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The Power of Adobe Fireworks – What Can You Achieve With It?
- By Michel Bozgounov
- September 17th, 2010
- 235 Comments
Our recent article covering the new features of Adobe Fireworks CS51 provoked a very interesting and intense debate. But because comments ranged from "Fireworks is the best tool for screen design!" to "What exactly is Fireworks?", we thought that another article on this topic might be very useful to Smashing Magazine readers.
However, this time the article will not focus so much on the tool itself, but rather on what can be achieved with it, and more specifically — what can be achieved with its visual/graphic design capabilities. We also hope that the following showcase of inspiring illustrations, created entirely in Fireworks, will not only be interesting to our readers, but will also help put an end to the common misconception that Fireworks is mostly a prototyping tool – and – that for "serious" design you must switch to other tools, namely Photoshop or Illustrator.
Further Reading on SmashingMag: Link
- The Present And Future Of Adobe Fireworks2
- Useful Adobe Fireworks Resources: Extensions3
- Switching From Adobe Fireworks To Sketch: Ten Tips And Tricks4
…What Exactly Is Fireworks? Link
Finding the answer to this question is not so easy. Is it a prototyping or wireframing tool? Or is it a powerful graphics editor? Is it a Photoshop competitor, but for Web design only? Is it none of these, or all of the above?
Perhaps presenting you with a quick overview of some of the key features of Fireworks will help you decide the answer to that question yourself.
What is it? Link
Fireworks is a bitmap and vector graphics editor formerly developed by Macromedia and since 2006 developed by Adobe. The main purpose of Adobe Fireworks is for creating expressive, highly optimized graphics for Web, screen and various devices
It should be noted that because of its main purpose, Fireworks has certain limitations: it supports only RGB/RGBa colors and the maximum canvas size of its files is approximately 10,000×10,000 pixels.
What is it good for? Link
With Fireworks you can make websites, user interfaces and rich Internet application (RIA) interfaces which are editable in both vector and bitmap modes. Fireworks has Pages/Master Pages, Layers, States and Symbols – all features that considerably speed up development of Web designs. You can also use it to create wireframes and interactive prototypes — you can apply behaviors to objects to simulate interactivity; you can add text, symbols, images and also import Illustrator and Photoshop assets; and once ready with the design you can export the files as clickable PDF mock-ups for approval.
Fireworks can turn a graphic design project instantly into an interactive Web prototype — simply export a Fireworks single-page or multi-page PNG file as HTML, CSS and images6. You can then send such an interactive prototype to a client for approval; or you can further edit the exported code (which is almost standards compliant7 and uses an external style sheet) in Dreamweaver, Coda or any other code editor of your choice.
Export features Link
Fireworks can export to JPG, GIF/GIF-animated, PNG8/24/32, TIFF and a variety of other graphic formats. The Fireworks compression algorithms are on par with, or even better8 than, Photoshop's. Not only this but Fireworks can also export graphics directly to PNG8 alpha+index transparency format with true cross-browser compatibility (this means the exported PNG files will display correctly even in Internet Explorer 6 and 7). This is one of the areas where Fireworks excels and Photoshop still lags behind9. Fireworks also shows excellent compression options for the iPad and iPhone10 PNG formats.
You can also export Fireworks PNG files as Adobe AIR application prototypes or FXG 2.0 files for development in Flash Catalyst and Flash Builder (FXG 2.0 also allows a much better integration with Illustrator and Photoshop). You can create skin components such as buttons, menu types and form elements for use in Flash Builder (previously known as Adobe Flex Builder).
Formats support Link
Because the native file format of Fireworks is editable PNG (it simply stores additional metadata for layers, animation, vector data, text, effects) and Fireworks is primarily a vector application, development for the iPhone11 is easy and effective in Fireworks. There exist a variety of toolkits12 and rich symbol libraries13 for Fireworks iPhone development and they can speed up your work measurably.
Fireworks can open/import native Photoshop (.psd) and Illustrator (.ai) files with high fidelity of layers, effects and blend modes; you can also import native Adobe Flash vector objects (you may first need to convert them to .ai, though). And from Fireworks you can readily transfer graphic assets back to Illustrator and Photoshop. You can also take your design into Adobe Flash Professional and preserve layer states and symbols for animation interactivity development.
Highly extensible Link
Fireworks is also highly extensible14 — this makes possible the developing of amazing extensions (such as TweetFire15, which lets you instantly tweet the image/design you're currently working on without leaving Fireworks), complex panels, commands and auto shapes.
The Showcase Of Fireworks Illustrations Link
So now that we know what Fireworks is capable of, let's see what designers across the globe are actually doing with it!
The following selection of vector illustrations, logo and icon designs – created in Fireworks – is limited to 19 designers. To make the most of this article, we have made available some Fireworks editable PNG files (.fw.png) which you are welcome to download and deconstruct.
