence.
Optimal Performance from Web Page Designs. Getting Started. Outlining the Challenges. Slicing a Nested Table Structure. Optimizing and Exporting the Graphics. Optimizing the Navigation Bar. Optimizing and Exporting the Animation. Modifications.
4. Background Tile Design.
Creating and Previewing Custom, Seamless Background Tiles. Getting Started. Creating a Seamless Pattern Tile. Simulating the Final Web Page Look. Optimizing and Exporting an Oversized Tile. Modifications.
5. Animated Product Showcase.
Building a Dynamic Interface with Rollover Animations. Getting Started. Building a Button. Animating Objects. Exporting GIF Animations. Modifications.
6. Dynamic Interface Design.
Using Rollovers to Magically Expand Your Page's Interface. Getting Started. Building the Tab Graphic Symbol. Creating the MouseOut Animations. Building the MouseOver States. Exporting the Animations to Create External Files. Adding the Swap Image Behaviors. Modifications.
7. Flashy Buttons.
Building Great-Looking Buttons and Art for Flash Movies. Getting Started. Drawing Button and Movie Frame Artwork in Fireworks. Making the 'Jumpin Jack' . Exporting the Button Frames from Fireworks. Importing the Fireworks Button Frames into Flash. Creating Movie Clip Frames in Fireworks. Modifications.
8. Large-Scale Link Management.
Maintaining Link Consistency. Getting Started. Using the URL Panel. Updating and Exporting Link Libraries. Modifications.
9. The Ultimate Navigational Bar.
Building a Web Navigation Bar. Getting Started. Making the Button Graphics. Making the Button Symbols with Text. Assembling a Navigation Bar. Modifications.
10. Perfect Pop-Up Menus.
Building Pop-up Navigation Menus. Getting Started. Creating a Pop-Up Menu Navigation Bar. Exporting Pop-Up Menus. Modifications. Bonus Modification: Using Pop-Ups Instead of Swap Rollovers.
11. To Dreamweaver and Back.
Working Smartly Between Dreamweaver and Fireworks. Getting Started. Slicing the Interface and Assigning Behaviors. Exporting the Interface to Dreamweaver MX as HTML. Round-Trip Editing. Modifications.
12. Instantly Updated Web Sites.
Updating Web Site Graphics with Batch Processing Tools. Getting Started. Using Find and Replace with the Project Log. Using the Project Log. Changing the Color Scheme. Using Batch Processing. Modifications.
13. Automagic Graphic Production.
Spare Your Brain from Repetitive Tasks. Getting Started. Scaling and Exporting Thumbnails. Framing Thumbnails. Creating a Detailed View. Modifications.
14. Collaborative Workflow.
Ensuring Design Consistency. Getting Started. Saving Basic Styles and Symbols. Creating a Glassy Button Symbol. Building a Navigation Bar. Modifications.
15. Powerful Fireworks Extensions.
Creating Custom Flash-Enabled Commands. Getting Started. Setting Up the Design Environment. Building the Extension by Remembering a Little History. Giving the Extension a User Interface. Modifications.
Index.
What's on the CD-ROM.
About Lisa Lopuck
(Also by Lisa Lopuck)
The creative director and cofounder of Electravision, Lisa Lopuck is a well-known expert on user interface design. She speaks around the world at Web conferences, and teaches interactive media seminars at universities and colleges, including Stanford, UCLA, University of Hawaii, and San Francisco State University.
Lisa's first book, Designing Multimedia, has been translated into multiple languages, and is used as a new media reference around the world. Her second book, Kid's Web Kit, is a CD-ROM book and software set that steps kids through a fun, animated process for creating their own Web site.
Prior to forming Electravision, Lisa's interactive multimedia career included working with such companies as the Apple Multimedia Lab, Voyager, film producer George Lucas, Kidsoft, Lakeida, United Nations, Sony Corporation, Microsoft, vivid studios, and Clement Mok designs.
Lisa holds a B.A. in communication design from UCLA.
