Rapid Fire #6: Sticky Notes

Sticky notes are little pieces of bright-colored paper with an adhesive strip on the back, allowing you to jot down reminders, checklists, or *gasp* passwords and post them onto a surface.

This Adobe® Fireworks® tutorial will show you how to recreate them digitally, with a certain degree of realism, for your own design projects.

{by BrownBatteryStudios}

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+40 best icons packs that webdesigners should have

If you are a webdesigner you have certainly understood what I tried to explain to you! And you should know that every week, several websites publish great and useful icons packs. Then, why do you continue loosing precious time, creating new icons for each of your all new web designs projects? Start to work with the different graphic elements, it’s quick easy and mostly FREE!

For your next project look at this selection of the best perfect icons packs I found on the Web. If you know other download icons links, please post them into the comments.

{by 2ExpertsDesign}

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People Silhouette

Another huge set of free vector People Silhouette set.

This time it is unique clip art of just a  common people witch you can find in everyday life, men & women, university students and teachers, cook & waiter, fireman, farmer, clown & cowboy, policeman, man in batman suit,  musician, builders, footballer, engineer, porter.

{by AllSilhouettes}

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Fireworks Patterns

Draw a vector on the canvas. In the Properties window click on the Fill category and select Pattern, a range of patterns appear. Select one of these and your vector gets filled with this pattern.

When you enlarge the vector the pattern gets pixilated, so avoid resizing the vector, instead draw the exact size of the vector and then fill it with the pattern.

You can also create custom patterns and add it to the Fireworks pattern list.

{by EntheosWeb}

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Stock Vectors >> Tribal Vectors

This and many others Tribal Tattoos can be found at VectorPortal under category “Tribal Vectors.”

{by VectorPortal}

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Rapid Fire #5: Image Editing Tricks Part II

We conclude our two-part Rapid Fire special with a technique that will save you from manual-erase horrors that come with placing one photo over another.

Using vector shapes and the Multiply blend mode in Adobe® Fireworks® allows us to create adjustable superimpositions and preserve the shadows of the superimposed image.

This works best with photos of objects with a flat white background, standard among stock photos.

{by BrownBatteryStudios}

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40+ Striking Adobe Fireworks Tutorials

Now Adobe Fireworks is getting famous then before, because this growing prototyping tool for designers, many web designers find different techniques, experiments and learn how to work with various characteristics of Adobe Fireworks to interest up tedious pictures and make them into works of arts, in these of all listed tutorials many ways to get more inspirational stuff for design industry, If you’re interested in improving your skills with Fireworks, here are some of the best tutorials available.

{by TutorialLounge}

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9 eCommerce Vector Icons

Well well well, our friend Carlos in another burst of generosity have provide us 9 simple but stylish eCommerce related vector icons.

Hope you like them “snappers” (as he said to us lol.)

{by Snap2Objects}

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Adobe Fireworks Tutorial - Creating Orbs

The Simple Orbs Tutorial is a very simple technique, yet it could add some dramatic touches to your design.

It is just one layer object but you can replicate it over and over, and change the sizes.

{by Blue2x}

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Abstract website backgrounds, HTML and CSS templates

If you are planning to redesign your website or make a new one, these five web backgrounds might help you with the design idea.

What you get in the package? Web ready (optimized) images with HTML and CSS codes.

{by PsdGraphics}

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People in Couples

New mega set of people silhouettes - People in Couples.

56 detailed outlines of girls and men, parents with their children, business partners and lovers, friends and relatives. Also you can find some romantic couples, easy to create eye catching love images and illustrations for Valentine’s day.

{by All-Silhouettes}

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Free Vectors

Welcome to Mad Media Monkey´s Free Vectors Section.

Our online gallery of free to use vector graphics are for personal use and most of them can be used commercially.

If you choose to use a vector, please leave a comment
so we know what types of vectors you like. Also, show support by visiting our contributors site.

{by MadMediaMonkey}

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Rapid Fire #4: Image Editing Tricks Part I

This dual serving of Rapid Fire demonstrates some basic image compositing techniques in Adobe® Fireworks®.

This is the first of two parts, and will serve as a simple intro showing how to create and match perspectives using the Distort Tool. 

And what better example than putting a screenshot over an empty screen?

{by BrownBatteryStudios}

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Rapid Fire #3: Quick ‘N Dirty Outlines

In this edition of Rapid Fire, we’ll be making use of a particular design resource in a not-so-conventional manner.

Utilizing readily-available corroded fonts, we can achieve a marker- or chalk-stroke effect with which to frame or emphasize our design elements in Adobe® Fireworks®.

{by BrownBatteryStudios}

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Creating an icon in Fireworks

Adobe Fireworks is a familiar tool to a significant subset of web developers. There are many reasons for this. In addition to the benefits of integrating with Dreamweaver, Fireworks has an easy-to-use interface and includes a wide array of web-focused features. The image creation, slicing, and optimization tools make Fireworks extremely useful for both beginning and advanced users alike.

Because graphic elements are fundamental to high-quality web design, they require extra attention. Web icons—the basic ingredients of any well-designed site—have a special place in this group. Creating icons with Fireworks is easy, and it is also a really productive way to create your site files. This article provides a step-by-step guide to creating a folder icon in Fireworks.

{by Adobe}

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Handdrawn Swooshes

Lately I’ve been playing around with hand drawn type for a couple of personal projects. I’ve always liked drawing type, and I’ve been practicing more lately.

For one of the pieces, I was adding some ’swooshes’ to the type, and I thought I’d expand it and make it a free vector pack for yall. So here it is!

They’re great to use for embellishing type, and have plenty of other uses.

I’m including a preview below. Enjoy!

{by ThinkDesignBlog}

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Interaction design and rapid prototyping with Fireworks

In the following four short video presentations, I demonstrate how to use Adobe Fireworks CS4 for information and interaction design and creating interactive prototypes quickly, and how you can use Fireworks as a design tool that fits into your complete design process, from concept to development.

{by Adobe}

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Adobe Fireworks customized oil splatter stroke for background

The final outcome of this tutorial is as shown above.

·         To begin with I opened a new canvas of size 900x900

·         Drew a vector square covering the complete canvas

·         Provided gradient radial fill in shades of blue as shown below…

{by Imajine}

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Apple Air Banner in Fireworks

I’ve always been a huge Apple fanboy, I love the attention to the details and the importance Steve Jobs and his team have given to the design above all. With the new Macbook Air is not different. It’s just incredibly thin and very beautiful. Well I’ve started to save money because I will have to get one of those.

Another thing that caught my attention was the banner they had placed in the Apple’s front-page, I really liked the simplicity with gradients and the new typeface, Myriad Light I think.

Because of that I will show you how to create that effect in an easy and quick way using Fireworks.

{by Abduzeedo}

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Fireworks 101

Hi guys, this week we have a very nice tutorial done by a guest writer.

It covers some basic functionalities and it's very useful for those willing to improve their Fireworks skills. You will learn how to play with paths, combining, subtracting and much more.

Also you will end up creating a logo.

And, if you want to post a tutorial or a good post, just send us an email with your article.

Thanks and enjoy.

{by Abduzeedo}

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