1. David Hogue Link
Dave Hogue16 is the Director of Information Design & Usability at Fluid17, a design and development agency located in San Francisco. His areas of interest include user experience design, usability, interaction design and information design. Dave speaks regularly at the Web Experience Forum and Adobe MAX. He is very active in the Adobe Fireworks community and he regularly posts useful Fireworks tips and tricks on his Twitter18 account.
{01} Golden Compass illustration Link
Created in Fireworks CS4, all vectors, and inspired by this tutorial20 made for Adobe Illustrator (download editable PNG21).
{02} Quartz Watches illustration Link
Created in Fireworks CS5, all vectors, and inspired by a photo of a real quartz watch23 (download editable PNG24).
2. Matthew Inman Link
Matthew is a designer and illustrator who runs the highly successful comics, The Oatmeal25. He lives in Seattle, Washington, and uses Adobe Fireworks to draw all the comic strips26 (http://web.archive.org/web/20110810065019/http://keepinspiring.me/2010/01/interview-with-matthew-inman/27).
Fireworks is intended for web design, but it's also a very capable vector editing tool and it works beautifully if your work is going to end up on a website. …I don't use Photoshop and I'm actually pretty terrible with it. I also have Illustrator and I was using it for a few months, but I ended up going back to Fireworks simply because I'm more comfortable with it and it's better for creating web content.
Following here is a very short selection of only 5 comic strips — all made with Fireworks (but of course you're welcome to explore the full Oatmeal collection28):
{03} 15 Things Worth Knowing About Coffee Link
{04} 20 Things Worth Knowing About Beer Link
{05} How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell Link
{06} Why working at home is both awesome and horrible Link
{07} Duck in Coffee illustration Link
Matthew does not use Fireworks only for drawing his comic strips — for example, see this beautiful "There's a duck in my coffee" vector illustration34, created entirely in Fireworks (see screenshot35 from the process). Check Matthew's portfolio36 if you'd like to see more of his works.
3. Ryan Hicks Link
Did you ever wonder what happens behind the closed doors of Adobe? How their design teams are working? What applications are creating the icons and splash screens of the various Adobe apps? Ryan could tell us a lot about this subject, since he's currently working at Adobe as Design Manager, and prior to that he was Senior Experience Designer at Adobe and Experience Designer at Macromedia. His list of clients also include Polygram Music, Wired Magazine37 and many others (see Ryan's portfolio38).
Let's take a look at some of his design and illustration work.
{08} XD Brownbag Poster series Link
After posting it to the Adobe Developer Connection | Fireworks website, Ryan shared the following about this illustration:
This illustration is just one example of a series from the XD Brownbag seminars at Adobe (XD is the Experience Design team at Adobe). The poster art is drawn up at screen resolution and later scaled, because this enables me to build up the shapes more quickly and get into the "drawing light," which is where the real magic of Fireworks comes in. Its incredibly intuitive gradient opacity controls and the Ellipse gradient's multi-handle directional controls allow a drawing approach that mimics the real behavior of light. Solid objects have a primary base color and separate slices of cast light, bright highlights, and shadows to build up volume and surface.
After the illustration is completed, it is scaled up to print resolution in Fireworks (eat a snack during this process, as big resolutions is one thing Fireworks isn't entirely happy with). This large Fireworks PNG illustration is then taken through Adobe Photoshop to output a transparent PSD, and finally into Adobe Illustrator for layout, typography, and output for the final, print-resolution 24″ x 36″ poster.
Download the Fireworks PNG file.
{09} XD Lunchbox poster Link
{10} XD Beet poster Link
{11} XD Mackerel poster Link
{12} XD Salad poster Link
{13} XD Brownbag poster Link
4. Rogie King Link
Rogie King is the guy behind Komodo Media45. He is a web designer, illustrator and blogger. Lately Rogie started a series of tutorials on Fireworks that are becoming more and more popular every day.
{14} rogieking.com personal site illustrations Link
Composed entirely of vector artwork in Fireworks, this is a piece of art for the new and upcoming tumblog for rogieking.com47.
{15} Logo for rainboxx.de Link
Created for Matthias Dietrich for his PHP development shop, Rainboxx51, this logo was created entirely in Fireworks as vectors. Matthias wanted an evolution to his brand and a professional 3D icon evolution of his current Rainboxx identity. You can view more info about the process, the related dribbble shot52, and you can learn more about the particularly interesting brushed metal effect in this video tutorial.
{16} Mad Mimi Illustrations Link
These are just a couple of illustrations from a series created for the redesign of Mad Mimi56. The illustrations are composed entirely of vectors with the additional use of Fireworks symbols for repeating shapes (such as the boxes).
{17} Adaptive UI icons Link
A custom icon set designed entirely in Fireworks for andCulture58 who wanted an icon set that was smooth, silky and that fit in with the aesthetic of their Flex web application (see a screenshot from the work in progress59).
