These are five good tutorials to start looking at if you want to Learn Fireworks, awesome stuff for the ultimate rapid Web Graphics Development tool.

Fireworks 101

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Glowing light trail in Fireworks

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Create a Vista Wallpaper in Fireworks

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In this tutorial we will be covering the Basics of Icon creation by creating a ‘monitor’ icon like below. We will be using the Pen tool and be practicing a fairly common illistration technique for icon development.

First create a new document, I made mine 400 x 400 pixels with a white background. Next pull out the pen tool , and then configure your brush tool to be 3 pixels wide. (make sure you configure the brush tool like below) Also be sure to create a new layer over the background layer.

Next with the pen tool

create a shape like below. Note that I am zoomed in, in this picture.

Now right click in the area and select stroke path (pictured above), when the dialouge box comes up choose the following options.

Press ok, then right click and choose Delete Path you should come out with the following:

Next you will need to use the pen tool again and create lines like the following image

Now this part will probably

be the hardest part so you may mess up a few times but keep at it until you get a good curve. With the pen tool, and on the same layer make a path like below (to do curves when you click the second time, drag the mouse around to configure the curve.

Stroke the path again and zoom out to make sure it looks right, do the same thing to the other side of the computer monitor.

Now make two lines like below.

Now you need to make the curve for the stand, make it look like below

You are now completed with the outline of the computer!

Proceed to the next page to see how to color it

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Objectives

In this tutorial we will cover the art of creating super cool tech sigs!

• The Basics of Signature (sig) creation
• Using Abstract and Tech Brushes

Difficulty Level: Intermediate

RESOURCES REQUIRED

CFX Metal Sig

Tech Brush Set V2

Grunge Brushes 3

Props and many thanks to the authors of those three brushes, be sure to leave them a comment on how cool their brushes are.

Final Result

To begin you need to load all the brushes you downloaded into Photoshop, to do this, Click on the small arrow in the brush editing area and select “Load Brushes”, you can then load in the .abr brushes.

Your next step is to create a new document 350×150 px (a common dimension for sigs), then set your foreground color to white, and background color to black, next go to Filter > Render > Clouds

Now let’s begin using those brushes you downloaded, pull out the Brush tool, and select one of the CFX Metal Sig Abstract Brushes, just choose a random shape, set the opacity of the brush to 30%, set your foreground color to black and randomly paint the different shapes around the area. Create a new layer set the foreground color to white, and with the same brush (or even a different one) paint some more random shapes around the area, do this 3-4 more times each time creating a new layer, and alternating from black to white. This is what I came out with

Next do about the same thing except use Grunge Brushes, alternating from black and white, a new layer each time, and about 3-4 times.

Now we are going to color this up a bit, go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Color Balance (from now on referred to as Color Balance), choose a color you’d like your sig to fit and press ok, I chose yellow but you can choose just about any color you want.

In the next popup window you can configure the different color levels for the Midtones of the Sig, I pushed heavily to the yellow side to give it a yellow tint, just fool around with it until you have something that looks cool then press ok.

Now go to Color Balance again, choose yellow and in the next popup window do the same thing except choose the Highlights radio button and once again fool around with the sliders until you get something you are satisfied with. Then once again bring up the Color Balance window, select Yellow and do the Shadows. This is what I came out with:

You now have a good base to work with, in the next step we will add in the model and do the Tech Brushes.

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