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August 30, 2007

Todays Fireworks CS3 Jam Session Recorded!

Wow, today was a great day for the Fw CS3 Jam Sessions as we had Ryan Smith do a demo of the new sample he submitted that now lives on the Fireworks Developer Center > Samples.

Also, a very special guest joined us today, Tom Hobbs from the XD team at Adobe dropped in and shared some killer techniques that he uses on a daily basis with Fireworks. Some of the techniques shown today have really made me rethink how I design in Fireworks!

This weeks recording:
http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/p89009038/

Thanks Tom and Ryan!

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August 28, 2007

Last weeks Fireworks jam session

Here's the recording for last weeks Fireworks CS3 jam session making it our 12th session so far. In this session, I'd suggest scrubbing to 18 minutes and watch Lian give some killer tips on handling bitmap and vector highlights in Fireworks CS3.

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August 27, 2007

PNG to SWFs

How do you export PNGs as SWFs from Fireworks? Its not that common of a question, but always has me searching for an extension that Jesse made awhile back that does just that. He also posted the source and a Draw Grid guide command too!

http://www.jessewarden.com/archives/fireworks/

Posted by amusselman at 03:52 PM | Comments (2)

August 23, 2007

Fireworks in LA!

Tonight, I'll be giving a Fireworks CS3 demo in Los Angeles at the LAdobe user group and helping out with any design or technical related questions thereafter. Hope you can make it! If time allows I'll geek out and show off some progress with a new and improved CSS export script and cool extensions that can improve your current workflows.

Also, dont forget the Fireworks Jam Session is in 45 minutes at 11am (pst)! Its a totally informal Connect session. We usually start the first ten minutes figuring out what everyone wants to see or demo...you never know today we may do a design train or dive into some troubleshooting or help someone out with a question related to Fireworks.

 

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August 20, 2007

kuler and Fireworks CS3

Ben at pixelfumes ported over his kuler panel from Flash CS3 to Fireworks CS3 and would like some feedback in terms of how Fireworks users would use the panel. I was delighted to see him write a Flash developer center article on the kuler panel and expose the development efforts it took to create the panel as well as hand out the source so anyone else can de-construct or extend the panel. This is truly the best way to learn and I personally value designers and developers highly when they push out something they want to share with the community.

Download the Fireworks kuler panel and have fun!

Be sure to give Ben some feedback if you feel the panel should be working differently than it currently does inside Fireworks CS3.

Thanks Ben!

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FireworksGuru: John Dunning

Today is a great day as John Dunning updated his list of current Adobe Fireworks Extensions. I've always considered John to be an elite Fireworks user if not the godfather of Fireworks and its time to give him recognition as a FireworksGuru for all the insanely helpful extensions John has given to the Fireworks community. You can also find John over at fireworksguruforum.com helping people out with extending Fireworks.

Thanks John for all you do!

Posted by amusselman at 12:14 PM | Comments (0)

August 17, 2007

This weeks recorded Jam session

Here's this weeks recorded Fireworks CS3 totally informal jam session recording in all its glory. Aaron over at fw.abeall.com gave a sweet demo of the new Paths panel that allows you to easily manipulate vector paths in one centralized panel. Thats the highlight with this weeks session! Other than that, we answered a couple questions based on the support forum posts.

http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/p45364723/


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Bridge Home and Fireworks CS3

Anyone see Bridge Home which essentially acts a central hub for content from within Bridge?

It's cool and an easy way to quickly surf tutorials, extensions, community blogs etc.. for our products. With Fireworks, a lot of the information is already on the Fireworks Design and Developer Centers, but its nice to know you can easily access the content while using Bridge.

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August 16, 2007

San Francisco and Adobe

If you live in San Francisco and use Adobe apps like Fireworks, then you could be a part of a video for the Adobe Users Conference. Here's the post below from Gregg. I chopped the post down to reflect the app I want you to talk about...ahem...Fireworks!

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LOOKING FOR ADOBE USERS IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA TO TAKE PART IN A VIDEO FOR THE ADOBE USERS CONFERENCE.

Are you a web developer who uses Fireworks? Are you primarily focused on designing with Fireworks?

We are looking for true Adobe enthusiasts to be interviewed on-camera for the production of a video to be shown at the annual Adobe Users Conference in Chicago - Adobe MAX.

The video is tentatively scheduled to be shot August 28th , 29th and September 4th in San Francisco. We would need you for just one of those days. The shoot will be short, 1 to 2 hours maximum.

To submit yourself for consideration to be in this production,  please email the following information:

Email Gregg at adobecast@yahoo.com

We are not having an audition for this so please be detailed in your email.

If interested I will get back to you with more details.

Thank you!!!
Gregg (female) :-)
Casting Director

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August 09, 2007

Fireworks CS3 Jam Session 10 recorded!

Today we touched on using Behaviors, utlizing the Paths panel and working with Blend modes in Fireworks CS3. Thanks to everyone that kindly did a demo that was a lot of fun as always. :)

First half (Covered behaviors for the most part)
http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/p41283388/

Second half (Blend modes/Paths panel I think)
http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/p66605021/

Next week we may see Lian give us a demo on using Textures for various type of effects, not sure yet as we'll decide what we want to do in the first 5-10 minutes of the session.


Posted by amusselman at 12:39 PM | Comments (0)

Fireworks Jam Session in 1 hour!

It's that time again, please join us for the Fireworks Jam session today at 11am (PST) today. If you have any ideas for the session, bring them to the table! See you shortly!

Fireworks CS3 Jam Session
https://admin.adobe.acrobat.com/_a295153/osd/

Posted by amusselman at 09:53 AM | Comments (0)

August 08, 2007

Need Textures for Fireworks?

Here's a Texture collection by z2server.com where they packaged not only a couple of textures but literally hundreds you can choose from and install via MXPs into Fireworks. Talk about saving you lots of time from having to download each texture one at time!


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August 02, 2007

Todays Fireworks CS3 Jam Session Recorded!

The session today was a lot of fun! I believe we now have a synergy we all like and thats creating a Design Train where one of us starts a design off and each person can only spend 10 minutes on adding/modifying something to the design. Tim recommended a commentary so I did my best describing what was going on when someone was presenting. Trick is who is going to do the commentary on me? hehe

Todays design was a Tech style interface and I had no idea where to start so I started out creating some containers and mucking with colors, passed the file to Angelo, he added his magic with giving the design life and then passed the file to Grant where he applied his gradient skills with the custom Gradient panel he developed in Flash and made a hand off to Ryan where he did a lot of fine-tuning and cleaned up the interface then Tim jumped in and gave the design some definition and added final touches. We all came to the conclusion its an app that would be viewed on your refrigerator monitor. Not bad for a random team with a random concept with only ten minutes each to create something to add to the tech style interface. All I gotta say is I cant wait till next Thursday!

08-02-07 Recording:
http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/p42396401/

Final Tech style UI we created:



Download PNG

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Fireworks Jam session in 1.5 hours!

Fireworks CS3 Jam session starts in 1.5 hours, feel free to join up! Last week Blue2x showed us a lot of neat effects with text objects.

11am-12PM PST and beyond if Im not too hungry for lunch. :-)

The first ten minutes is kinda slow seeing if anyone has anything they would like to present or show off, if not, we can discuss or move into demos or show workflows pertaining to questions asked in the jam session. Its also a good place to raise any issues or concerns that may be hot in the various Fw forums. And of course have fun!

https://admin.adobe.acrobat.com/_a295153/osd/


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