5. Xiao Cai Link
Xiao currently lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. He's currently building his portfolio and preparing for the RMIT University60. He does not have a personal website but you can check his profile in deviantart61 where he posts some of his works.
Xiao shared with me a bit more details concerning his very interesting technique, which he uses in Adobe Fireworks:
During my free time, I looked through a lot of online tutorials on the use of software like Fireworks, Photoshop and 3DS Max. It is quite amazing that you can learn pretty much anything yourself as long as you put theory and practice together. At the beginning, I created a few simple wallpapers using Fireworks, to get familiar with its tools and options. Then I read an article about creating Chinese painting-like pictures in Adobe Fireworks. I tried a few times and then came up with a style of my own, something like Digital Chinese Painting, and was quite happy with the results. Since then I went deeper and deeper with Gongbi (a meticulously detailed painting style) and Shuimo (a water color style) paintings and re-created them with Fireworks. I was trying different tools and effects to get the right one, then compared these pictures with real Chinese painting reference photos and modified them, until I was satisfied with the end result.
Sometimes, I am also using Fireworks to create icons and other design elements.
Next, you'll see four of Xiao's digital drwaings, each one has a short description added by the author.
{18} DCP2 Fireworks illustration Link
"My first complete painting by using Fireworks. I did everything piece by piece, from background to stamen, with the pen tool, then adjusted the colors and effects. Not really a technical one, but did take me a lot of time. This painting is also featured in "2 Faces Apart", Vol.1, published by King Ink (ISBN: 978-91-85807-05-5)."
{19} DCP3 Fireworks illustration Link
"Created in Fireworks, in a bit different style. And with the experience from the previous one, it was finished easily."
{20} DCP4 Fireworks illustration Link
"Here I tried to focus on the flower, and at the same time combine two different styles together (Gongbi and Shuimo). However, I think I still need to work on the composition."
{21} DCP8 Fireworks illustration Link
"One more illustration in the same style; it also has a night68 version."
6. Jon Hicks Link
Jon Hicks (hicksdesign.co.uk69, @hicksdesign70) is a designer we need not introduce. Among other things, he is the maker of the Firefox, Thunderbird & Mailchimp logos and lately he was Senior Designer at Opera Software71, before returning to freelance work this year.
{22} Mozilla Firefox logo Link
The logo of Mozilla Firefox, one of the leading modern Web browsers, was originally created in Macromedia Fireworks74 in 2004. (Note: Later Jon Hicks re-created75 the logo also in Adobe Illustrator, so that it could be transferred to print more easily).
Currently, Jon Hicks admits that he both loves and hates Fireworks76, one of the reasons for which was apparently Fireworks version CS4, which initially proved to be very unstable on MacOS X and Adobe were quite slow to release two stability patches77 for it.
When I e-mailed Jon a couple of days ago, he was kind enough to share the following with me:
Apart from the first version of the Mozilla Firefox logo, I do all my illustrations in Adobe Illustrator, rather than Adobe Fireworks. I would often use Fireworks for small icons and mocking up site designs, but anything larger and more complicated would be done in Illustrator. The next higher res [resolution] version of the Firefox logo was created in Illustrator — that's not to say it's impossible in Fireworks, but I find Illustrator easier for that kind of thing, and it's then simple to create high res CMYK versions for print, as well as screen.
7. Fabio Sasso Link
Fabio78 is a graphic and web designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil. He's the founder of Abduzeedo79, a blog about design, and he and other designers have published there many tutorials on Fireworks80. Fabio acknowledges that Fireworks is his favorite and most versatile tool for Web design with its amazing vector capabilities and good bitmap editing options as well.
{23} Apple Air banner Link
Done entirely in vectors; there's also a related tutorial as to how it's done in Fireworks82.
{24} Light Effects illustration Link
Done entirely in vectors; there's also a related tutorial as to how it's done in Fireworks.
{25} The Abduzeetles Rockband website design Link
Hilarious — this tutorial85 will teach you how to create a colorful and funny website design for the Abduzeetles Rockband — all with the power of Fireworks vectors! ;)
8. Lucian Dragomir Link
Lucian Dragomir from 2313 Studio is a 20-year-old freelance branding and web designer who is currently studying art and visual technology in Virginia. Graphic design is his passion and Fireworks is what feeds his hunger for design. He likes Fireworks for its user-friendly interface and advanced vector engine which, combined, create good results for fast prototyping, Web design and occasionally even print.
Lucian also loves to share his work at deviantart86.
{26} Vectorizer illustration Link
This is an illustration that won first prize at the 2009 Fireworks Wallpaper Contest, organized by Adobe88 and FwZone89. It was created in Fireworks CS4 and is 100% vector work. To see the full complexity of this illustration, you can download the Fireworks PNG90 file.
{27} Anger Management illustration Link
Experimental 3D render of a fire extinguisher and a lighter using only vectors (Fireworks 8).
{28} iCry illustration Link
Experimental characters and lighting/shadow/reflection simulation, 100% vector work in Adobe Fireworks.
{29} TakeOFF illustration Link
Created in Fireworks 8 with the help of the Alien Skin Splat plugin.
9. Fred Michel Link
Fred Michel is 30 years old and a freelance graphic and web designer, currently living in Montréal, Canada. He first made his way into the graphic design world through being inspired by Fireworks. An interesting fact is that he is color blind. So how does he manage to put the colors together? He says that this is a secret!
{30} Porsche Carrera illustration Link
Originally created in Fireworks in 2004 and is all vector work (download Fireworks PNG95).
{31} Cadillac illustration Link
Created in Fireworks, all vector work (download Fireworks PNG97).
{32} Mercedes SLA concept car illustration Link
Mercedes SLA concept car — originally created in 2005 in Fireworks, all vector work (editable PNG is available for download99). A curious fact is that the concept of the Mercedes SLA car is as old as the year 2000, however, Mercedes did not yet create such a car100 — it only remains a concept till now.
{33} VW Tiguan illustration Link
Created in Fireworks CS3, in 2010, and is all vector work (you may download the editable PNG102). One of Fred's most complex vector illustrations made in Fireworks.
10. Mikko Vartio Link
Mikko Vartio is a visual web designer from Helsinki, Finland. He uses Adobe Fireworks as a primary tool for creating websites, illustrations, for UI Design and wireframing. When he's not working with Fireworks he's reading old sci-fi books and cruising the streets with a longboard.
For Mikko, Fireworks is the perfect tool for delivering ideas destined for screen because of its extensibility, native .ai/.psd support and pixel-perfect accuracy. Mikko can be found on Twitter103 and Flickr104 (where he often posts Fireworks illustrations).
{34} Bears illustration Link
{35} Sealife illustration Link
{36} Longboard illustration Link
{37} Surprise illustration Link
{38} Darth Android illustration Link
Made in Fireworks CS5 in less than an hour, this funny Darth Vader + Google Android mashup can be also seen as a live design session110 recorded at 5x speed. Worth watching!
{39} Magic Mushroom illustration Link
All 100% Fireworks vector work — the original Fireworks PNG file will be available for download as a freebie later at Mikko's personal blog.
11. Angelo Sabal Link
Angelo Sabal works and lives in the Philippines. He's been an avid freelance graphic designer since 2002, specializing in logos, layouts, digital art and multimedia presentations. Fireworks is his design tool of choice.
{40} Colt gun illustration Link
Created in Fireworks CS4, all vectors (download editable PNG113).
{41} Candle illustration Link
Created in Fireworks CS3, all vectors (download editable PNG115).
{42} Dragon shield illustration Link
Created in Fireworks CS4, all vectors (download editable PNG117)
{43} Iron Man 2 helmet illustration Link
Created in Fireworks CS5, all vectors (download editable PNG119).
12. Craig Erskine Link
Craig Erskine120 was born, and is still working, in Green Bay, Wisconsin. He has a passion for designing and building standards compliant, stylish and accessible websites.
Craig is using Fireworks on a daily basis121 and has also published quite a lot of Fireworks tutorials. You may find him on dribbbble and Twitter122.
{44} Mac Mini illustration Link
Created in Fireworks CS4, all vectors (download editable PNG124).
{45} Apple remotes illustration Link
Created in Fireworks CS4, all vectors (download editable PNG126).
13. Pete Lacey Link
Pete Lacey127 is an English graphic designer and artist based in Copenhagen, Denmark. He's working in the field of graphic design, illustration, photography, video editing, motion-graphics, web development, art direction and even audio recording. When it comes to Web design, Fireworks is one of his programs of choice.
When not working with a computer, Pete can often be found behind a drum kit or a guitar instead. And on Twitter128, too.
{46} Fireworks icons Link
Created in Fireworks for a client, 100% vector work.
14. David Brooks Link
David130 is a UX designer at Fellowship Technologies131 and also a photographer. He currently lives and works in Dallas, Texas (USA). You can find him on dribbble and Twitter132.
One of his tools of choice is Fireworks.
{47} Camera-Phone illustration Link
Created in Fireworks for pure fun; all vectors.
{48} Northward Compass website illustration Link
Everything (except the map, which is an imported bitmap), is done as vectors in Fireworks.
15. Tomas Gajar Link
Tomas Gajar is a senior user interface designer. He has been using Fireworks in his daily work for about 7+ years. All designs that you'll see in his DigitalLabs Portfolio135 has been made in Fireworks. You can also find Tomas on Twitter and SofaSurfer136.
{49} DigitalLabs website design Link
{50} Beck's design concept Link
{51} SofaSurfer website design Link
16. Vincent Tremblay Link
Vincent Tremblay is currently studying computer programming at Bois-de-Boulogne College in Montreal, Canada. He spends most of his free time coding desktop applications, but he also loves working with his favorite web design software, Adobe Fireworks. Vincent can also be found at deviantart140.
{52} Neos Carbon 2 logo prototype (neOS Sapphire logo) Link
Created in Fireworks CS5, all vectors.
{53} iCompanion logo prototype (iTunes Companion logo) Link
Created in Fireworks CS5, all vectors.
17. José Rivera Link
José is a very active member of the FireworksGuru forum143 and he also runs a personal blog144 dedicated to Fireworks. You can also check his deviantart145 profile.
{54} Twitter icons Link
Twitter icons, all re-created in Fireworks vectors.
{55} The iPhone, in Fireworks PNG (.fw.png) format Link
The idea to fully vectorize the iPhone is not new — for example, you may check this excellent tutorial149 on how to create the iPhone frame in Adobe Fireworks.
However, José Rivera went one step further and offered the iPhone in Fireworks full vector format150 for free download (download iPhone in editable PNG format151). It should be fully compatible with Fireworks versions CS4/CS5 (and even lower).
18. Nick Isenberg Link
Nick is a Web and graphic designer who lives and works in Boise, Idaho (USA). You may check his portfolio and deviantart profile152, where he publishes some of his illustrations made with Fireworks.
{56} Spiral Notebooks illustration Link
Created in Fireworks CS3, all vector work (download the Fireworks PNG154).
{57} Le Petit Porcelet illustration Link
Created in Fireworks CS3, all vector work (download the Fireworks PNG156).
{58} Safari Dock icon Link
Created in Fireworks CS3, almost 100% vector work (download the Fireworks PNG158).
19. Adobe CS5 Branding Link
Next you'll see more details about the whole Adobe CS5 branding, which — it shouldn't be actually a surprise — was not made in Photoshop, but mainly in Fireworks.
{59} The Adobe CS5 branding Link
{60} The Adobe CS5 branding — the icons Link
{61} The Adobe CS5 branding — the splash screens Link
The Adobe CS5 Branding work was conceived and executed by Ryan Hicks (lead), Shawn Cheris and Dave Nelson. There's a very interesting article at Veerle Pieters's blog162 dedicated to the "making of". I highly recommend reading this as well as Ryan's thoughts163 on the matter too:
Producing assets for nearly a hundred separate software products takes enormous discipline. Discipline in what a few people can commit to executing in terms of fancy design, and discipline in coordinating and scheduling a hundred separate engineering development cycles and their deadlines. And to keep things interesting, Dave bails just before our production schedule was set to kick off. Shawn and I are now an army of two.
Our survival was dependent on the carefully-hewn master files we created for all the hand-built primary assets such as app icons and splash screens. The files leveraged clever layer structures and the attributes management Adobe Fireworks does best.
We have become, in so many words, an outrageously efficient icon factory, pumped up on caffeine, razor sharp pixels, and a couple AIR apps.
CS5 is my third iteration of Adobe's product identity system. The project was one of the most enjoyable and satisfying I've had in my nearly seven years of working at Macromedia/Adobe.
All splash screens and many of the icons of the CS5 apps were made in Fireworks — and most of them exist in various formats including .fw.png and .ai.
So, how good is Fireworks for Web design? Link
Fireworks is a solid application for creating Web graphics and as John Nack164 from Adobe Photoshop team says: "Photoshop's vector shapes & layer effects (strokes, gradients, etc.) are mainstays of Web & mobile design work, but they haven't gotten updated in a while. If the Photoshop team were to improve this area of the app, what improvements would you find the most important?"
John then lists all features that could probably be added to the next version of Photoshop (CS6?). Let's take a look at his list — I have marked the features that are proposed to be included in the next version of Photoshop but already exist in Adobe Fireworks165 (version CS5 or even lower) in italics.
- Enable "real" vector shapes (stroke & fill directly editable, without reliance on layer effects or a dialog box).
- Support dashed— and dotted—line strokes.
- Enable smart shapes — preserve corner roundness when scaling rounded rectangles; support other parameterized shapes (e.g. stars with an adjustable number of points; lines with arrowheads).
- Make various layer effects enhancements — apply effects at the layer group level?; re-order effects; duplicate effects (e.g. apply multiple strokes per layer); enable panel-based editing of effects (instead of relying on a dialog box); add/edit effects on multiple selected layers at once; make graphical styles "live" (i.e. if edit the style definition, all styled objects update).
- Enable layer search (i.e. type to filter by layer name or attributes).
- Improve snap-to-pixel behavior.
- Improve text rendering (this is possible in Fireworks with the ClearType Styles166 extension).
- Export text & graphical styles as CSS* (this is already partially possible in Fireworks – it can export a Web graphic design as HTML/CSS code and also can quickly "translate" some objects' properties into CSS via extensions such as "Copy CSS Dimensions to Clipboard").
- Support guide sets (e.g. for grid layouts).
- Support linked files (i.e. edit one file to update buttons, icons, etc. across multiple PSDs).
As can be seen, almost all future features for Photoshop proposed by John Nack are actually existing features in Fireworks and are used by many designers today. It'll be certainly interesting to keep tabs on how Adobe develops both Photoshop and Fireworks in the future – and what designers will then achieve.
Conclusion Link
Adobe Fireworks is a powerful graphic design application that is used by many professional Web and graphic designers, UX designers, illustrators and visual artists. In the right hands, it can produce beautiful results with remarkable speed. You have seen some complex vector designs, various drawing techniques, logos and icons and simply cool illustrations.
Perhaps what is the nicest thing about Fireworks is that if you plan to create artwork in Fireworks, your project development is not limited to Fireworks only. You can easily import multi-layered .psd files, .ai files with multiple artboards and even visual assets from Flash. And then in the other direction, from Fireworks, you can transfer graphic assets to Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash Professional and Flash Catalyst. You can combine the Fireworks speed, vector power, Pages/Master Pages, Symbols and ease-of-use together with the options of both Photoshop and Illustrator and achieve all-round results, faster and with great flexibility.
In my personal opinion, there exists much more than 7 reasons to prefer Fireworks to Photoshop167. While Fireworks may be not better than Photoshop168, when it comes to designing for the Web and screen, it is faster, easier and can produce results as good as those that can be achieved in Photoshop, Illustrator, and other modern graphic design programs. Fireworks is very close to the real Web design application169 that Jason Santa Maria was discussing not long ago (although for this to happen, Fireworks would need much more intensive development from the part of Adobe).
{62} Adobe Photoshop CS5 splash screen Link
And there you have our final illustration. Next time you start Photoshop CS5, you may ponder that the "blue fish" splash screen you see was actually created in Fireworks — the lightweight, versatile design application that is responsible for most of the artwork across the Adobe CS5 suite.
If you think that I may have missed someone's truly great (Fireworks) work, please let us know in the comments, thanks!
Further Reading Link
- Using The Texture Panel In Adobe Fireworks171
- iOS Prototyping With TAP And Adobe Fireworks (Part 1)172
- Interactive Prototypes And Time-Savers With Adobe Fireworks173
Footnotes Link
- 1 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/05/22/adobe-fireworks-is-it-worth-switching-to-cs5/
- 2 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2013/12/present-future-adobe-fireworks/
- 3 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/07/useful-adobe-fireworks-resources-extensions-part1/
- 4 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/10/switching-adobe-fireworks-sketch-10-tips-tricks/
- 5 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/fireworks-cs5-splash-screen.fullscreen1.png
- 6 http://www.adobe.com/devnet/fireworks/articles/fireworks_web_design_css.html
- 7 http://www.adobe.com/devnet/fireworks/articles/standards_compliant_design.html
- 8 http://www.webdesignerwall.com/general/fireworks-vs-photoshop-compression/
- 9 http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2010/08/do-you-care-about-png-8-with-transparency.html
- 10 http://www.craftymind.com/2010/09/01/png-compression-on-iphoneipad/
- 11 http://www.adobe.com/devnet/fireworks/articles/prototype_iphone_app.html
- 12 http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/about/stencils/fireworks.html
- 13 http://jcorrea.es/2008/08/07/iphone-gui-as-rich-symbols-for-fireworks/
- 14 http://help.adobe.com/en_US/fireworks/cs/extend/
- 15 http://johndunning.com/fireworks/about/TweetFire
- 16 http://www.idux.com/
- 17 http://www.fluid.com/
- 18 http://twitter.com/DaveHogue
- 19 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/compass.fullsize.jpg
- 20 http://vector.tutsplus.com/tutorials/icon-design/how-to-create-a-golden-vector-compass-in-illustrator/
- 21 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/compass.fw_.png
- 22 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/quartz-watches.fullsize.png
- 23 http://www.uniformwares.com/product_info.php?cPath=1&products_id=28#pic25
- 24 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/quartz-watches.fw_.png
- 25 http://theoatmeal.com/comics
- 26 http://keepinspiring.me/2010/01/interview-with-matthew-inman/
- 27 http://web.archive.org/web/20110810065019/http://keepinspiring.me/2010/01/interview-with-matthew-inman/
- 28 http://theoatmeal.com/comics
- 29 http://theoatmeal.com/comics/coffee
- 30 http://theoatmeal.com/comics/beer
- 31 http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell
- 32 http://theoatmeal.com/comics/working_home
- 33 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/coffee-duck.fullscreen.jpg
- 34 http://0at.org/blog/coffee_duck
- 35 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/coffee-duck-screenshot.fullscreen.jpg
- 36 http://0at.org/portfolio
- 37 http://www.wired.com/
- 38 http://rhworks.com/
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| 1805
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Lungtok Gyatso (1805–1815), also spelled Lungtog Gyatso and Luntok Gyatso, was the 9th Dalai Lama of Tibet.
Lungtok Gyatso was born in 1805 near Choekor Monastery in Dan Chokhor, a small village in the historical region of Kham to Tenzin Choekyong and Dhondup Dolma.[1]
In 1807, he was recognized as the reincarnation of the Eighth Dalai Lama and was escorted to Lhasa with great ceremony. In 1810, he was enthroned at the Potala Palace on the Golden Throne of the Ganden Po-drang Government. He took his novice vows from the Panchen Lama, who gave him the name Lungtok Gyatso. This same year the elderly Regent, Ta-task Nga-wang Gon-po died and the De-mo Tul-ku Nga-wang Lo-zang Tub-ten Jig-me Gya-tso (d. 1819) was appointed to replace him.[2]
- "The English explorer Thomas Manning, who reached Lhasa in 1812, described his meeting with the 9th Dalai Lama, who was seven years old at the time, in rhapsodic terms. 'The lama's beautiful and interesting face engrossed all my attention,' Manning wrote. 'He had the simple, unaffected manners of a well-educated princely child. His face was, I thought, affectingly beautiful. He was of a gay and cheerful disposition. I was extremely affected by this interview with the lama. I could have wept through strangeness of sensation.'"[3]
He served only briefly owing to his death at the age of 9 in 1815. "The entire nation was plunged into sorrow", which lasted until the recognition of the new reincarnation eight years later.[4]
- "During the period of the short-lived Dalai Lamas—from the Ninth to the Twelfth incarnations—the Panchen was the lama of the hour, filling the void left by the four Dalai Lamas who died in their youth."[5]
- ↑ "His Holiness the Ninth Dalai Lama, Lungtok Gyatso". Namgyal Monastery. http://namgyalmonastery.org/hhdl/hhdl9/. Retrieved 9 October 2009.
- ↑ Khetsun Sangpo Rinpoche. (1982). "Life and times of the Eighth to Twelfth Dalai Lamas." The Tibet Journal. Vol. VII Nos. 1 & 2. Spring/Summer 1982, p. 48.
- ↑ Brown, Mick. The Dance of 17 Lives: The Incredible True Story of Tibet's 17th Karmapa, pp. 28-29. (2004) Bloomsbury Publishing, New York, N.Y. ISBN 1-58234-177-X.
- ↑ Khetsun Sangpo Rinpoche. (1982). "Life and times of the Eighth to Twelfth Dalai Lamas." The Tibet Journal. Vol. VII Nos. 1 & 2. Spring/Summer 1982, p. 49.
- ↑ The Fourteen Dalai Lamas: A Sacred Legacy of Reincarnation, p. 175. Glenn H. Mullin. Clear Light Publishers. Santa Fe, New Mexico. ISBN 1-57416-092-3.
Further reading
- Mullin, Glenn H. (2001). The Fourteen Dalai Lamas: A Sacred Legacy of Reincarnation, pp. 342–353. Clear Light Publishers. Santa Fe, New Mexico. ISBN 1-57416-092-3.
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Every year, ∼450,000 individuals in the United States die suddenly of cardiac arrhythmia. We identified a variant of the cardiac sodium channel gene SCN5A that is associated with arrhythmia in African Americans (P = 0.000028) and linked with arrhythmia risk in an African-American family (P = 0.005). In transfected cells, the variant allele (Y1102) accelerated channel activation, increasing the likelihood of abnormal cardiac repolarization and arrhythmia. About 13.2% of African Americans carry the Y1102 allele. Because Y1102 has a subtle effect on risk, most carriers will never have an arrhythmia. However, Y1102 may be a useful molecular marker for the prediction of arrhythmia susceptibility in the context of additional acquired risk factors such as the use of certain medications.
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Aaron Voigt is a cat with a penchant for the past — specifically the 1950s. He occasionally styles his black hair into a pompadour worthy of Buddy Holly himself and bombs around on a vintage beach cruiser, and his workshop is adorned with tiki heads and filled with the distortion-filled strains of surf rock. Voigt's fondness for the Eisenhower era also is illustrated in the retro-futuristic look of his handmade robot creations, which resemble the snazzy Space Age automatons seen in sci-fi flicks of that period, right down to the myriad dials, gears, and colorful bulbs adorning box-like chests and heads. Many of the Mesa artist's works are rectangular in nature, owing to the fact that Voigt usually fashions each robot's body from square-shaped steel tubing. After welding the pieces together, he adds various voltmeters, springs, knobs from vintage appliances, and discarded antiques to give each 'bot its own personality. "I'm also trying to mimic the old tin toys of the 1950s," Voigt says. "So if I can find something that just looks right and mount it so it looks believable as a robot component, or it adds to the robot look, I'll use it." He often spends entire days in his workshop cranking out dozens of pieces, which has led to a cramped and cluttered situation where a few of his own creations, which can get fairly heavy, have fallen off shelves and conked him on the foot. So much for Isaac Asimov's law about robots being verboten from causing harm to humans.
We'll admit to being influenced by repeated viewings of Wes Anderson's The Fantastic Mr. Fox on Blu-Ray, but still, we swear we've seen the mythic "Tempe Fox" prancing around the Broadmor neighborhood. He's usually spotted just out of the corner of our eye, always leading to the distinct possibility that we're imagining him completely. But forget reason — of all Arizona's fabled creatures (chupacabra, hoof-man, the Bigfoot in the Apache/Sitgreaves Forest), the fox seems the friendliest (not to mention most plausible). His bushy tail catches the eye, but he's quickly gone before you can whip out your camera phone. It sounds crazy, but we've even heard of one intrepid photographer who snapped off a couple shots, only to have the mysterious fox not show up in the pictures at all. A spirit vision, perhaps? The best part of this "legend," of course, is that it's absolutely true. The old neighborhoods near the ASU Tempe campus really have become home in recent years to several foxes. Residents theorize that they feed on roof rats and hang out near the George Ditch off College Avenue and 14th Street. Tempe officials confirm they're there, and no one knows how it happened. We're glad to know the Tempe Fox is real. (And that we're not crazy!)
Know any good jokes about Arizona State University? The folks in Hollywood certainly do, as Tinsel Town has dispensed a few zingers at ASU's expense over the years, all of which have been dead-on and absolutely hilarious. After all, there's plenty about the school to poke fun at, including its oft-ridiculed status as one of America's top party schools and its student body's reputation for preferring slamming beers to hitting the books. For instance, 30 Rock's resident blowhard Jack Donaghy (played by Alec Baldwin) stated in a 2010 episode that "a parent is the one person who thinks their [kids are] smart, even when they go to Arizona State." Zing. Such a diss was child's play to the sort of lampooning that took place last fall when Daniel Tosh filmed an entire episode of his popular Comedy Central show at ASU.It was part of his Tosh.0 College Campus Invasion and featured segments in which the acerbic comedian satirized frat boys and their tendency to hit on drunk girls (at Casey Moore's, no less), encouraged Sun Devil hotties to consume peppers and other spicy substances, and got naked in front of a biology class. Probably the most hilarious (or embarrassing) bit for ASU students was a highlight reel of a "Tweet and Greet," in which an endless stream of student traded insults with the Tosh, who got a choice quip about how "There's a lot of chlamydia here, apparently." At least he didn't refer to the university as "the Harvard of date rape," like those rascals over at The Daily Show.
In 2012, Frank Ocean made waves by coming out on his Tumblr page, gently shattering the glass ceiling in the notoriously homophobic circles of hip-hop and R&B. But he did more than that with the song "Thinking Bout You." He finally let the rest of the country know that it doesn't rain much here. "It usually doesn't rain in Southern California / Much like Arizona / My eyes don't shed tears/ But, boy, they bawl when I'm thinking 'bout you," Ocean sings with achingly gorgeous tone. In all seriousness, Channel Orange, Ocean's full-length, major label debut is one of the year's finest, and "Thinking Bout You," which effortlessly recalls the perfection of Prince and D'Angelo, is one of the record's most affecting moments. With a cracked falsetto, Ocean croons, "Do you think about me still? Or do you not think so far ahead? 'Cause I've been thinking about forever." It's crushing, a moment of pure soul-rending, and even if Arizona feels like a default rhyme, it's nice to be a part of such an astonishing pop song.
Coming up with a decent band name has never required particular brilliance. Just ask the "greats" — The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, The Smashing Pumpkins. But in the Internet age, there seems to be some sort of "WTF band name" arms race, with bands like fun., oOoOO, Snake! Snake! Snakes!, and Friends all competing to cram in enough punctuation and inscrutable capitalization to make it impossible to find the band in any given search engine. North Dakota — the Tempe-based trio of Michelle Blades, Mo Neuharth, and Emily Hobeheidar — don't have a hard moniker to spell, but it's still tough to find their web presence without a little Facebooking first. The geographical connections to the Midwest aren't made explicit on the trio's debut (there's a song called "Fargo," but also one called "China/Japan") but like their namesake state — so close to Canada that it's almost there — they blur the lines between borders and sounds, toeing the line between righteous indie rock and riot grrl screeds.
The Compound Grill — the music hall/eatery/bar launched by the people behind the annual The McDowell Mountain Music Festival (and the site of the festival since 2010) — may have closed, but there's good news: Its owners plan to continue the festival, which unites indie rockers, local bands, and some of the granola-crunchiest jam bands this side of Bonnaroo for three days of sun and noodling guitar solos. Bully for them — beyond the fact that the festival has hosted bands like Ozomatli, The Flaming Lips, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Fields, and The Carolina Chocolate Drops, it's maintained a spirit of community activism, donating to charities like Ear Candy and institutions like Phoenix Children's Hospital.